Bo Dietl: 'Hundreds' of Al Qaida Fled to Iraq After 9/11

NewsMax.com ^ | 08/02/2004 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[Just mythoughts]

Bo Dietl also said the shooter in DC, Maryland, & Virginia, was a "white" guy hooked on video games.

Bo Dietl is a JFKerry supporter and I do not trust a word he says.

[mastequilla]

No, the terrorist leaders Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal both died in Iraq...Abu Abbas in our custody.

Abu Nidal had long been out of the terror game when he died. Abbas rescinded his calls for terror in 1996. Israel even allowed him to travel to Gaza in 1996 to vote in Palestinian National Council elections.

Also, neither Abbas nor Nidal were part of Al Qaeda.

[jwalsh07]

Bologna. Abu Abbas never gave up the reins of the PLF. The PLF was the conduit for bounty paid to the murderers of Israelis and Americans in Israel by Iraq.

The PLF fought against our guys in the attack on Baghdad and had maintained a terrorist training site in Iraq for forays into Israel.

Aside from all that, Abu Abbas was directly responsible for the death of an AMerican citizen, Leon Klinghoffer on the Achille Lauro and was sentenced to death in absentia. He was "free" to travel nowhere.

As for Nidal, same ole same ole. Hussein gave them sanctuary in return for certain favors. The notion that terrorists of this notoriety can just retire from terrorism is as ridiculous as the notion that Iraq had no WMD.

[mastequilla]

Aside from all that, Abu Abbas was directly responsible for the death of an AMerican citizen, Leon Klinghoffer on the Achille Lauro and was sentenced to death in absentia. He was "free" to travel nowhere.

As for Nidal, same ole same ole. Hussein gave them sanctuary in return for certain favors. The notion that terrorists of this notoriety can just retire from terrorism is as ridiculous as the notion that Iraq had no WMD.

Your facts are way off, I'd suggest you spend a few minutes on google.

Regardless, neither were high profile Al Qaeda targets, almost all of whom have been captured in Pakistan, so my point remains valid and I'm not sure why you would bring these two up.

You do realize that it is possible for one to rescind terrorism and become a working partner for peace? Take a look at what is going on Libya right now.

[jwalsh07]

Your facts are way off, I'd suggest you spend a few minutes on google.

My facts are exactly correct and you, mastequilla, don't know what the hell you are talking about. But feel free to counter my facts and save the bs for somebody who doesn't know what he's talking about. Like you.

I await your links to Michael Moore.

[Southack]

"And yet most, if not all, the high profile targets we've captured have been holed up in Pakistan."

No. That's absolutely wrong.

The terrorist leaders Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal both died in Iraq...Abu Abbas in our custody.

Ansar al-Islam terror leader Aso Hawleri, also known as Asad Muhammad Hasan, was captured in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in 2003.

Ansar al-Islam's spiritual leader, Mullah Krekar, was taken into custody in the Netherlands in September 2002 and later was deported to Norway.

Ahmed Walid Raguib al-Baz, a 1st Lieutenant in the terrorist Palestine Liberation Front, was Killed on 3/20/03 near Baghdad.

Abu Nidal terror operative Khala Khadr Al-Salahat was captured in Iraq in April, 2003.

A Malaysia-based Iraqi national, Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, who worked at the Kuala Lumpur airport, facilitated the arrival of two of the September 11 hijackers, Khalid al Midhar and Nawaq al Hamzi (who were at the controls of American Airlines Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon), for an operational-planning meeting in Kuala Lumpur in January, 2000. Shakir helped them through the passport and customs process upon their arrival in Kuala Lumpur. Shakir then traveled with the hijackers to the Kuala Lumpur Hotel. Shakir got his airport job through a contact at the Iraqi Embassy. (Hayes says that Iraq routinely used its embassies as staging grounds for intelligence operations; sometimes more than half of the alleged diplomats were intelligence operatives.) Another man at that al Qaeda operational meeting in the Kuala Lumpur Hotel was Tawfiz al Atash, a top bin Laden lieutenant later identified as the mastermind of the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole. Also in attendance was Ramzi bin al Shibh, the operational planner of the 9/11 attacks. The meetings lasted three or four days. Documents uncovered in Iraq listing the rosters of officers in Saddam's Fedayeen (the elite paramilitary group run by Saddam's son Uday) include the name of Lt. Col. Ahmed Hikmat Shakir...http://www.congressaction.info/2004/06202004.htm

Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, former Iraq Consul, reportedly met with Mohammed Atta in Prague shortly before 9/11, Captured in Iraq on 7/02/03.

Abdul Rahman Yasin, Indicted fugitive from 1993 WTC bombing, $25 Million reward, last seen in Iraq.

Lets also not forget that 1993 WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef entered the U.S. with an Iraqi passport.

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[mastequilla]

No. That's absolutely wrong.

The terrorist leaders Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal both died in Iraq...Abu Abbas in our custody.

Neither were members of Al Qaeda. You need to re-read the title of this thread. You've gone off on a tangent here.

[Southack]

"Neither were members of Al Qaeda. You need to re-read the title of this thread. You've gone off on a tangent here."

Do they have little membership cards?! Uniforms?! Secret handshakes?! How do you know what group(s) they're all in??

I mean, we've captured and killed numerous high-ranking terrorist leaders inside Iraq, and you want to quibble over whether they were or were not in al- qaeda specifically?!

What, like we weren't at risk from *other* terror groups?!

What the heck were all of these different terrorist leaders doing in Iraq if not cooperating with each other and Saddam Hussein?!

5 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires

[Fred Hansen]

That's your opinion. I'll take it for what I think it's worth.

[mastequilla]

You might find this thread of interest (Pakistan)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1183956/posts