WASHINGTON – The United States created the myth around Iraq insurgency leader Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi and reality followed, terrorism expert Loretta Napoleoni said.
Zarqawi was born Ahmed Fadil Al Khalayleh in October 1966 in the crime and poverty-ridden Jordanian city of Zarqa. But his myth was born on February 5, 2003, when then-Secretary of State Colin Powell presented to the United Nations the case for war with Iraq.
Napoleoni, the author of Insurgent Iraq, told reporters last week that Powell’s argument falsely exploited Zarqawi to prove a link between then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.
She said that through fabrications of Zarqawi’s status, influence and connections “the myth became the reality” - a self-fulfilling prophecy.
“He became what we wanted him to be. We put him there, not the jihadists,” Napoleoni said.
n 2001, Kurdish officials enlightened the United States about the uninvited Jordanian, said Napoleoni. Jordanian officials, who had still unsolved terrorist attacks, were eager to implicate Zarqawi, she claimed. The little-known militant instantly had fingerprints on most major terrorist attacks after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington. He was depicted in Powell’s speech as a key player in the Qaeda network.
By perpetuating a “terrifying myth” of Zarqawi, the author said, “The United States, Kurds, and Jordanians all won … but jihad gained momentum,” after in-group dissension and US coalition operations had left the core of Qaeda crippled.
The ghost continues to exist in the idiotic amerikan media and their supporters minds, but lets not forget the lies and spin the amerikans created as an excuse to go to iraq was all based on total lies so this news is not surprising the whole world knew the yanks where lying through their teeth from the very beginning!