Posted on 03/07/2003 11:05:42 AM PST by kattracks
Former CIA Director James Woolsey offered bombshell testimony this week in a lawsuit brought by the families of World Trade Center victims that implicates Saddam Hussein in the 9/11 attacks.
The one-time Clinton administration intelligence chief described what he said was a conspiracy between al Qaeda and Baghdad. As evidence he offered accounts from Iraqi defectors who have described a Boeing 707 jet parked on the ground at the terrorist training camp Salman Pak. The plane, the eyewitnesses insist, was used as a hijacking school prior to 9/11.
Since 1995 Saddam's most elite terror operatives had allegedly used Salman Pak to train al Qaeda recruits to overcome U.S. flight crews using methods employed on 9/11, according to London's Observer newspaper. In Nov. 2001, dozens of other reports, including several in the New York Times, covered news of Saddam's Salman Pak hijacking school based on the defectors' accounts.
"I believe it is definitely more likely than not that some degree of common knowledge between (al Qaeda and Iraq) was involved here," Woolsey told a Manhattan Federal Court on Monday, according to the New York Daily News.
He compared the relationship between Baghdad and Osama bin Laden's terror network to two Mafia families "who hate each other, kill each other from time to time but are still capable of working together against a common enemy," according to testimony quoted by the Associated Press.
At the very least, Saddam Hussein is guilty of aiding and abetting the activities of al-Qaeda, Woolsey contended.
He also offered evidence suggesting that Baghdad had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks.
A July 21, 2001 article in an Egyptian newspaper article headlined, "America, an Obsession with Osama bin Laden" indicated that Baghdad knew what was coming three months later, the former U.S. intelligence chief told the court. The report, written by an Iraqi, predicted bin Laden would target both New York City and the Pentagon.
Woolsey noted a line in the story that predicted bin Laden would "strike America on the arm that is already hurting," explaining that the phrase was likely a reference to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
No Iraqi journalist would write such a report without his government's knowledge and approval, Woolsey testified.
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
TWA Flight 800 couldn't possibly have been hit by a Stinger missile from the fast boat on the radar track--and oddly now Hillary Clinton says our airports are not safe from Stinger missiles.
Robert Baer in See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War On Terrorism says Osama bin Laden has met with Iraqi intelligence officers since the late '80's.
Despite the muddying of the waters by George Tenet's CIA (read CYA) Mohammad Atta met twice in Prague with Iraqi intelligence agents.
Robert Baer indicates Islamic Jihad is "a term of art" for Iran, and that it did the 1983 Beirut Embassy bombing.
Bill Gertz reports Iran's involvement in the Khobar Towers attack in 1996.
Osama is behind the African Embassy bombings in 1998 and the Cole bombing--Gertz points to an OBL video preceding that.
Throughout the coordination of attacks on the Great Satan by all these and more players, the CIA and FBI have jealously guarded turf, hogged intel, and killed the messenger.
And they took their cue from the president John Millis called "the worst for counterintel"--before Millis sucked a shotgun in the Breezeway Motel: traitorrapist42.
The president who had much, much more time for Monica Lewinsky and Yassir Arafat than DCI James Woolsey.
For those open to truth no further evidence of interlinkage of terrorists is necessary;
For those closed to it, none will suffice.
On to Baghdad.
Robert Baer, See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War On Terrorism, Crown, 2002.
Bill Gertz, Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11, Regnery, 2002.
Someday the truth will be revealed for most to believe. In the meantime, on to Baghdad posthaste.
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