No, the terrorist leaders Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal both died in Iraq...Abu Abbas in our custody.
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Posted on 08/02/2004 1:17:58 PM PDT by LifeTrek
"Hundreds" of al Qaida operatives based in Afghanistan gained sanctuary in Iraq and Iran after the Taliban fell in Dec. 2001, according to legendary New York City detective-turned-international security expert Bo Dietl.
Dietl first revealed the startling tidbit on Don Imus's Monday morning radio broadcast, sourcing an active duty Navy Seal who told him that U.S. Special Forces had tracked "hundreds of al Qaida who had fled to Iraq."
We tracked Dietl down a few hours later and he elaborated on what the unnamed Navy Seal said. "He starts to tell me about how, right after 9/11, they took them into Afghanistan. They were following, through both satellite tracking and with helicopters, al Qaida and Taliban escaping into Iraq and into Iran."
Dietl said he wasn't a "rah-rah Bush backer," but he couldn't understand why the White House isn't making more of what he called "smoking gun" justification for the Iraq war.
"Why isn't the American public being told about this," he complained to NewsMax. "Al Qaida was in Iraq and we knew they were in Iraq - and that makes our whole sacrifice there reasonable."
Well, duh! Where the hell else were they going to go? They were not welcome in Iran because they are Sunnis and Wahhabis. This is why I supported taking out Saddam Hussein even if there weren't a single WMD in the country.
Kerry and Moore are digging deeper and deeper holes.
Strategy: Don't stop them.
strategery strategery strategery
Don't want to play "what we know" until they have to. Maybe Bush isn't stressing this because he doesn't want it known just how much they do know, and how, because then that source dries up.
Sometimes it isn't about being reelected; sometimes it is about America.
I thought Dietl was a friend and backer of Kerry. I was able to get to him and have a phone conversation with him a few months ago and told him of the debate and vote Kerry attended in 1971 regarding assassinating U.S. senators.
Frankly, I don't think Dietl has any more information than the rest of us, unless you're talking about the menu at Rao's.
France, Germany, the UN......
Imus has been critical, but Dietl has not. He is, though, a windbag, and I'm surprised that NewsMax finds him a creditable source.
Isn't it already known that the Taliban had a base in northeastern Iraq near the Iran border in a area under Kurdish control (and not under control of Saddam)? IIRC, we went after them from the air and then the ground after we moved up from Bagdad, maybe May or June of last year.
Well DUH!
Seriously, some of these New Yawk fruitcakes - like Bo - need to get a clue.
Bo is hardly a fruitcake - a highly decorated NYC detective. sure, he's got his on-air antics going on, but that's part of his media "image".
And yet most, if not all, the high profile targets we've captured have been holed up in Pakistan.
This would be a far greater justification for going into Iraq than weapons of mass destruction alone. But the only thing that seemed to motivate the reluctant was the fear of another attack launch, and there was ample reason to believe that Saddam would deploy and use WMD against his near neighbors. The supportive evidence all indicated that the WMD existed and was about to be deployed. The additional intelligence that al-Qaeda was streaming out of Afghanistan and into Iraq was very compelling, that the alliance was becoming much stronger between Saddam and al-Qaeda. With al-Qaeda as the conduit, the WMD could be deployed widely across the world.
Invasion of Iraq was the effective check that stopped that possibility.
I agree. But these two seperate issues are fast approaching a point of intersection.
Knowing how a Kerry administration would set back the WOT, GWB has got to pull out the stops to get a win in November for the good of the nation. It'll soon be time to lay all the cards on the table with an eye towards crushing Kerry.
Imus is one of the pubs sleepers. I swear. He knows he will lose his audience if he supports Bush. He says he supports Kerry but listen closely. I think he is one of us. His wife isn't.
Just look at the content of the article here. The story is nothing more than an acccount of a radio program segment -- in which the "source" is some guy (a regular guest on the radio show) quoting another "source" who is an unnamed Navy Seal who said that U.S. Special Forces tracked a bunch of al-Qaeda operatives into Iraq.
One of the worst aspects of the modern Internet age is that it has given any third-rate hack the opportunity to spend lots of bandwidth on absolutely nothing.
No, the terrorist leaders Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal both died in Iraq...Abu Abbas in our custody.
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They spin their headlines even better than CNN.
It's always important to be extra discerning when reading anything on their website.
They are not to be totally dismissed tho.
Exactly. I take what Newsmax has to say with a grain of salt. They use too much third hand sources, unnamed sources and generic so-called "officials", also unnamed. I remember one article that used U.N. officials as some sort of credible source for some sort of information that would only be credible if it came from the Pentagon or FBI/CIA. I can't remember what the information was now, but they were quoting all these U.N. people. You dissected this article the same way I dissected that other one.
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