Bush's al-Qaeda link to Iraq insurgency a hoax

The Bush administration has been hoodwinked again.  The U.S. military has determined that the "Islamic State of Iraq", an al-Qaeda insurgent group used by George Bush as an excuse to keep U.S. troops in Iraq for peacekeeping purposes, is actually an al-Qaeda propaganda hoax, and that it exists only in cyberspace.  The "leader", Omar al-Baghdadi, is actually an actor used by al-Qaeda for fake promotional video and news reports, according to the Army.  The fictional group was invented to convince terrorist recruits and the U.S. and Iraqi governments that al-Qaeda's insurgency presence in Iraq is greater than it is.

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