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October 13, 2005

Zarqawi Letter a Fake?

Posted by Eric at 8:51 pm. Filed under: General

Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, al Qaeda’s spokesman (now there’s something for the ol’ resume), says that the Zarqawi letter is a fake.

But “spokesman for the U.S. director of national intelligence, John Negroponte, said top officials in the U.S. government are confident the letter is real.”

So who you gonna believe? al Qaeda? Or the U.S. Government? Which side a given news outlet defaults to, who they assume by default must be truthful, will be quite telling.

Watch this one unfold.

UPDATE: John at Powerline has similar thoughts.

It will be interesting to see whether American liberals, embarrassed by the contents of Zawahiri’s correspondence, will join with al Qaeda in claiming that the U.S. military faked the letter.

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