Hitch, Whom May Or May Not Have Supported Kerry

Hitchens on al-Zarqawi:

Possibly injured as he escaped the collapse of the Taliban regime, he seems to have gone to Iran before showing up in Baghdad a few months before the Coalition did.
During that time, according to the Jordanians, he got hold of nerve gas and chemical weapon shells with which to try to blow up Jordan's security services HQ.
He also helped launch a mini-war against the Kurdish leadership in northern Iraq, who were then living outside Saddam Hussein's direct control.
His organisation was then called Ansar al-Islam, or fighters for Islam. It has since mutated to its newly-minted name "al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia". This coincided with a recent website proclamation of loyalty to bin Laden.
It seems probable it was actually more like a rival bid to take over a world-wide franchise.

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