Here's your al Qaeda!

DIPLOMATIC CABLES 07/30/2005

A number of US military-contractor incidents have taken place in and around Baghdad International Airport.
WASHINGTON, DC AND TASHKENT -- July 30, 2005 -- As first reported here on July 8, relations between Washington and Tashkent finally boiled over after evidence that Pentagon special operations teams were involved in the Islamist revolt against President Islam Karimov's government in the town of Andijan on May 17. On July 29, Tashkent formally evicted the United States from its airbase at Karshi-Khanabad, also known as "K2." The Pentagon was given 180 days to evacuate all personnel, aircraft, and equipment from the base, which had been used by the United States since the Afghan war broke out following 911. The State Department was apparently blindsided by the abrupt Uzbek decision. It planned to send a diplomat to Tashkent on August 2 to negotiate the base's future. However, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had already decided to scrap K2 after he secured continued basing rights in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The Uzbek media has been abuzz with revelations that Pentagon special operations teams secretly met in Afghanistan with Tohir Yoldashev and members of his Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a group the U.S. State Department considers a terrorist organization allied to "Al Qaeda." The meetings were reported to have occurred before and after the Andijan revolt, which was blamed on IMU forces. The US-IMU meetings in Afghanistan were also referenced in an article in Asia Times by India's former ambassador to Uzbekistan and Turkey, M. K. Bhadrakumar.
The Uzbek government obviously believes the Pentagon has been dealing with terrorist groups and decided to deny the Americans a base from which they might be using to foment Islamist terrorist operations in Uzbekistan and in surrounding countries.
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Originally posted by IAF101
Well Technically, Al-Qaeda the name is given by the US to a group of Mujahideen fighters that fought in the Afgan uprising. It was basically a file called The Umbrella- which translates to Al-Qaeda.

The late Abu Ebeida El-Banashiri established the training camps for our mujahedeen against Russia's terrorism. We used to call the training camp al Qaeda [meaning "the base" in English]. And the name stayed.
CNN

Although "al-Qaeda" is the name of the organization used in popular culture, the organization rarely uses the name to formally refer to itself. The origin of the name "al-qaeda" is disputed; some allege it was coined by the United States government based on the name of a computer file of bin Laden's that listed the names of contacts he had made at the MAK in the Bait al-Ansar guesthouse during the late 1980s. Bin Laden himself says of the origin, saying "We used to call the training camp al Qaeda [meaning "the base" in English]. And the name stayed." [2]en.wikipedia.org...

Originally posted by Souljah
AHhhhh... Sure Brings Back Memories of the Good Old Cold War and the Russian Invasion of Afganistan, when Arab Freedom Fighters were Allies with the USA and Rambo III was in the Movies Theatres.

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Originally posted by EastCoastKid
Whooz that? Chirac?

Back then Saddam was the west's man. That means UK, USA and France. We are the one's who put him in place and backed him, until the Gulf War. Then all of a sudden he became some big boogy man. It's amazing how much power over the minds of the masses the mainstream media has.

Originally posted by IAF101
This site is basically a BIASED Democrat mouth peice.
Sorry EastCoastKid Dont buy it!

Originally posted by C0le
Old buddies are so cute together, look at those smiles.



Love is in the air.


[edit on 31-7-2005 by C0le]

Originally posted by IAF101
Secondly, this has nothing to do with the cold war.

Originally posted by EastCoastKid
Whooz that? Chirac?

Back then Saddam was the west's man. That means UK, USA and France. We are the one's who put him in place and backed him, until the Gulf War. Then all of a sudden he became some big boogy man. It's amazing how much power over the minds of the masses the mainstream media has.