WHAT...!?!?!?!?!

if we made a deal to get our hands on zarqawi and money changed hands, i am disgusted beyond all measure... the only rationale i can come up with is that we aren't serious about capturing bin laden and that bush badly needed a bounce in the polls... what else could possibly make sense...?

i certainly hope to god this isn't true, cuz, if it is, it stinks to high heaven... my first reaction is that it may just qualify as the vilest political deed in history...

Al-Qaida leaders sold out Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to the United States in exchange for a promise to let up in the search for Osama bin Laden, the slain militant's wife claimed in an interview with an Italian newspaper.

The woman, identified by La Repubblica as al-Zarqawi's first wife, said al-Qaida's top leadership reached a deal with U.S. intelligence because al-Zarqawi had become too powerful. She claimed Sunni tribes and Jordanian secret services mediated the deal.

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"I think a secret pact was struck whose immediate goal was his death," she told the newspaper. "In return, the American troops promised to ease, at least momentarily, their hunt for bin Laden."

"Al-Qaida is currently especially worried with protecting its charismatic leader," she added.

there's no doubt about it, osama bin laden is george bush's best friend... as long as he's at large, the bush administration can continue to inflate the fear of terrorists and george can remain in the all-powerful position as commander-in-chief of the endless war on terror...

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