Bush wins the trifecta...

[rodeodance]

i owe the Trifecta comment to another DU member who posted the first story:

Wed Sep-27-06 10:42 PM
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Iraq war 'has radicalised Muslims' (leaked UK MoD)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6110800,00...

Iraq war 'has radicalised Muslims'
Press Association


The war in Iraq has radicalised Muslims and acted as a "recruiting sergeant" for extremists, according to a leaked MoD document.

The report by the Defence Academy - an MoD thinktank - "paints a stark picture of failure" on the war on terror, according to BBC's Newsnight programme which has obtained the report.

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The study said: "The wars in Afghanistan and particularly Iraq have not gone well and are progressing slowly towards an as yet uncertain result.

"The war in Iraq ... has acted as a recruiting sergeant for extremists from across the Muslim world."

It added: "Iraq has served to radicalise an already disillusioned youth and al=Qaeda has given them the will, intent, purpose and ideology to act."

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looks like BushCo hit the trifecta...

- NIE Report
- UN Report
- MoD Report


Wed Sep-27-06 06:26 PM
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Al Qaeda gains recruits from Iraq war: U.N. study Updated at 6:26 PM


By Irwin Arieff

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. report released on Wednesday said the Iraq war provided al Qaeda with a training center and recruits, reinforcing a U.S. intelligence study blaming the conflict for a surge in Islamic extremism.

The report by terrorism experts working for the U.N. Security Council said al Qaeda was playing a central role in the fighting in Iraq as well as inspiring a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, several hundred miles (km) away.

"New explosive devices are now used in Afghanistan within a month of their first appearing in Iraq," said the report. "And while the Taliban have not been found fighting outside Afghanistan/Pakistan, there have been reports of them training in both Iraq and Somalia."

Al Qaeda, it said, "has gained by continuing to play a central role in the fighting (in Iraq) and in encouraging the growth of sectarian violence, and Iraq has provided many recruits and an excellent training ground," it said.

The report said that al Qaeda's influence may soon wane in Iraq, citing some fighters' complaints that they were unhappy to learn upon arriving in the country that they would have to kill fellow Muslims rather than foreign fighters or could serve their cause only as suicide bombers.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060927/wl_nm/security_un_d...

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[babylonsister]

1. The "mush" hasn't won jack-shit. No shit! nt