Apologies if someone else already diaried this. This is my first post. Bush and Co. now evidently have two high-level intelligence bombshells to deal with. The United Nations has weighed in with their assessment of the impact of the Iraq occupation on training and recruitment opportunities for al-Qaeda and the Taliban. And it doesn't sound a damned thing like anything Chimpy is telling us. This just in, courtesy of Reuters:
A U.N. report released on Wednesday said the Iraq war provided al Qaeda with a training centre and recruits, reinforcing a U.S. intelligence study blaming the conflict for a surge in Islamic extremism.
There's more...
New explosive devices are now used in Afghanistan within a month of their first appearing in Iraq," said the report. "And while the Taliban have not been found fighting outside Afghanistan/Pakistan, there have been reports of them training in both Iraq and Somalia.
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Al Qaeda, it said, "has gained by continuing to play a central role in the fighting (in Iraq) and in encouraging the growth of sectarian violence, and Iraq has provided many recruits and an excellent training ground," it said.
The "clunk" you just heard was the other boot dropping, I think. Dems obviously need to pounce on this immediately.
Sorry for all the copy and paste. I hope the three-paragraph rule about fair use still applies. Had to get this out.
Full text of the article here:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/...