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Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute
Open Source: Cole with Wright
Here is the transcript of my appearance Monday evening with Lawrence Wright of the New Yorker on Chris Lydon's PRI show, Open Source, to discuss radical Islamism and Iraq after Zarqawi.
posted by Juan Cole @ 6/20/2006 02:01:00 PM
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The U.S. authorities had claimed to have made a great deal of progress in destroying Al Qaeda in Iraq after tracking down and killing Al Zarqawi... Diaries found at Zarqawi's hideout were said to have provided lists of names and other information that had led to hundreds of raids across Iraq on suspected Al Qaeda targets...
Yet, despite the thousands of troops deployed in the search since Friday, along with the aerial drones and aircraft surveillance of the area, these assailants were able to ambush, kidnap, kill and hide the bodies of these two soldiers, and lay boobytraps, without being detected...
Something doesn't add up here...
US authorities went to great lengths to publicize the face and name of Abu Ayyub Al-Masri. He got a more glitzy debut than the ministers of defense or interior!
Three questions:
1) Is there any independent record of the career of this individual? Was he ever cited in the Arabic media or insurgent documents?
2) If the US has such good information, why was he not already eliminated?
3) Have no Iraqi nationals ever been cited as members of "al Qaeda in Iraq"?
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