NEW CLAIM OF IRAQ-QAEDA TIE

New York Post ^ | 3/01/03 | JOHN LEHMANN

[kattracks]

March 1, 2003 -- A Manhattan federal judge heard yesterday how Iraq had trained Islamic terrorists at a secret camp where simulated hijackings were carried out.

Lawyers for families of two Sept. 11 victims suing Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden for more than $1 million said al Qaeda officials had meetings with Iraqis including Saddam.

[js1138]

send in th lawyers.

[Republican_Strategist]

The Iraqi-Bin Laden Connection

Freeper Resource: What Team Saddam Doesn’t Want You To Know!

[Robert_Paulson2]

and sadaam thought he had trouble with George Bush and the United States Marines...

now the trial lawyers got him....

these folks will get millions in damages, to be paid for by the proceeds of oil in Iraq... oh my... and the trial lawyers will give their cut to hillary...

< heh heh >

[sauropod]

Anti-war conservatives say that this meeting never occurred and that it has been debunked.

I sure would like a definitive answer about this.

[piasa]

Atta met al-Ani...and he did so on more than one occasion. Several, actually. And he's not the only hijacker to meet with Iraqi agents and "diplomats," at least two others did as well, although in their cases it was in the Middle east and not Prague.

Ther's more proof, travel docs, and named sources both US and Czech on those meetings than there is on other things the press routinely assumes is true.

Yet the same people who diss the meetings are more than willing to accept swill from unnamed sources as true.

[Momaw Nadon]

Attack on Iraq Betting Pool

[monocle]

I think too much effort is being expended on attempting to prove an ongoing working relationship between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government because the socialists and their followers put this issue in play knowing full well the futility of undercovering irrefutable evidence of such a relationship. My view is the al Qaeda is acting as an organized group of professional hitmen available for hire. As we know in this country individual contracts for killings by professional hitmen are not very susceptible to proof in the absence of confessions generally given as a result of plea bargaining or grants of immunity. Terrorist acts contracted by the intelligency agencies of despotic governments are even more difficult to prove. I think Saddam views al Qaeda as just another delivery system for his weapons of mass destruction or other terror inducing tactics. This latter view is somewhat confirmed by the antiwar activists constant harping that a war would only incite further terrorist acts by outside Iraq.

[piasa]

My view is the al Qaeda is acting as an organized group of professional hitmen available for hire.

Bingo.

That's why so many people don't get it- they're all assuming there has to be an ideological mind-meld for there to be a link and so, they insist there is no link.

There are quite a tidy number of links surfacing though, regardless of the efforts to diss them. It's just that every time some links come up, they are ignored because they don't fit in with their preconceived agenda.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for your post!

There were challenges, but as far as I know, it has not been debunked. It and all things pointing to Iraq in the anthrax attacks have been obscured - we suspect in order to buy time for the US, UK, Israel, etc. to stockpile drugs and develop methods to deal with a biochem WMD before correcting the situation in Iraq.