Posted on 12/15/2003 6:19:31 PM PST by Sonny M
LONDON, DECEMBER 14: The mastermind of the September 2001 attacks in the US, Mohammad Atta, was trained in Baghdad by a Palestinian terrorist at the instance of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, a media report said today.
Atta, who was trained by Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal, visited Baghdad just weeks before the terror attack, The Sunday Telegraph reported. The details of Attas visit are contained in a secret memo, written to Hussein by the former head of Iraqi intelligence service Tahir Jalil Habbush Al-Tikriti, it said.
The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained by the daily is dated July 1, 2001 and provides a short resume of a three-day work programme Atta had undertaken at Nidals base in Baghdad. In the memo, Habbush reports that Atta displayed extraordinary effort and demonstrated his ability to lead the team that would be responsible for attacking the targets that we have agreed to destroy.
Although Iraqi officials refused to disclose how and where they had obtained the document, Ayad Allawi, a member of Iraqs ruling seven-man presidential committee, said the document was genuine.
We are uncovering evidence all the time of Saddams involvement with Al Qaeda, Allawi said. But this is the most compelling piece of evidence that we have found so far. It shows that not only did Saddam have contacts with Al Qaeda, he had contact with those responsible for the September 11 attacks.
All over talk radio, though....
Their instincts are 180 degrees out of phase with their best interests.
I'm astounded by how far some will go out on a limb to express their contempt for Bush when I read it in minor web discussions. But then I see the same stuff coming out of the mouth of their lead candidate.
The rationale for this war is not difficult to comprehend or even genuinely controversial compared to recent US actions. Add in 9/11......
The left is utterly unable to comprehend, to mentally step out of their shoes and see things from another perspective. When that train hits the wall there's a little part of me that's afraid of what their desperation would entail. Not in terms of being unable to combat it, but what that combat will mean to the Republic.
And then making George McGovern and Michael Dukakis look like viable Presidential candidates. :)
More like steel reinforced concrete, I'd say. Of course we won't be able to call them on it by getting together and buying some TV time, when one of the 9 dwarfs or BroomHillary start pulling out the "No Connection" stuff come about September 2nd. The Supreme Court says we can't.
Wasn't Abu Nidal the guy that Ollie North named as the reason his house was security wired back in the eighties? Remember right after 9-11, when the internet rumor mill credited him with naming Osama years in advance, when in fact it was Abu Nidal? Anyone else remember that?
Perhaps he was right after all....
As a matter of fact, you are correct. If you go to snopes.com, they list the urban legend about North and Bin Laden, and also give the real version, which was North speaking about......Abu Nidal.
Based on the history of the left wing in this country, and based on the numerious statements made on left wing websites I have a bad feeling I know how they will react next year after election day. If we are lucky, they will just be demoralized and quit and leave america alone.
That is not likely, I fear that alot of lefty's will go off the deep end, and make accusations that the elections were rigged, thus giving themselves rationalization to commit acts of terror against people, in the misguided belief that they are actually quite popular. Some of these people are showing signs of mental illness, and I think next years election is going to make them go over the edge and start doing alot of rash things.
And thanks to the idiotic Supreme Court decision on the "campaign finance reform' law we can't buy televison air time to counter the networks' passivity on the issue.
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