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NYT saw Al Qaeda Iraq connection in January 2001 . . . but now seems to forget
The New York Times | January 14, 2001 | Stephen Engelberg

Posted on 6/23/2004, 12:36:48 AM by lonestar67

Prosecutors say the group also considered attacking Americans in Kenya to retaliate for the Somalia mission. Mr. Mohamed testified that Mr. bin Laden sent him to Nairobi in late 1993 to look over possible American, French, British and Israeli targets for a bomb attack, including the American Embassy. He said he took photos, drew diagrams and wrote a report, which he delivered to his boss in Khartoum. "Bin Laden looked at the picture of the American Embassy and pointed to where a truck could go as a suicide bomber," he said.

American prosecutors say Al Qaeda had more grandiose plans: a leading member, an Iraqi who Mr. Anas said had first gravitated to Mr. bin Laden in Afghanistan, tried to buy enriched uranium in Europe.

The Iraqi, Mahdouh Mahmud Salim, forged links between Mr. bin Laden's group and others supported by Iran. Mr. Salim met with an Iranian religious official in Khartoum, and soon afterward, the prosecutors say, Al Qaeda members got training from Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite group in Lebanon skilled in making car bombs. American officials said this alliance was notable because it marked the first time radicals from the minority Shiite branch of Islam collaborated with extremists from the dominant Sunni branch.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 911; alqaeda; alqaedaandiraq; intolerant; iraq; islam; muslims; nyt; terror; terrorism; totalitarian; tyranny
This excerpt of a NYT series on Al Qaeda indicates how event the NYT prior to 9-11 knew of connections between iraq and Al Qaeda. Now the NYT seems to forget.
1 posted on 6/23/2004, 12:36:49 AM by lonestar67
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To: lonestar67
Don't get me wrong, my fanatical neocon-brainwashed belief in Iraq-AQ links takes a backseat to no one's, but this article such as it is seems to detail an Iran-AQ link.
2 posted on 6/23/2004, 12:49:42 AM by Dr. Frank fan
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To: lonestar67

Jayson Blair wrote those articles...nothing to see here, move along....


3 posted on 6/23/2004, 12:51:24 AM by ServesURight
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To: lonestar67

Without links, these kinds of stories are useless. I want to pass them on to other websites, but without links, they are just cut-n-paste jobs. Not useful at all.


4 posted on 6/23/2004, 1:40:34 AM by samtheman (www.georgewbush.com)
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To: lonestar67; Huck; nwrep
Cross linking!

1999 AP Flashback: Saddam has offered asylum to bin Laden

1999 Newsweek: Saddam + Bin Laden? America's two enemies are courting.
 

5 posted on 6/23/2004, 2:35:54 AM by Incorrigible (immanentizing the eschaton)
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To: lonestar67

These statements in The New York Times have expired, and as such do not contradict the truth of the news that is fit to print in that paper today. Remember, with Liberals, "it depends upon what the definition of the word 'is' is," so there can be no contradiction. "Is" should be interpreted so broadly as to include the meaning normally ascribed either to "is not" or to "is." The New York Times, therefore, contains words that are so vague as to be entirely devoid of meaning, rendering the entire paper a monstrosity of psychobabble.


6 posted on 6/23/2004, 2:42:04 AM by dufekin (John F. Kerry. Irrational, improvident, backward, seditious.)
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To: dufekin

The Clinton Justice Department obtained a federal indictment against Osama bin Laden which cited specifically that the terrorist had a relationship with Saddam Hussein.

How quickly the leftists forget.

Dozens of articles and connections between OBL and Saddam here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127451/posts


7 posted on 6/23/2004, 3:17:49 AM by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Peach
But the Governor of Texas did not realize the problem because, clearly, the indictment was subject to the same standard of truth as the rest of the statements that the President delivered under oath. Had you read the indictment properly (and I choose not to do so), you would have realized that there is no connection between Saddam and bin Laden, as now has been revealed by Michael Moore (whom I consider to be colluding with the enemy and hence a traitor) as Truth, a view ratified as Truth by The New York Times, as it interprets an alleged conversation with a notoriously leftist and openly seditious staff member of the infamous Commission.

In any case, if the al-Qaida/Saddam ties were serious, then the Governor of Texas, to whom the Constitution of the United States of America, through emanations and penumbras, grants the sole power to wage preemptive warfare, would have sent the Texas Rangers, State Police, and National Guard on a covert intelligence-gathering mission to the Arab countries. But Governor George W. Bush was too morally weak and repugnant, having deserted the Texas Air National Guard, to order them to take proper action, which would have consisted of ousting the Taliban, capturing Usama bin Laden and delivering him to New York for trial, and effecting regime change in Iraq, a duty assigned to the Governor of Texas by the Congress of the United States by the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. He should have financed these wars, to whatever extent not approved by the legislature of the State of Texas, from his private fortune that he obtained by gouging Americans with artificially deflated gasoline prices through his business dealings with Halliburton and Enron.

Because of his failures to execute his duties as Governor of Texas, George W. Bush resigned in disgrace in December 2001 but was almost immediately anointed President by the Supreme Court in the only case of judicial tyranny on grand scale ever committed in the entire history of the United States despite the fact that Al Gore clearly had won the election, taking Florida by a landslide margin of negative five hundred votes. Once in the White House, the woefully incompetent Bush completely and totally failed to execute the duties of the Presidency, with a performance that ranks him worse than even James Buchanan.

On September 11, 2001, Bush recognized his failures as Governor of Texas to protect the American homeland by launching preemptive war. He was, however, no longer empowered by the Constitution to wage war as Commander in Chief, except with the explicit permission of a hodgepodge of cheese-eating surrender monkeys. His management of the economy left it the worst since Herbert Hoover--for those trying to run it into the ground. His foreign policy, likewise, proved to be a miserable failure for those seditiously supporting enemies of the hardworking American. He proved ignorant of Constitutional emanations and penumbras, wishing the Blessing of Almighty God upon our once-great nation and even opposing the most fundamental right of the liberal woman to murder a baby within herself.

But Bush imposed the most miserable failure upon the terrorists who wish to kill Americans, and for that the all-American patriots who practice sedition can be eternally angry.

I think I got that right, capturing the leftists' thoughts quite well. Hard to tell these days.
8 posted on 6/23/2004, 3:46:47 AM by dufekin (John F. Kerry. Irrational, improvident, backward, seditious.)
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To: lonestar67

bump


9 posted on 6/23/2004, 3:59:18 AM by VOA
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To: Incorrigible

good job...beat me to the crosslinks


10 posted on 6/23/2004, 3:59:50 AM by VOA
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To: dufekin

You could write for the NYT! And I mean that in a nice way. LOL

Anyway, great and funny read.


11 posted on 6/23/2004, 12:49:44 PM by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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