"Not listening! Not listening!"
Posted on 08/28/2005 1:49:07 PM PDT by RWR8189
Amazing! Enquiring minds want to know.
Fantastic article! Thanks for posting this.
My only complaint, the same I have with most articles and columns about the attacks of September 11th, the war on terror, and the Iraq war, is that the author mentions the "9-11 Commission" as if that commission was ever anything but a pandering political sideshow and a laughingstock. Sure, it turned out to be an expensive waste of taxpayer dollars, and maybe even a danger to national security by its partisanship and incompetence, but I think it's time to forget about it and get some real hearings underway.
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Thank you so much, My2Cents. I'm on the hurricane thread and would have definitely missed this.
I've added it to my list of links and will read it more carefully later. Stephen Hayes has been a national treasure and done more investigative work on this matter than the entire 9/11 commission all together, imo.
Thank you so much, My2Cents. I'm on the hurricane thread and would have definitely missed this.
I've added it to my list of links and will read it more carefully later. Stephen Hayes has been a national treasure and done more investigative work on this matter than the entire 9/11 commission all together, imo.
Thank you so much, My2Cents. I'm on the hurricane thread and would have definitely missed this.
I've added it to my list of links and will read it more carefully later. Stephen Hayes has been a national treasure and done more investigative work on this matter than the entire 9/11 commission all together, imo.
Sorry for the triple posts. My computer is giving me fits and I have GOT to call someone to come help me "fix" it.
I can understand the Dems motives in all this but there were also Republicans on that committee .....what the hell happened to them?
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Good article. I have only seen Hayes on FOX about the time a year ago when his book on terrorism came out. This of course will be clotheslined by MSM and so most Americans will believe like Cindy Shehan does that there is no connection between 911 and IRAQ!
This issue is getting more interesting. While Saddam my not have directed the 9/11 attacks, even 9/11 Commissioner Lehman explained that documents uncovered in Baghdad:
"Indicate that there is at least one officer of Saddam's Fedayeen, a lieutenant colonel, who was a very prominent member of al-Qaida."
Continuing, he said..."the one striking bit of new evidence is that the name Ahmed Hikmat Shakir appears on three captured rosters of officers in Saddam Fedayeen, the elite paramilitary group run by Saddam's son Uday and entrusted with doing much of the regime's dirty work."
He also went on to highlight much of these other connections from Malaysia and the meetings Ahmed attended. With these acknowledgments, how can some other members of the 9/11 Commission come to any other conclusion. And how can the media continue to perpetuate the lie that Saddam was never a threat...or supporting terrorists.
Whether it was this guy Ahmed, Ramsey Yousif, Abu Nidal, Abu Abbas...or the presence of Al Zarqawi in Iraq even before the war, the evidence is overwhelming that Saddam was a threat. He had already offered UBL santuary on several occassions after Sudan wanted him gone.
Heck, the establishment of Ansar Al-Islam...an AQ affiliate, just after 9/11 in N. Iraq is another issue that's been largely ignored. While they list December of 2001 as the date of formation, Zarqawi and AQ were meeting with both Arabs and Kurds "before" 9/11 to help in launching this outfit.
Human Rights Watch even admits through interviews, that AQ had given over $600,000 dollars to this outfit, along with several vehicles. It's my contention that Ansar and N. Iraq was going to become one of AQ's new bases of operation had the war in Afghanistan succeeded in ousting the AQ and the Taliban. And this was confirmed when Zarqawi ended up in Baghdad for two months shortly after the Afghanistan war started...only to find himself back with Ansar.
Further interviews also noted that fellow Kurds reported the influx of hundreds of foreign fighters, from Afghanistan...before we even went into Iraq. With Saddam's propencity for harboring wanted terrorists...and supporting terrorism, we just couldn't allow Iraq to become the next Afghanistan. Especially with the resources at Saddam's disposal.
I'm so glad Hayes is staying on the 911/Al Qaeda/Iraq beat.... hardly any reporters have done any serious work on this, but he certainly has! This article should be a "MUST READ" for all of the MSM and all of the political class who want to just let things slide along in cover-up mode.
Slade Gorton on Able Danger, 8/22/2005;
“Well, in the first place, you're not going to have something that had anything to do with 9/11 unless there was some intelligence to share. And it's becoming more and more evident that there wasn't any intelligence to share. Shaffer originally said that he told our staff in Afghanistan about Mohammed Atta. He didn't. There were four people there. None of them heard it.”
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