al-Zarqawi or al-Invention? By William Bowles

6 July 2004

Today’s Independent (06/7/04) has a front page story titled “A video nasty: Terror chief shows off his deadly work” and is about yet another “foreign-led” group of “militants” purportedly headed by the one-legged Jordanian and ‘right-hand man’ of Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Yet the story presents not a single shred of evidence to support the title nor if the mono-pedal perpetrator even exists, aside that is from ‘received opinion’, largely that of US intelligence sources and we know just how reliable they are.

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Information Clearing House Archive Part 1 July 6 2004

July 2004 — Information Clearing House

[I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB]

Date: 6 Jul 2004

1 YEAR & 83 DAYS … AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ.

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Car bomb in town northeast of Baghdad kills 13 :

A car bomb exploded Tuesday in a town northeast of Baghdad, killing 13 people who were attending a wake for the victims of a previous attack, hospital officials said.
www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4282084,00.html

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