My bad.
The right guy
met and befriended Bin Laden in 1989 in Afghanistan.
Had confirmed financing from Bin Laden in 1999.
Settle in northern Iraq in 2002.
Early in 2002, there were unverified reports from Afghan Northern Alliance members that Zarqawi had been killed by a missile attack in Afghanistan. Many news sources repeated the claim. Later, Kurdish groups claimed that Zarqawi had not died in the missile strike, but had been severely injured, and went to Baghdad in 2002 to have his leg amputated. On October 7, 2002, the day before Congress voted to give President Bush permission to invade Iraq, Bush gave a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, that repeated this claim as fact. This was one of several of President Bush's primary examples of ways Saddam Hussein had aided, funded, and harbored al-Qaeda.
My point is unchanged.
His connection to al qaeda is never rock solid and there is some speculation that al qaeda dropped the dime on him that lead to his death.
