Baathists and Islamic extremists - six of one, half dozen of the other

I found this at jihadchat.com

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al Qaeda video documents Hussein era training in Northern Iraq

In last months Saddam Hussein praised "militant jihadist Iraq," claimed respsonsibility for terrorism,
An Al-Tikriti (Saddam Hussein's clan) speaking for al Qaeda cell in Europe?

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Hundreds of loyalists and benefactors of Saddam Hussein’s regime have been found working with or for al Qaeda in Iraq
These captures and kills demonstrate the ideological divide between “secular” Baathists and Islamic extremists was not so distant
Many analysts of the insurgency in Iraq are currently debating its makeup and strength, among other things. Regardless of what percentage is currently claiming allegiance to what ideology or group, the past few years of reporting have slowly revealed that at least one deadly aspect of the insurgency in Iraq has been the cooperation of some members of Saddam Hussein's regime (though not all) and Islamic militants, particularly al Qaeda in Iraq.
Below is a list, compiled from a number of media reports over the past few years, of the names and backgrounds of some of those found to have supported or worked for the former Baath Party of Saddam Hussein's Iraq and also al Qaeda. Parts of this list were cited by World Net Daily in a story about postwar links between members of Saddam Hussein's regime and al Qaeda elements in Iraq...

http://regimeofterror.com/archives/2007/07/hundreds_of_loyalists_and_bene/