In 1990, Osama bin Laden called for jihad against Saddam and asked the Saudi government for permission to send jihadists to Iraq to overthrow the dictator. In early 2003, Bin Laden allegedly issued an audio tape calling Saddam an infidel and stating that Iraq’s secular “socialist” government had lost credibility (of course, since Osama was dead for over two years, this supposed audio statement should be dismissed—nonetheless, it is no secret that Wahabbi fanatics such as the late Osama revile secular government and endeavor to replace it in the Muslim world with Sharia law or the “Law of Allah” covering not only religious rituals, but many aspects of day-to-day life, politics, economics, banking, business or contract law, and social issues). Osama desired “the establishment of a castle of the Muslims, a [new] Caliphate” and this would obviously necessitate the removal of secular leaders such as Saddam Hussein.

And yet we are expected to believe the alleged followers of Osama bin Laden, in the guise of Al-Qaa’eda fi Bilaad’ir-Raafidee, or al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, want to kill the judges appointed to convict Saddam and get rid of him. “Iraqi police said they have smashed an al-Qaeda cell plotting to kill the chief judge in charge of building the case against ousted leader Saddam Hussein, whose trial resumes today after a five-week recess,” reports the Mumbai Mirror. Police colonel Anwar Kader told the Mirror “12 members of a cell linked to the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda” were arrested “during a dawn raid on a house in eastern Kirkuk” and “confessed during questioning to planning to kill (chief judge) Raed al-Juhi this week.” Of course, considering the “interrogation” tactics of the Iraqi police (in Basra, for instance, the British showed them how to put electric drills to use on detainees), it is not unusual these “al-Qaeda” suspects confessed to whatever the police wanted.

“Kader said all the suspects were Sunni Arabs from Kirkuk, from Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit or from the restive western province of Al-Anbar.” Now this would make sense if it was reported the Sunnis hailed from the non-al-Qaeda resistance. However, since the resistance (according to the Bushcons and the corporate media) is a pet project of al-Zarqawi, the idiot Jordanian who died years ago in northern Iraq, it stands to reason anybody connected to the resistance is under the thumb of al-Zarqawi and the dead Osama.

On the one hand we are expected to believe al-Zarqawi has declared war on infidel Shia Muslims in Iraq (as he supposedly told us in one of his infamous “internet audiotape” recordings earlier this year) and on the other we are told “al-Qaeda in Iraq” wants to kill a judge tasked with convicting and delivering Saddam the “infidel” to the gallows.

In Bushzarro world, where Saddam “dead-enders” have morphed into wild-eyed al-Qaeda Muslims, you need a scorecard just to keep track of the convoluted twists and turns of the story as the Pentagon and the neocons make it up as they go along.