Posted on 10/05/2004 12:08:59 PM PDT by mrplind
Anyone know why their site is down? http://www.cnsnews.com I can't get it to come up. They are the organization that broke the Iraq-al Qaeda link story yesterday morning. Maybe they got so many page views their servers crashed. Anyone got any info???
Your Link is working. Try again.
server stress
if you say so, i still cant get it to load
i guess...geez...wonder how many page views they are getting today. ... the world is always 24 hours behind us here at FR, eh?
I'm not getting it either.
Actually it may be because they were ahead getting documents and reporting the following...
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archive\200410\SPE20041004a.html
Iraqi Documents Show Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties
Scott Wheeler, CNSNews.com
Monday, Oct. 4, 2004
Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al-Qaida, to target Americans.
The documents demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders.
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One of the Iraqi memos contains an order from Saddam for his intelligence service to support terrorist attacks against Americans in Somalia. The memo was written nine months before U.S. Army Rangers were ambushed in Mogadishu by forces loyal to a warlord with alleged ties to al-Qaida.
Seriously though... They are probably getting a lot of traffic on their find.
I had to try your link another 10 times before I was able to get back to the site a second time. Traffic must be extrmely heavy.
probably just inundated with "hits" especially with the piece exposing the connection with the terrorists & Saddam Hussein and his possession of WMD's...
traffic is extremely heavy..i am on a T-1 line and it is taking forever to load ... people are getting the news, which is good, hopefully!
Other then for a few seconds to get it loaded I had no problem. It must have been your server. it happens sometimes
Note from the site on the 42 pages
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Journalistic Methodology Used to Report Details of Saddam's Terror Ties
By David Thibault
CNSNews.com Information Services
October 04, 2004
Forty-two pages of photocopied official Iraqi Intelligence Service documents, some hand-written and some typed in 1993, serve as the basis for Scott Wheeler's article, entitled, "Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties." The memos reflect communication between the Iraqi Intelligence Service and Saddam Hussein, by way of his top assistant, the secretary to the president. Tables indicating the Iraqi regime's possession of mustard gas and anthrax in the summer of 2000 are included in the documents, as is a list of 92 individuals believed to have been trained inside Iraq for terrorism operations.
-- Wheeler obtained documents from a longstanding, reliable source who had provided unassailed information for articles previously published. The source is a senior U.S. government official, but not a political appointee and demanded anonymity before furnishing the documents and speaking with CNSNews.com about their importance. At no time in the investigation for this article were the Bush administration, the Bush re-election campaign, the Republican National Committee, the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry or the Democratic National Committee consulted.
-- Two translators, working separately and independently of each other, translated the Arabic documents into English for CNSNews.com.
-- There are no hand-writing samples to which the documents can be compared for forensic analysis and authentication. However, three additional experts, a former weapons inspector with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) who demanded anonymity before speaking with CNSNews.com; Bruce Tefft, a retired CIA counter-terrorism official with heavy experience dealing with Iraq; and Laurie Mylroie, Iraq expert and advisor to then-1992 presidential candidate Bill Clinton on the subject, were asked to evaluate the Iraqi intelligence documents in a double-blind manner. All said the documents comport with the format, style and content of other Iraqi documents from that era known to be genuine. Each of the experts concluded that the documents represent strong evidence that Saddam Hussein maintained extensive ties to terrorist groups including al Qaeda and that he possessed weapons of mass destruction (mustard gas and anthrax).
-- To protect against the Iraqi intelligence documents being altered or misrepresented on the Internet, CNSNews.com has published only the first of the 42 pages in Arabic, along with the English translation. Credentialed journalists and counter-terrorism experts seeking to view the Iraqi Intelligence Service documents and their English translations may make an appointment to visit CNSNews.com headquarters in Alexandria, Va. by first telephoning Managing Editor David Thibault at 703-683-9733.
i wonder how many journalists are flying to VA today
Not many, I suspect!
May have something to do with this story: “60 Hospitals Cancelled Due to New Health Law” You can read the story on John Dennis’s website if it hasn’t crashed too.
http://www.johndennis2010.com/blog/2010/april/report-60-hospitals-cancelled-due-new-health-law
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