[cgk]

Thanks for the post!

LAURIE MYLROIE PING!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Ramzi Yousef was the one who ran up a couple thousand dollars worth of phone bills calling Iraq after the 1993 bombing right?

[GOPJ]

bump

[S.S. Monkeyface]

Bump.

Was Ramzi Yousef an Iraqi agent?

[NutCrackerBoy]

In the 1992 presidential campaign, I was Clinton's adviser on Iraq; in later encounters with the White House, I found it strongly resistant to hearing about evidence linking Saddam to terrorism. -Laurie Mylroie

President Clinton's "allergy" to tying Saddam to terrorism isn't explained here, but I assume it is because action against state sponsorship of terrorism would have:
1. gummed up the already weak efficacies (but good PR) of lollipop diplomacy and
2. militated away from the law enforcement approach to terrorism which he (and most of the whole risk-averse establishment) was loathe to abandon.

[marron]

Ramsi was nick-named "the Iraqi" by his New Jersey cohorts. Of course he arrived from Iraq on an Iraqi passport, in response to a request from Abdul Rahman Yasin, another Iraqi agent. But native arabic speakers would know the difference between an arab speaking with an Iraqi accent, and a south asian speaking with an Iranian or Pakistani accent, I would think.

So I tend to think he is not Baluch, but Iraqi, and his Baluch identity is just part of his cover.

[cgk]

Mylroie: "Saddam's Fingerprints on N.Y. Bombings" (1993)

[Albertafriend]

I've been reading Perfect Soldiers by Terry McDermot. He is a LA times reporter who was given the assignment to go anywhere and take as much time as needed to discover who the hijackers were and why they did what they did. It is an absolutely fascinating and well-written book even if he does work for the LAT. Everyone should read this. I got it from the library and if your library doesn't have it, request they buy it. I may even buy a copy of it to loan out to some people.

[LonePalm]

Self Ping for later read.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[april15Bendovr]

Interesting CNN chat room discussion with Laurie Mylroie

Laurie Mylroie: Is Iraq involved with U.S. terror attacks?

October 29, 2001 Posted: 2:36 PM EST (1936 GMT)

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/10/29/mylroie/

[Fedora]

Ping.

[woofie]

This is a great post!!!! Thanks

[april15Bendovr]

Why are the left wing websites saying things like this "Wolfowitz was a leading champion of the theories of Iraq academic Laurie Mylroie that Saddam was connected to al-Qaeda, theories that has been discredited by the 9-11 Commission and more recently"

The American Prospect

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12059

How exactly do liberals think that the 9/11 commission discredited Laurie Mylroie? The only thing The 9/11 Commission has done with Laurie Malorie's testimony is ignore it.

[piasa]

“Severely Punish Perpetrators”: China To Pak After Its Citizens Attacked
Balochistan, the gift that keeps on giving:

NDTV ^ | 8/13/2023
Posted on 8/13/2023, 7:19:17 PM by Right Wing Vegan

The Chinese embassy “strongly” condemned the terror attack on the convoy carrying 23 Chinese engineers in Balochistan and warned Pakistan to take effective measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again....