More Damning Documents On Saddam ~<b>Origins Of War:</b>~~ Why won't Washington get the word out?

Investors Business Daily ^ | 4/7/2006 | staff

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The latest in a stream of eye-opening Iraqi documents shows Saddam Hussein's regime was planning suicide attacks on U.S. interests six months before 9-11. Why won't Washington get the word out?

Last month the Pentagon began releasing records captured during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Among the documents is a letter dated March 11, 2001, written by Abdel Magid Hammod Ali, one of Saddam's air force generals.

According to an unofficial translation, Page 6 of the letter asks for "the names of those who desire to volunteer for suicide mission to liberate Palestine and to strike American interests."

Assuming the document's accuracy, this shows that Saddam's regime was not only providing aid and support for terrorist organizations of other countries. It was also planning its own bombings directed at U.S. facilities and personnel.

As counterterrorism consultant Dan Darling wrote last week on the Weekly Standard's Web site, that would mean Russian intelligence services under Vladimir Putin were better informed about Iraq's terrorist abilities than the U.S. spy community.

Though little noticed by the press, during a July 2004 visit to Kazakhstan the Russian president said that between 9-11 and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, "Russian special services and Russian intelligence several times received . . . information that official organs of Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist acts on the territory of the U.S. and beyond its borders, at U.S. military and civilian locations."

This new document, said Darling, "would seem to refute a long-standing contention among members of the U.S. intelligence community that Iraq ceased its involvement in international terrorism after its failed 1993 plot to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush." Darling cites former National Security Council official Richard Clarke's book "Against all Enemies," which contends that the NSC, the CIA and the FBI all agreed Iraq posed no terrorist threat to the U.S.

[tcrlaf]

<<>> But, the Libs claim that Atta was NEVER in Prague, despite the the confirmation from Czech(?) intelligence!

[angcat]

But what puzzles me is President Bush also spoke and said he had to finally admit there were no WMD in Iraq.


Link?

[sauropod]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See this link on thread referenced above:

The Timing Of The Iraqi Air Force Memo

[Spunky]

I said: "But what puzzles me is President Bush also spoke and said he had to finally admit there were no WMD in Iraq (or something like that)."

From This Link: Bush Will Watch What He Says in Second Term

"The White House acknowledged Wednesday that there is no longer an active search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The final report from chief U.S. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer, due out next month, has concluded that "the former regime had no formal written strategy or plan for the revival of WMD."

The Bush administration does not hold out hopes that any weapons will ever be found.

"I felt like we'd find weapons of mass destruction — like many here in the United States, many around the world. The United Nations thought he had weapons of mass destruction," Bush told Walters. "So, therefore: one, we need to find out what went wrong in the intelligence gathering.Saddam was dangerous and the world is safer without him in power."

To me that statement shows he conceded to ALL THE REPORTS (The UN Report,(Kay) and the US Report,(Duelfer) that there were no WMD.

[angcat]

Thanks!

[rwfromkansas]

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[hosepipe]

[ More Damning Documents On Saddam Origins Of War: Why won't Washington get the word out? ]

BECAUSE the White House does not another major distraction from the Mexican Border yet.. They DO they just don't see it yet..

[rwfromkansas]

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