--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "peterklutz" <peterklutz@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > There's simply no way the Cheney, sorry Bush, administration
would
> > > want to see Al-Qaeda defeated - or the civil war in former
Iraq
> > ended.
> > >
> > I just heard on the news last night that BushCo is funding Sunni
> > groups with ties to Al-Qaeda supposedly to counter the influence
of
> > Shia dominated Iran.
>
> FWIW, according to former deputy secretary of defense
> (in the Reagan administration) Lawrence Korb on MSNBC's
> "Countdown" last night, the money is actually going to
> governments that the administration believes will be
> helpful against Iran, but the administration has no
> control over where the money ends up.
>
> They may have an idea of where some of the money is
> going, in other words, but they aren't just handing
> it over directly to these groups with ties to al Qaeda.
>
> Minor nuance...
>
I was watching the same show, and you are right, the ties to pro-Al-
Qaeda groups was posed as a question or a possibility by KO.
