Was al Zarqawi Real or a CIA Creation?
by James Buchanan
If you have a tendency to watch the news unquestioningly, you probably think that al Zarqawi was a real person and that he was killed in a recent air attack. He was mentioned dozens if not hundreds of times in the last three years and somehow our military could not find this man even though we occupied all of Iraq and found a deck of Iraqi bigshots including Saddam himself. How much proof of his existence do we really have? Most details of his alleged existence were fed to the media by the Pentagon. Mysterious couriers (who could easily have been CIA operatives) would drop off messages to al Jazeera supposedly from the mystery man. The Pentagon has now announced his death and that he had been identified by his DNA. (By the way, where exactly did the Pentagon get al Zarqawi’s DNA?)
A writer on one website asks “Do you believe that there is actually such a person as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi? Or has he been ‘created’ by the Pentagon to distract from the fact that Iraq is a massive failure? When we were being pushed into this illegal war, the administration made a big deal about the so-called ‘link’ between Saddam and Al Qaeda validating it with the statement that al-Zarqawi was fitted with an artificial leg in Baghdad and lived and worked in Al Qaeda training camps in the northern Kurdish areas. However, the newly redesigned al-Zarqawi doesn’t seem to have a bum leg. Even some FOX News guests have attempted to explain away this obvious discrepancy. A 17-page letter, purportedly intercepted last year from a deal Al Qaeda courier and allegedly written by al-Zarqawi, has still not been verified by certified document examiners. Yet the media treats it as if it was thoroughly and publicly vetted. Last April, just prior to the first Fallujah stand-off, independent reporter Dahr Jamail reported that the average Iraqi didn’t believe in the existence of al-Zarqawi.” (more…)