There Is a C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N (Connection -- Iraq, Saddam, Al Qaeda, terrorism)(NRO)(Specifics)

NRO ^ | July 21, 2004 | Deroy Murdock

[FairOpinion]

In the section "Link to Terrorists", the Senate Intel report covers Iraq links to terrorists in general and especially Al Qaeda -- 66 pages worth -- showing that Iraq trained them in chemical, biological, NUCLEAR, and bomb making from "1990 to present".


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And why isn't THIS on all the front pages of newspapers and lead story on TV?

[FairOpinion]

"Iraq war: We did the Right Thing"
A future article I'll be writing.


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I'll check your site to read it.

Keep up the great work.

This needs to be told to people.

[Shermy]

Why not read the report itself:

"In February 1999,Allen proposed flying a U-2 mission over Afghanistan to build a baseline of intelligence outside the areas where the tribals had coverage. Clarke was nervous about such a mission because he continued to fear that Bin Ladin might leave for someplace less accessible. He wrote Deputy National Security Advisor Donald Kerrick that one reliable source reported Bin Ladin’s having met with Iraqi officials, who 'may have offered him asylum.' Other intelligence sources said that some Taliban leaders, though not Mullah Omar, had urged Bin Ladin to go to Iraq. If Bin Ladin actually moved to Iraq, wrote Clarke, his network would be at Saddam Hussein’s service, and it would be 'virtually impossible” to find him. Better to get Bin Ladin in Afghanistan, Clarke declared.' Berger suggested sending one U-2 flight,but Clarke opposed even this. It would require Pakistani approval, he wrote; and 'Pak[istan’s] intel[ligence service] is in bed with' Bin Ladin and would warn him that the United States was getting ready for a bombing campaign: 'Armed with that knowledge, old wily Usama will likely boogie to Baghdad.' Though told also by Bruce Riedel of the NSC staff that Saddam Hussein wanted Bin Ladin in Baghdad,Berger conditionally authorized a single U-2 flight.Allen meanwhile had found other ways of getting the information he wanted. So the U-2 flight never occurred.

[FairOpinion]

Thanks.

So even during the Clinton administration it was a given, that there was a link between Bin Laden and Saddam.

[Southack]

Nice catch.

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