Stephen Hayes: Travels with Cheney (Vice President visits the front lines of the war on terror)

The Weekly Standard ^ | January 2, 2006 | Stephen F. Hayes

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Tran Blasts Dean: Calls for Solidarity in Iraq

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[harpu]

This substance of your post is why the demonRATs hate Cheney soooooo much! They can't even imagine their alternative to what Cheney brings to the party.

[Txsleuth]

Great article....thanks for posting..

It will be interesting to see if Hayes can get more information on the detainee...just one more link between Al-Queda and Iraq..that the dems say never existed.

Also..I heard Hayes on a TV show recently..when he said that he is frustrated that the Bush Administration has been so reluctant to release a lot of non-classified material that pretty much backs up the WMD claim...

[Marine_Uncle]

Great article. Thanks for the post.

[Valin]

bump

[Ninian Dryhope]

Stephen F. Hayes is not an impressive reporter. He spends too much time telling us what color the VP's shirt is and what type of hiking boots he has on and how the goings on affect him and too little about what matters. In addition, he has the typical sarcastic, smartass attitude of the average liberal reporter even though he is working for a conservative magazine.

[RWR8189]

I suggest you read his book, The Connection, you might think differently of him.

In it he chronicles in great detail the connection between al-Qeada and Saddam's Iraq.

[piasa]

"I asked specifically about an al Qaeda member detained in Khuzdar, Pakistan, in July 2002. I had been trying to obtain additional information about this detainee since March, when the Pentagon released a provocative "Summary of Evidence" describing his activities. It describes him as a former member of the Iraqi army who was recruited by the Taliban in Baghdad in 1994. He joined al Qaeda, lived at an al Qaeda camp, and received payments from Osama bin Laden. According to the Pentagon document:

From 1997 to 1998, the detainee acted as a trusted agent for Usama Bin Ladin, executing three separate reconnaissance missions for the al Qaeda leader in Oman, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of blowing up the Pakistan, United States and British embassies with chemical mortars.

A Musharraf spokesman put me on the phone with Major General Shaukat Sultan, a spokesman for the Pakistani army. Sultan said he vaguely remembered the capture, and promised to provide additional details in the coming days."

[piasa]

...if Cheney's language this week is any indication, it appears the Bush administration will continue to make the case aggressively that Americans are better off because of its conduct of national security policy, including the Iraq war.

That effort will likely include the release of documents and other materials captured in postwar Iraq. In recent weeks, senior Bush administration and intelligence officials have been discussing several plans to expedite the public release of those materials. According to officials familiar with their contents, the documents provide an unfiltered look inside a criminal regime that brutalized its own citizens, bought off numerous European politicians, and provided significant support to transregional terrorists.

[piasa]

This article mentions the detainee in question:

The Mother of All Connections (New evidence of collaboration between Saddam's Iraq and al Qaeda)"

[angkor]

A decent article marred by only a little bit of whining:

Journalists and secret service personnel were relegated to canvas and steel seats that folded down from the sides of the plane.....we had been traveling-and awake-for 30 hours.

Those canvas and steel seats are the same ones enjoyed by the troops. Be a man, grin and bear it.

[ScaniaBoy]

bump!

[Miss Marple]

Buried in this article is information about a mysterious detainee that Pakistan is holding. Thought you might like to know.

[ken5050]

BTTT!!! a must read..

[Ninian Dryhope]

After I posted my comment, I did goggle him, and I did find an interview with him right after the war in which he seemed to do a good job of providing some of those connections. Looking back on his comments then, I note that his theories have found little traction, even among conservatives.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"I thought the administration might have oversold the importance of Abu Musab Zarqawi, the al Qaeda affiliate who went to Baghdad for "medical treatment" after the war in Afghanistan. He had a starring role in Colin Powell's presentation before the UN Security Council this time last year. It looks like I was wrong. He seems to have been a central figure in pre-war Iraq/al Qaeda collaboration and, more troubling, is helping to recruit terrorists and coordinate anti-coalition activities in Iraq now. Investigations in Germany and Italy are turning up new things on Zarqawi almost daily."

The Al-Qaeda/Saddam Link, By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 28, 2004
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11946

[Fedora]

Thanks! I find the timing intereting: Yossef Bodansky reports that on August 31, 1998 Hassan al-Turabi received approval from Iraqi VP Ramadan for a request that in the event Al Qaeda had to vacate Afghanistan it could rebase in Iraq. Bodansky describes relations between AQ and Iraq re-opening at this time as a function of rapprochement between the Saudis and Iraq.

[Dog]

Khuzdar, Pakistan is north of Karachi..

Cap see post 9.....we have a mystery guest in custody.

[Dog]

I found out who it is...google is my best friend.

He is from Aussieland.....meet Mamdouh Habib....he is linked to the blind Shiek who bombed the WTC in 93..