Al Qaeda in Iraq planned to attack Americans on US soil
by Michael McCullough at 3:03 PM
Repeat after me: there is no al Qaeda in Iraq. There is no al Qaeda in Iraq. Iraq was a peaceful secular country that shunned Islamic terrorists before Chimpy McBushHitlerBurton invaded the country to get all of their oil. Everyone knows that.
Strangely enough, it seems that al Qaeda in Iraq had plans to attack the US on our own soil. ABC must be smoking crack because we all know that it was Bush and the Jooz, not al Qaeda, who brought down the World Trade Centers:
Mimicking the hijackers who executed the Sept. 11 attacks, insurgents reportedly tied to al Qaeda in Iraq considered using student visas to slip terrorists into the United States to orchestrate a new attack on American soil.
Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, recently testified that documents captured by coalition forces during a raid of a safe house believed to house Iraqi members of al Qaeda six months ago “revealed [AQI] was planning terrorist operations in the U.S.”
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Sources tell ABC News that the plot may have involved moving between 10 and 20 suspects believed to be affiliated with al Qaeda in Iraq into the United States with student visas — the same method used by the 19 al Qaeda terrorists who struck American targets on Sept. 11.
U.S. officials now require universities to closely track foreign nationals who use student visas to study in the United States. University officials must report international students who fail to arrive on campus or miss class regularly.
In August, the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement alerted intelligence agencies and state and local law enforcement about 11 Egyptian students who had failed to report to their classes at Montana State University. The students were ultimately apprehended.
Still, despite the heightened precautions, some security analysts fear that skilled terrorists — handpicked because of their clean records and because they are carefully trained — could still slip through an academic setting.
The plot was discovered six months ago, roughly the same time that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed by coalition forces. Sources tell ABC News that the suspects involved in the effort to launch the U.S. attack were closely associated with Zarqawi.
The plan also came only months after Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s No. 2, had requested that Zarqawi attempt an attack inside the United States.
Take a look at the poll associated with the ABC story. Almost half the people believe that Iraq never had any connection to the real enemy. Repeat a lie often enough — as I did in the first two paragraphs — and a significant amount of people will believe it.
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