Saddam and 9/11

Frontpage Magazine ^ | 1/8/2004 | Jamie Glazov

[Peach]

New evidence re links between terrorists and OKC bombing.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1030849/posts

[Peach]

Middle Eastern terrorists seem to be quite enamored of the OKC bombing; al Qaeda terrorists and their supporters frequently cite it, with all kinds of weird little variations. Mahmud Abouhalima (a prime candidate for an ME connection to OKC) discussed it for a prison interview in the book "Terror in the Mind of God." He said: "(The Oklahoma City bombing) was done for a very, very specific reason. They had some certain target, you know, a specific achievement. (...) They wanted to reach the government with the message that we are not tolerating the way you are dealing with our citizens."

He later characterized McVeigh and Nichols by saying, "If these guys, whoever they are, did whatever bombing they say they did in Oklahoma City, ( on to a political statement about the morality of killing in terrorism....)"

[My2Cents]

I've read many on FreeRepublic who suggest that JohnGalt is a phony.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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...Since the Attacks on us on September 11, 2001...

...I will NEVER FORGET how both MYLROIE & WOOLSEY kept guesting on the Judicial Watch Report Radio Show on Weekends & Weekdays on:

http://www.JudicialWatch.org

...to help us focus on Iraq's state sponsored Terrorism Role in both the 1993 Bombing and 2001 Airstrikes against New York's World Trade Center.

LAURIE & JAMES WOOLSEY =

American Heroes 4-CLARITY in Time of War

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[My2Cents]

My bad, I should have wrote: 'Mylroie's theory is phony.'

Correction noted. I retract my previous observation.

[My2Cents]

Good observations, but as much as I love W, you cannot convert entrenched careerists who are out pursuing their own agenda. Most of these people were in the Clinton Administration, and as we know, appeals to TRUTH are effective with Clinton's people.

[My2Cents]

but that specific linkage of Saddam to the act of war on 9/11 is not an established fact....The connection is going to be made.

Having read Mylroie's book, BUSH VS. THE BELTWAY, I was impressed with the circumstantial evidence she offers to connect Saddam with Al-Qaeda and 9/11. But therein is the problem -- it's primarily circumstantial evidence. I think the point of her book was two-fold: to make the case that Saddam was likely involved in the 9/11 plot, and to strongly suggest that the evidence was there prior to 9/11 and that the CIA should have pursued those leads before the attacks...or certainly after the attacks. The lack of diligence on the part of the CIA in this matter is a continuing threat to the security of this nation.

I agree with you that it is largely pointless to argue that Saddam was linked to 9/11, because the proof isn't there. Bush could say there's a "strong indication" of Saddam's involvement, but that would only get him skewered by the appeasers on the left and the isolationists on the right. My impression is that Mylroie's evidence leads are so overwhelming that it's only a matter of time before the Saddam-Usama link to 9/11 is established. Personally, I think this is one reason Bush pursued Saddam so heatedly, and used the WMD argument as a convenience -- the circumstantial evidence of Saddam's link to 9/11 is overwhelming, but it is inconclusive. Bush could not justify a war against Saddam based on inconclusive evidence, no matter how overwhelming it is, circumstantially.

[My2Cents]

from my post to you: appeals to TRUTH are effective with Clinton's people.

I, of course, meant "ineffective."

[driftless]

PLotz does not disprove anything Myroie claims, he just throws doubt on it. Plotz again makes the strange claim that certain Islamo-terrorist would not work with others. They said that about Hussein working with Bin-Laden. Then why is Al-Qaeda operating in Iraq? We hated Stalin during WWII, but we cooperated with him to defeat Hitler. Why wouldn't various Islamo-terrorist factions do the same thing?

[Peach]

You have that right, AH. They are both heroes in my view as well.

[cyncooper]

This WH never removes any option. The fact that some advisors do not advocate it, and the fact that it is unlikely at this time, does not equal pulling or removing it as an option. I'm afraid it is incumbent on you to provide documentation to buttress your assertion. Thanks, in advance.

[PhilDragoo]

[gogipper]

The administration has made it clear that there is no link between Saddam and 9.11 and I assume that they have put the most resources towards establishing whether there is any truth to Mylroie's theory.

This is not true... What the administration has said is that there is NO EVIDENCE that there is a link. I believe Mark Steyn wrote that 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence'. I believe that the evidence is still being compiled and will be released when the certainty convinces all but the tin foil club.

[gogipper]

Rember Jayna Dayvis (sp?) the reporter from Oklcity?

[Utah Girl]

Ping

[The_Eaglet]

A surprising threat to freedom-Campaign Finance Reform thread-day 29

[Peach]

Why did you link the campaign finance thread to a thread about Saddam's link to 9/11?

I would prefer to see threads stay on topic, and since I'm not on your ping list regarding campaign finance, I am curious.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Quite the contrary I know exactly what I am talking about which is far more than I can claim for many of my adversaries. I have studied the Farewell Address and its authors extensively and understand exactly what was the reason for Hamilton's writing of it. His fears (disUnion through duplicity and foreign corruption) mirrored those of Washington and his understanding of their domestic enemies' duplicity and treachery was the principle reason they swore to destroy him by any means necessary.

I note the entire lack of substantive thought in your irrelevent comment. A comment which ignores the truths stated, falling back into a minor-league mendacity without a glimmer of substance. The comment about FDR is typical red herring unrelated to anything I said as well as anything "neocons" believe. Must be nice to live within a world untouched by realities and fact.