Posted on 06/29/2005 10:27:29 AM PDT by Peach
Saddam's intelligence agency's efforts to recruit jihadists to bomb Radio Free Europe in Prague in the late 1990's?
Mohammed Atta's unexplained visits to Prague in 2000, and his alleged visit there in April 2001 which — notwithstanding the 9/11 Commission's dismissal of it (based on interviewing exactly zero relevant witnesses) — the Czechs have not retracted?
The Clinton Justice Department's allegation in a 1998 indictment (two months before the embassy bombings) against bin Laden, to wit: In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq.
Seized Iraq Intelligence Service records indicating that Saddam's henchmen regarded bin Laden as an asset as early as 1992?
Saddam's hosting of al Qaeda No. 2, Ayman Zawahiri beginning in the early 1990’s, and reports of a large payment of money to Zawahiri in 1998?
Saddam’s ten years of harboring of 1993 World Trade Center bomber Abdul Rahman Yasin?
Iraqi Intelligence Service operatives being dispatched to meet with bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1998 (the year of bin Laden’s fatwa demanding the killing of all Americans, as well as the embassy bombings)?
Saddam’s official press lionizing bin Laden as “an Arab and Islamic hero” following the 1998 embassy bombing attacks?
The continued insistence of high-ranking Clinton administration officials to the 9/11 Commission that the 1998 retaliatory strikes (after the embassy bombings) against a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory were justified because the factory was a chemical weapons hub tied to Iraq and bin Laden?
Top Clinton administration counterterrorism official Richard Clarke’s assertions, based on intelligence reports in 1999, that Saddam had offered bin Laden asylum after the embassy bombings, and Clarke’s memo to then-National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, advising him not to fly U-2 missions against bin Laden in Afghanistan because he might be tipped off by Pakistani Intelligence, and “[a]rmed with that knowledge, old wily Usama will likely boogie to Baghdad”? (See 9/11 Commission Final Report, p. 134 & n.135.)
Terror master Abu Musab Zarqawi's choice to boogie to Baghdad of all places when he needed surgery after fighting American forces in Afghanistan in 2001?
Saddam's Intelligence Service running a training camp at Salman Pak, were terrorists were instructed in tactics for assassination, kidnapping and hijacking?
Former CIA Director George Tenet’s October 7, 2002 letter to Congress, which asserted:
Our understanding of the relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda is evolving and is based on sources of varying reliability. Some of the information we have received comes from detainees, including some of high rank.
We have solid reporting of senior level contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda going back a decade.
Credible information indicates that Iraq and Al Qaeda have discussed safe haven and reciprocal nonaggression.
Since Operation Enduring Freedom, we have solid evidence of the presence in Iraq of Al Qaeda members, including some that have been in Baghdad.
We have credible reporting that Al Qaeda leaders sought contacts in Iraq who could help them acquire WMD capabilities. The reporting also stated that Iraq has provided training to Al Qaeda members in the areas of poisons and gases and making conventional bombs.
Iraq's increasing support to extremist Palestinians coupled with growing indications of relationship with Al Qaeda suggest that Baghdad's links to terrorists will increase, even absent U.S. military action.
Read about the Clinton indictment against OBL which cited the terrorists's connections with Iraq and the agreement OBL and Iraq had together.
Read about the articles written in the 90's by the MSM about the growing relationship between Saddam and OBL.
That and more here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327993/posts
Note to John Kerry: Terrorists ARE weapons of mass destruction.
You're welcome, mewzilla.
I'm starting to think that some Democrats are weapons of mass destruction too. Their words have almost certainly emboldened the enemy and OBL must be laughing his head off at how the liars in the media and Congress have divided the country.
Outstanding article and post, Peach. People in our culture suffer from a severe case of Attention Deficit Disorder, and unfortunately, but vitally, our President needs to continue to remind the American people why we are in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and about 70 other nations where there is some kind of American presence to combat international terrorism.
The left's reply to al the above proof:
"Nuh uh, Bush is evil"
Anybody have a connection with FOX News? Contact them and ask them to please present this list to all the Bush-hating dimocraps out there who are whining about Dubya's statement. Then ask them why in the world they STILL think there is no connection.
THAT would be bringing balance to the issue.
So even the applause was phony.
Thank you!
Hi, My2Cents. Long time no see.
I do so wish the president or someone in the administration would go through some of these connections in an interview or press conference.
Support for the war and our soldiers would increase tenfold, it would help unit the country, shut up some of the liars in Congress, and the terrorists would see more resolve in the WOT and understand more fully they cannot win.
You are more than welcome! Love your screen name.
Good idea. I'll re-send to Brit Hume.
Who the hell is Andrew C. McCarthy and what the hell is the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies?
Great Post !
Or see #8 for another reply.
That article you referenced is in this link, as well as lots more. There is an article in the link written by FrontPage magazine which headlines all the articles written in the 90's about the relationship between Saddam and AQ.
Of course, that is all before this became a political football and the press thinks we can't look this stuff up. LOL
That and more here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327993/posts
Thank you, ex-Texan.
It seems timely since we're hearing all day about the Democrats outrage that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
I don't know which part of the WOT they don't understand :-)
As for who he is, here's the website. Look at the cast of characters on the board of advisors. Notice any people in particular? Looks like a renamed PNAC
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