Bush Turned Down Chances To Kill Zarqawi
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Courtesy Of: ABC News Online
Monday, May 1, 2006

A former top CIA spy says the United States deliberately turned down several opportunities to kill terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi in the lead-up to the Iraq war.

Mike Scheuer headed the CIA's Bin Laden Unit for six years before resigning in 2004.

He says a plan to destroy Zarqawi's training camp in Kurdistan was abandoned for diplomatic reasons.

"The reasons the Intelligence Service got for not shooting Zarqawi was simply that the President and the National Security Council decided it was more important not to give the Europeans the impression we were gunslingers," he said.

"Mr. Bush had Zarqawi in his sights for almost every day for a year before the invasion of Iraq and he didn't shoot because they were wining and dining the French in an effort to get them to assist us in the invasion of Iraq."

The full story will air on Four Corners tonight on ABC Television.

Source:
http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1627197.htm