US Officials: Iraq War Spread bin Laden Ideology

[jamiroguy1]

Spread of Bin Laden Ideology Cited

Iraq Invasion Said To Alter Dynamics Of Local Militants

By Walter Pincus

Washington Post Staff Writer

Sunday, April 4, 2004; Page A13

The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has accelerated the spread of Osama bin Laden's anti-Americanism among once local Islamic militant movements, increasing danger to the United States as the al Qaeda network is becoming less able to mount attacks, according to senior intelligence officials at the CIA and State Department.

At the same time, the Sunni Triangle has become a training ground for foreign Islamic jihadists who are slipping into Iraq to join former Saddam Hussein loyalists to test themselves against U.S. and coalition forces, these officials say.

Islamic militant organizations in places such as North Africa and Southeast Asia, which were previously focused on changing their local country leadership, "have been caught by bin Laden's vision, and poisoned by it . . . they will now look at the U.S., Israel and the Saudis as targets," a senior intelligence official said last week. "That is one manifestation of how bin Laden's views are expanding well beyond Iraq," he said.

J. Cofer Black, the State Department coordinator for counterterrorism and a former head of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, gave the same message to a House International Relations subcommittee last Thursday, saying that bin Laden's "virulent anti-American rhetoric . . . has been picked up by a number of Islamic extremist movements which exist around the globe."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48425-2004Apr3?language=printer

[tasrit]

Originally posted by jamiroguy1

Islamic militant organizations in places such as North Africa and Southeast Asia, which were previously focused on changing their local country leadership, "have been caught by bin Laden's vision, and poisoned by it . . . they will now look at the U.S., Israel and the Saudis as targets," a senior intelligence official said last week. "That is one manifestation of how bin Laden's views are expanding well beyond Iraq," he said.

Don't forget Spain and Morocco. It's a crazy world where we living today. Yesterday some people blow themselves up in Madrid.

[jamiroguy1]

Originally posted by tasrit

Don't forget Spain and Morocco. It's a crazy world where we living today. Yesterday some people blow themselves up in Madrid.

Agreed it's a crazy world we're living in today but hasn't it always been?

[tasrit]

your right...but it was always history or far away