Saturday, October 09, 2004
NY Times catches up to 201k.com...four months later.
After reading this article from tomorrow's Times, readers may want to revisit the www.201k.com entry for June 23, 2004, detailing the media's complicity in this farce.
MYSTERY MAN
Who Is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?
By DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: October 10, 2004
Who is Mr. Zarqawi? Is he Al Qaeda's point man in Iraq, as the Bush administration has repeatedly argued since weeks before the invasion of Iraq? Or, as some European and Middle East intelligence officials argue, is he a staunch rival of Mr. bin Laden's network whose importance has been exaggerated by the United States in an attempt to dramatize a link between Al Qaeda and the deposed regime of Saddam Hussein?
There is no dispute that Mr. Zarqawi has brazenly led a campaign of car bombings, mortar attacks, kidnappings and beheadings in Iraq, asserting his responsibility for the devastating attack in August 2003 on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.
But is Mr. Zarqawi responsible for "most of the major car bombings that have killed or maimed thousands of people," as Mr. Cheney charged at the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday?
He may not be quite the prolific terrorist mastermind that the Bush administration claims.
