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The New Iraq-Al Qaeda Link

January 24, 2007 - 3:31 pm - by Richard Miniter

Al Qaeda was planning a major attack on several American cities in the “summer or September of 2007,” according to one intelligence official.

The attacks were approved by al Qaeda’s Shura Council (its executive board) and the cell of 19 “students” had Google Earth images of potential targets. The terrorists planned to use conventional explosives, according to the New York Sun’s star reporter Eli Lake.

Now for the kicker: the attack was disrupted in Iraq, following a raid on a safe house last summer.

So yes Iraq is part of the war on terror and fighting them there makes us safer here. Case closed?

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  1. 1. Mac Osmer

    What is going to awaken the American public as to what we are fighting? I just finished your DISINFORMATION and am lending it to another.
    Is it possible that the anti-Bush movement is being orchestrated by al Qaeda cells here in the US?

    January 29, 2007 - 12:39 am   Link to this Comment