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"THE" Reason We Went Into Iraq
Inside Scoop - Fox News Channel ^ | Sunday, 5-23-2004 | Eric Shawn & John Loftus

Posted on 05/23/2004 3:53:42 PM PDT by Matchett-PI

Edited on 05/23/2004 5:21:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: aft_lizard

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1058282/posts

In late Feb2003, shortly before the Gulf War II, an Iraqi clerk walked into our embassy in Italy and wanted to defect. He handled codes for the Iraqi secret police (Mukbarat sp?). Of course, we wanted him to give us some intelligence info in exchange for asylum. The man said that he was hearing lots of traffic about a terrorist planning meeting in Libya and that he was supposed to go there as a clerk.

We tracked the man to Libya and he got the details of the upcoming meeting ... but wouldn't turn them over to us until he was out of the country. Our agents handling him decided to fake his death. They gave him a paralyzing drug then posed as paramedics to take him away. After getting across to Egypt, the man told our guys when and where the meeting would take place.

Our Navy closed on the Libyan coast and sent a SEAL team to listen in on the meeting. They put a camera in the meeting house and beamed the signal via satellite back to the CIA. We found that the high ranking Iraqi secret police official was setting up plans to bomb American embassies. After gathering the info, the SEAL team was ordered to take them out, which they did.

Afterwards, papers found in the house indicated that the Iraqis were also going to use a suicide bomber to kill a Muslim anti-Saddam cleric in England. We had MI6 warn the cleric. He wore a flak jacket on his way to the mosque. A suicide bomber approached and MI6 killed him.


81 posted on 05/23/2004 6:41:53 PM PDT by aft_lizard (I actually voted for John Kerry before I voted against him)
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To: pookie18
The judge heard testimony from former CIA director James Woolsey, Laurie Mylroie, etc., before ruling.

Had he heard from Mr. Loftus, do you think he might have been inclined to rule differently?

Then again, Judge Baer is most likely another bleeding-heart liberal who will invent just about any excuse for a real criminal not having any responsibility for his or her actions. He might find the Bic lighter people criminally liable, for example, in a an arson case.

Not to mention what those terrible lighters contribute to the smoking habit.

I notice in The Smoking Gun's summary of the civil lawsuit filed by 9/11 survivors that Judge Baer decided that lawyers for the families "have shown, albeit barely...that Iraq provided material support to bin Laden and al-Qaeda" in the attack on the World Trade Center.

This is a far cry from his saying that, as HighWheeler did in large type, Iraq was behind the 9-11 attacks.

To the same degree as Bic causes lung cancer? Possibly.

82 posted on 05/23/2004 6:42:15 PM PDT by logician2u
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To: Matchett-PI

The Administration may be sitting on this info because releasing it could prejudice the trial of Saddam. I would think that if it is true, it will come out in the trial.


83 posted on 05/23/2004 6:44:38 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (And now, Dems_R_EVIL --- Pukin Dog)
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To: DoctorMichael
re: "Because for 10 years we had to listen to the media and the Democrats jab George the 1st for NOT going 'all the way to Baghdad'."

Amen,and amen! One of the reasons cited repeatedly by the elder President Bush at the time was that we would then have to occupy the country for some length of time and his advisers didn't feel that would an easy task.
84 posted on 05/23/2004 6:47:09 PM PDT by jwpjr
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To: CharlotteVRWC
"Do you have a link to the FULL article? All I am getting is the fox.com main website, and I can't find the article listed..."

It's not an article, it is something I transcribed from my videotape today. Jim restored the whole thing, so now you can read it all.

85 posted on 05/23/2004 6:51:02 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (Entrenched DemocRAT union-backed bureaucrats quietly sabotage President Bush every day.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

You're a good man for tellin us about this earlier!!!


86 posted on 05/23/2004 6:54:57 PM PDT by SierraWasp (STOP PREMPTIVE JOURNALISM!!! A malevolent media can kill America's will, AGAIN!!!)
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To: Matchett-PI; HighWheeler

Thanks guys.


87 posted on 05/23/2004 6:57:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: logician2u
Yes, I posted this about 2 hours ago:

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030923-101959-4113r.htm

88 posted on 05/23/2004 7:15:52 PM PDT by pookie18
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To: Dog Gone; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER

Well, my FRiend... After just watching See Bee Ess "60 minutes" with General Zinni venting his envious/jealous spleen on Rummy and the Hebrew "Neo Cons," I certainly will be disappointed if the President wasn't holding this story until exactly the right time!!! (WHICH IS NOW!!!)(BEFORE SCHOOL LETS OUT!!!)


89 posted on 05/23/2004 7:28:50 PM PDT by SierraWasp (STOP PREMPTIVE JOURNALISM!!! A malevolent media can kill America's will, AGAIN!!!)
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To: ovrtaxt

nice tagline


90 posted on 05/23/2004 7:59:03 PM PDT by jonatron (Land of the Free, home of the Brave)
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To: Matchett-PI; mcmuffin
Tank U berry moutch, sweetie...............FRegards


91 posted on 05/23/2004 8:06:35 PM PDT by gonzo (I support a womans' right to choose!......."So, what are they? Silicone or Saline?")
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To: Dog Gone

Timing, DG, timing. Allow the dnc to spew all of its hate and negativisms, then blow their sorry asses out of the political water with the truth, the cold, hard truth. The war on terrorism has many skirmish lines, one of which is Iraq, but one major one as we see, since the Islamofacists are doomed (by their own words) if democracy is some form breaks out in Iraq. Sadly, it is the Iraqi people who will be slaughtered by the Islamic radicals as they seek to ruin the right of self rule in Iraq. But the more of them (the Islamic radicals) we kill in the next few months, the less Iraqi citizens will be made bomb fodder by the Islamic radicals.


92 posted on 05/23/2004 8:11:33 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Congressman Billybob
When first hearing Loftus a month or two ago I went to his website and that just brought on more question marks about him. The Libya - Iraq - Korea connection was also mentioned by Richard Miniter not too long ago. Unfortunately, this old brain doesn't remember if it was on FNC or radio.
93 posted on 05/23/2004 8:16:19 PM PDT by pieces of time (Support Rumsfeld!)
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To: Matchett-PI; MeekOneGOP; Travis McGee; archy; dyed_in_the_wool; Eurotwit; Darksheare

DATUM.


94 posted on 05/23/2004 8:34:19 PM PDT by King Prout (the difference between "trained intellect" and "indoctrinated intellectual" is an Abyssal gulf)
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To: Squantos

Q clearance??


95 posted on 05/23/2004 8:49:45 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: SE Mom

In case you are finished packing , the original post is back after some high level pleading!


96 posted on 05/23/2004 9:12:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: SierraWasp

Watching SeeBeeSss to raise your blood pressure for better rants?

I haven't watched them at all in the last several years.


97 posted on 05/23/2004 9:26:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: cricket
I remain. . .just disgusted by our expectations; and the failure that meets them.

I will give the GOP one more chance. After this election, I want to see some truth. I want to see some conservative judges. I want to see some agressive stance with regard to the treasonous parasites among us, and tax reform, and securing the borders, and the size and scope of government.

If I don't see it, I'm gone.

98 posted on 05/23/2004 9:35:55 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (Stop the war. ********** NUKE EM NOW !)
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To: Matchett-PI

Cool. Thanks very much for catching this and passing it along.


99 posted on 05/23/2004 9:37:39 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (Stop the war. ********** NUKE EM NOW !)
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To: Matchett-PI

Had klinton, the NYT, CBS,NBC,ABC,,et al knew exactly this several years before they would NOT have taken any action. There is much treason revealed in this article, not written right out, but there for tose who think a little.


100 posted on 05/23/2004 10:29:46 PM PDT by Waco
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