Documents link Saddam, bin Laden

The Tennessean ^ | 7/11/03 | GILBERT S. MERRITT

[Callahan]

Federal appellate Judge Gilbert S. Merritt of Nashville is in Iraq as one of 13 experts selected by the U.S. Justice Department to help rebuild Iraq's judicial system.

Through an unusual set of circumstances, I have been given documentary evidence of the names and positions of the 600 closest people in Iraq to Saddam Hussein, as well as his ongoing relationship with Osama bin Laden.

[Callahan]

According to well-known blogger Glenn Reynolds, who clerked for Judge Merrit, the author is a Democrat and highly respected for his integrity. This would certainly take the sting off the Nigerian uranium harping were it to get wide play. Somebody call Fox.

[BCrago66]

Duplicate post.

[JohnGalt]

It's old news.

First reported in a mid-May Weekly Standard. The CIA and DoD does not (apparently) think much of it.

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[jnarcus]

No smoking gun??? well that's what all the deniers will say. Laurie Mylorie had a lot of this covered in her works...For all the nay sayers IT'S SADDAM STUPID....now if only the "big" media will cover this information

[Callahan]

I didn't find it.

[JohnGalt]

People weren't as desperate for evidence that they were not duped in May. Now, apparently, they will hang their hat on anything.

[Dr. Frank fan]

The CIA and DoD does not (apparently) think much of it.

I do.

[JohnGalt]

I am so surprised.

[Callahan]

So the administration enlists the help of a Democratic judge? If he buys, why wouln't the average joe?

[Callahan]

Please provide a link to the duplicate.

[JohnGalt]

Because the average Joe doesn't like being used, I guess, or were you asking rhetorically?

[No Truce With Kings]

Please provide a link to the duplicate.

This one Document links Saddam, bin Laden posted by Free Vietnam or

This one Document links Saddam, bin Laden posted by BCrago66?

[Redbob]

You fail to note that this was published in the Tennessean on June 25th.

The accompanying article also had this to say:

"The newspaper list of top Iraqi officials that Judge Merritt describes in the accompanying article was also the subject of a mid-May report in the Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine. The list, published in an Iraqi newspaper before the U.S. invasion, has received little public attention elsewhere.

The magazine noted, as did Merritt, that one person on the list was characterized as being in charge of relations with Osama bin Laden at the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan. The magazine also mentioned that the list was prefaced by this puzzling passage:

''This is a list of the henchmen of the regime. Our hands will reach them sooner or later. Woe unto them.''

Since the list was published in a newspaper run by Saddam Hussein's son, it was not clear why this passage would have been allowed to appear.

{Take this all for what it's worth}

[GailA]

Yes, he's a demoRAT.