al qaeda in iraq: fiction or fiction?

Miguel:

"I just heard on Air America a well informed reporter whose been in Iraq for a while (his first name is Chris and he writes for Time Magazine, but I forgot his last name) say that the al Qaeda/Green Zone plot is most likely a lot of bull@#$%, that's what was really going on there was some turf battle within the Iraqi Defense and Interior ministries, and one side accused the other of hiring 'al-Qaeda' members.

Can we now say, unambiguously, that we should take any report about 'al Qaeda in Iraq' with a gigantic grain of salt? The reporter whose been pushing this story most is Lara Logan of CBS. She's from South Africa originally and ought to know better."

lol - i've been saying it loudly and unambiguously for years. zarqawi doesn't exist.

i love the idea of the iraqi ministries running around trying to sign up alqaeda folks. i suspect that they demand proof of al qaeda membership - perhaps a copy of the membership form, like the one padilla signed - although it would probably have to be countersigned by zarqawi - i can imagine the good folks at cnn saying 'we are waiting on forensic tests from the FBI lab for proof that it is zarqawi's signature - but in the meantime, some people here in the office say that it looks like other things which were supposedly signed by zarqawi