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Titolo: Zarqawi? Forse Bush lo ritiene un buon diavolo...

By Jim Miklaszewski
Correspondent
NBC News
Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind
March 2, 2004
With Tuesday's attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to
al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq.
But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration
had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill
Zarqawi himself - but never pulled the trigger.
In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and
members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq,
producing deadly ricin and cyanide.
The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles
and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S.
government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security
Council.
"Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to
support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn't do
 it," said Michael O'Hanlon, military analyst with the Brookings
Institution.
Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in
terrorist attacks in Europe.
The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed
it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq.
"People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam
than to execute the president's policy of preemption against terrorists,"
according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member
Roger Cressey.
In January 2003, the threat turned real. Police in London arrested six
terror suspects and discovered a ricin lab connected to the camp in Iraq.
The Pentagon drew up still another attack plan, and for the third time, the
National Security Council killed it.
Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi's operation was
airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in
Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.
The United States did attack the camp at Kirma at the beginning of the war,
but it was too late - Zarqawi and many of his followers were gone.  "Here's
a case where they waited, they waited too long and now we're suffering as a
result inside Iraq," Cressey added.
And despite the Bush administration's tough talk about hitting the
terrorists before they strike, Zarqawi's killing streak continues today.

 Zarqawi himself - but never pulled the trigger.
Non sei contento che stiano provando a riparare all'errore?
(Tra una distrazione e l'altra, comunque hanno wippato out Saddam. Io
sono abbastanza contento anche di quello)
Tb
-- 
In mancanza di meglio, la risposta migliore rimane: "autodifesa".

 sono abbastanza contento anche di quello)
Gli iracheni, inizialmente, sembravano moderatamente contenti anche loro.
Ora, direi proprio di no. Btw, Saddam con la "guerra al terrorismo" non
c'entrava un accidente, Zarqawi sě.
Namib


A me, Zarqawi mi sa di supereroe ... sai, di quelli di cui tutti parlano, ma 
che nessuno ha mai visto (tipo Ben-Laden).
Crea una personalità, dagli un viso, compi azioni eclatanti, e hai creato un 
mito.
Una dualità bene/male vittima/boia alla Arsenio Lupin che li rende 
affascinanti e odiabili.
La letteratura ei i fumetti ne sono pieni. Una cosa accomuna tutti i 
supereroi : la personalità schizzofrenica senza la quale non sarebbe 
possibile spiegarne le azioni.
Che esistano veramente o no è secondario. Sono incarnati nostro immaginario.
Sono solo "contenitori" di fantasmi e paure.

 Sono solo "contenitori" di fantasmi e paure.
E' un'osservazione giusta (noterai, infatti, che ogni salto ne sale al
proscenio uno, di questi "mostri": Abu Nidal, Carlos, Bin Laden, Saddam,
"Alì il chimico", "la dottoressa Germe", al-Zarqawi; chi sarà il prossimo?).
Infatti, scopo specifico dei miei msg era di dare un minimo di concretezza
storica a quest'uomo, che più che "contenitore" di fantasmi, mi sembra un'
"icona produttrice" di (utili) paure. Utili per il jihad (fatto
geopoliticamente d'importanza relativa) e per la "guerra al terrorismo" (=
ridefinizione della politica militare USA: fatto geopoliticamente
rilevantissimo).
Namib