http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/12/4/121101.shtml
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004 12:07 p.m. EST
"Oil for Food May Have Funded 9/11 Attacks"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In what may be the most shocking news to emerge from the already stunning Oil for Food scandal, investigators say that Saddam Hussein bankrolled key al Qaida players in the late 1990s - a period of time when the terror group was planning the 9/11 attacks and the Iraqi dictator was ripping off billions from the U.N. program.
"Saddam had given $300,000 in cash to Ayman Al Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's number two man, in the spring of 1998," the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1294442/posts
"IDF arrests senior Hamas fugitive [wearing women's clothing]"
Jerusalem Post ^ | Dec. 4, 2004 | MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
Posted on 12/04/2004 12:36:08 PM PST by yonif
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A senior Hamas commander in Tulkarm, Rami Abed Teikh, 26, was arrested Saturday night in a joint operation carried out by the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).
Wanted by Israel since 2002, Teikh headed the cell that carried out the suicide bombing attack at Park Hotel in Netanya in March 2002. 22 people were killed and 100 injured in the attack, which prompted 'Operation Defense Shield' in the West Bank.
During 'Defense Shield', Teikh received assistance from the local civilian population in order to evade arrest. He wore women's clothing to move about undetected.
In recent years he was involved in recruiting activists and setting up a number of Hamas cells, whose members perpetrated scores of shooting and bomb attacks.
IDF combatants from the Egoz unit and the Nachshon Battalion surrounded a house in which Teikh was hiding and ordered him to surrender. Refusing to do so IDF soldiers fired an anti-tank rocket at the house, forcing Teikh to come out.
During Saturday's operation in Tulkarm, six other fugitives were arrested by security forces.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were arrested in the Askal refugee camp in Nablus. Security forces believe the two were a bomber and a dispatcher in the midst of planning a suicide attack."
No connection between Iraq and OBL..... nothing to see here......move along.
I'd be thankful if you posted this at NoE also