[Rhodes22-list] Political question for Mr. Effros

[Bill Effros]

Chris,

My recollection is similar to yours, however, as I know you're aware, it 
has been difficult to obtain an Al Qaeda membership list.

Also, the Western press spends a long time before its standardizes the 
transliterated spellings of these Arabic names, so it is virtually 
impossible to Google them.  As a result, most of us tend to jumble all 
of these guys together without really knowing who is who.

Here's my recollection, although it is quite possible that I am jumbling 
together several different individuals.

As I remember it, somebody opened a school for terrorists on the Iraqi 
border so far from anywhere that even Saddam couldn't get his hands on 
him.  He wrote a letter to Osama who basically blew him off.  We bombed 
the camp during the invasion.  Then, al-Zarqawi started popping up 
effectively all over Iraq.  It seems to me his group had a different 
name at this point.  He then petitioned Osama for permission to use the 
Al Qaeda brand name -- sort of like a franchise.  Osama agreed.

I also heard the petty criminal in Jordan story.

Are all these stories about the same guy?  I really don't know.  What's 
more, you've always got to wonder where these stories are coming from.  
Everybody is so busy demonizing everybody else, that at some point you 
totally lose track of who said what.

Bill Effros

Chris Geankoplis wrote:

>Just a question Al-Z,
>                                Does any know for sure when Al-Z joined
>Al-Qaeda?  As I recall he was a petty criminal in Jordan until after the
>invasion and then went to Iraq.  That is my recollection but I can't find
>any actual documentation so am reluctant to present it as fact.  Anybody
>know the score?
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>Chris G
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>>Ed,
>>Me thinks you are jumping time lines.....by several years.
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