Al Jazeera Touting Clark 'Quote' to Exonerate al Qaeda

NewsMax.com ^ | Jan. 14, 2004 | Carl Limbacher

[Carl/NewsMax]

The Al Jazeera television network is touting the latest campaign trail rhetoric from presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark to exonerate al Qaeda in the 9/11 attacks.

In a report posted to the top of its web site Wednesday afternoon, the Arab-based news service ran the headline, "Clark: No al-Qaeda connection to 9/11."

"A leading US Democrat and presidential hopeful has said in a press conference that al-Qaeda was not connected to the 11 September attacks," Al Jazeera maintained.

The report continued:

"Speaking in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday, Wesley Clark said that the US president took the country to war for party-ideological reasons. . . .

"Clark added that nothing said by the intelligence services to date had proven any connection between the Islamist organisation and the destruction of the World Trade Towers.

"'I did not believe then that al-Qaeda was involved in 9/11,'" Al Jazeera quoted Clark as saying. "'I do not believe it now.'"

Reached at Gen. Clark's Little Rock campaign headquarters, campaign spokesman Bill Buck told NewsMax, "Those quotes are inaccurate and do not represent the views of Gen. Clark."

[skinkinthegrass]

HA!HA!HA!..It gets better and better for General "Confusion" Clark. :)

[thesummerwind]

"Those quotes are inaccurate and do not represent the views of Gen. Clark."

What IS accurate, Weasley?

[mewzilla]

Thanks for the post.

Way to go, Ashley. Give aid and comfort to the enemy.

[Shermy]

Great find.

I think Clark said Saddam and 9/11, and there was a mistranslation? But here's the Jazeera article...wild!

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C99ADA0B-40A4-4966-863B-0FDA4E9C7EF0.htm

[Howlin]

I think Clark said Saddam and 9/11, and there was a mistranslation?

Oh, a misquote?

Pity.

I'm passing it on like it's the gospel.

(P.S. You're right; he did say Saddam.)

[Ex-Dem]

I remember hearing something similar from another crackpot. Assad, I think it was, only he claimed that not only was AQ not involved in 9-11, there is no such thing as Al Qaeda!

[expatpat]

A leading US Democrat and presidential hopeful has said.....that al-Qaeda was not connected to the 11 September attacks

Correction: "A leading US Democrat idiot has said....

[eureka!]

Nope. He misspoke, twice...

[PLMerite]

Hey, you'd say weird things too if you were a puppet with Hillary's hand up your...

[expatpat]

He said that there was no link betweem Ben Laden and 9/11. The he rushed back to the podium to change his statement.

[swarthyguy]

Oh boy! And a jihadi legend gains new life in the sands and salons of Araabi.

If not the International Islamic Front, then whooooooo?

Hindoos, Voodoos, Jewdoos?

[thesummerwind]

Reached at Gen. Clark's Little Rock campaign headquarters, campaign spokesman Bill Buck told NewsMax

Is this guy passing the Buck? These guys better get their story straight.

Just think how dirty it's going to get in the next 10 months! This campaign is going to be uglier than the dreadful 'SEVEN WEEKS OF HELL' after the 2000 election.

[Shermy]

I'm passing it on like it's the gospel.

Don't lose hope, it could be a blunder - a la Pres. Jerry Ford about Poland.

[Shermy]

Nope. He misspoke, twice...

No kidding! You got a link?

[Diogenesis]

[Angelus Errare]

Clark ping

[cwb]

Actually, when CLark first spoke he did say there was no link between AQ and 9/11. He did make a mistake and later corrected it when one of his staffers mentioned it to him. In fact, Hume showed the gaffe last night during his "Grapevine" segment.

[Trampled by Lambs]

Regardless of whether he was misquoted or misspoke, when will people like him realize that their ridiculous attacks on GWB are used against us by the enemy?