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1999 ABC News Report : The Osama - Hussein Connection Radio America ^ | January 1999 | ABC News 1999 ABC News Report : The Osama - Hussein Connection http://www.radioamerica.org/audio/MR_ABC-Osama-Hussein-connections.mp3 Here is a transcript of the linked MP3 file. -- Sheila MacVicar, ABC News, January 14, 1999 '". . . [Mamdouh Mahmud] Salim, alleged to be a key military advisor and believed to be privy to bin Laden's most secret projects, is also apprehended. The US government alleges that he was under secret orders to procure enriched uranium for the purpose of developing nuclear weapons. These are allegations bin Laden...

Gather round, and I shall teach you a new game, called “Michael Moore’s Mystery Message.” It is a fun game, really; you get to see a film, visit a colorful website, manage a few ironic laughs at someone who seeks to make you laugh at President Bush, and, at the end, receive a grand prize. What is this prize? That is a mystery to be unraveled, much like Michael Moore’s message. Are you ready? Watching Michael Moore’s film, “Fahrenheit 9/11,” you get to look at pretty pictures of Iraq as a children’s paradise under the benevolent regime of Saddam Hussein....

By KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writer TIKRIT, Iraq - U.S. soldiers stormed three houses near Saddam Hussein's hometown on Saturday and detained four suspects, two believed linked to the ousted leader's special security force, the U.S. military said. Also Saturday, U.S. troops of the 4th Infantry Division arrested seven suspected insurgents and seized about 50 Kalashnikov rifles during raids near Baqouba. Iraqi firefighters also extinguished a blaze at a pipeline in northern Iraq. Officials suspected sabotage. During one of the Tikrit raids, troops questioned a man in his 50s who a U.S. commander said had worked in Saddam's Special Security...

Elected Officials Enter Your ZIP Code: or Search by State · Contact The Media Enter Your ZIP Code: or Search by State Links and services provided by Capitol Advantage   Presidential Elections - AP Clinton Rally Delights Iowa Democrats 1 hour, 59 minutes ago By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer INDIANOLA, Iowa - Former President Clinton (news - web sites) touted a field of Democratic contenders he said was the strongest in decade, and launched a spirited assault on a Bush administration he said governs through "ideology, enemies and attacks." AP Photo   "The last election was tight as a...

Major Garrett is reporting on Foxnews that US Military Forces in the Persian Gulf region will be reduced dramatically soon because of the fall of the Iraqi regime...developing. This is also helpful inserts Major Garrett because Al-Queda's major recruiting point is that America has forces in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East... Take that you Liberals who thought bombing Iraq would further "Irritate" Al-Queda!

FOX NEWS has reported that Saddam is either dead or severely wounded as he was believed to be in the compound that was recently struch by B-117 bombers

ISLAMABAD, 11 March 2003 — Pakistan’s chief intelligence agency, in an unprecedented briefing to foreign media, confirmed yesterday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said he last met Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden in December at an unknown location. “KSM (Sheikh Mohammed) confirmed he met Bin Laden in December,” a senior Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) official told some three dozen foreign correspondents at ISI headquarters in the capital Islamabad. However Khalid, who was captured in an ISI-led raid on a private home in the northern city of Rawalpindi on March 1, told interrogators that he did not know “the exact destination.” “I...

<p>Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion.</p> <p>A former Canadian resident is a key commander and ideologue with Ansar al-Islam, a group the United States considers to be the terrorist link between Al Qaeda and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, says a captured Ansar member.</p> <p>Ali and another Ansar prisoner interviewed by the Star, 20-year-old Didar Khaled Khedr, said two former Iraqi intelligence agents are among Ansar's leaders - Abu Zurbeh and Abu Wahil.</p>

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Tommy Franks will be in total charge of Iraq immediately after the war, but will be supported shortly thereafter by three civilian administrators, each in charge of a different geographic sector of the country, Pentagon officials said Friday. Iraq would be divided into thirds for administrative purposes -- northern, southern and central sectors. The borders of those areas have not been established, according to the Pentagon officials, but the southern sector is expected to be demographically dominated by Shiites and the northern sector by Kurds. Boundary lines would be determined by existing major...

Report: France will not use its Security Council veto Tue Mar 4, 2:57 PM ET PARIS - France has all but ruled out using its veto in the U.N. Security Council to block a U.S.-backed resolution paving the way for war on Iraq (news - web sites), a weekly newspaper reported in its Wednesday edition. Le Canard enchaine quoted President Jacques Chirac as telling a small private gathering on Feb. 26 that a veto would be pointless because it would not stop U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) from launching military action. "France is doing everything it...

March 10 issue — In the top drawer of his desk in the Oval Office, President George W. Bush keeps a list of the most-wanted Qaeda operatives. Whenever one is captured or killed, he crosses his name off. Last week the president was able to draw a line through a very big name, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, regarded by U.S. intelligence services as the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks. March 1 — The suspected mastermind of the 9/11 attacks against the U.S., Kalid Shaik Mohamed was arrested in Pakistan. NBC’s Pete Williams reports. MOHAMMED WAS NABBED by police at a hiding...

Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Vanishes NewsMax's correspondent at the United Nations, Stewart Stogel, says Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohammed Aldouri is missing. Aldouri decided to take an "overdue" home leave during the week of Dec. 15. He told NewsMax it would be the first time to return home and visit relatives in more than a year. The ambassador said he would return to New York and his U.N. post on Jan. 15. He hasn't. Inquiries to the Iraqi mission have resulted in "moving dates" as to just when Aldouri will return. At the beginning of this past week, a senior Iraq diplomat...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said Monday he was not losing any sleep over a possible U.S. invasion of his country. The United States is massing forces in the Gulf for a possible war over Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction program. Iraq denies having such weapons. "I can assure you and put your minds at ease that I rarely find it difficult to sleep," Saddam told senior army officers, including his son Qusay, supervisor of the elite Republican Guards. "I fall asleep as soon as I put my head on the pillow. I don't need sleeping pills,...

I was watching Fox and Friends this morning, and they said that Michael Jackson is moving next door to Rush Limbaugh! Can anybody confirm this?

Whats going on at Foxnews? I've been watching Foxnews on and off all day as always and am noticing quite an anti-war sentiment coming from many of the guests they have had on. It seems to me that Fox is subtly pumping anti-war rhetoric over the air waves. It isn't really coming as much from the hosts as much as the guests that they are putting on. First we had Greg Jarret (unabashed liberal) interviewing a former U.N. Weapons Inspector about the costs of the war. He asked how long it was going to take, and started insinuating we were...

The Nutty Professor The other day a friend of mine forwarded an account of an e-mail exchange between a cadet at the Air Force Academy and a professor at St. Xavier University. The cadet was innocently informing the college about an event called The Academy Assembly, a gathering where political subjects are discussed and inquiring about the best methods of advertising in the St. Xavier area. The letter ended up in the hands of a certain professor, Peter Kirstein, and here is the professor’s reply: “You are a disgrace to this country and I’m furious you would even think I...

Ashamed of the Red, White & Blue Award First Place Phil Donahue: “Let me tell you what is impressive. You’re not wearing a flag. Well, I don’t want to damn you with my praise, but I say hip-hip-hooray for that, and I think you gave the right answer when you spoke at Northwestern University....” Tom Brokaw: “Right. I said, you know, I wear a flag in my heart, but I think if you wear a flag, it’s a suggestion somehow that you’re endorsing what the administration is doing at the time. And I don’t think journalists ought to be wearing...

Sex Secrets of the Clonaid Group developing on Drudge....developing..breaking..

Saudis Will Allow Use of Bases Saudi Arabia has told American military officials that the kingdom would make its airspace, air bases and an important operations center available to the United States in the event of war with Iraq, the NEW YORK TIMES is reporting in Sunday editions.. MORE...

Jimmy Carter offers to mediate peace talks between Israel and Palestinians... developing...

Cairo - Perhaps it was the report picked up from Western media claiming that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had reached a secret deal with Libya to provide sanctuary for his family and inner circle in exchange for several billion dollars. Or maybe it was the repeated criticism of fellow Arab leaders, whom Hussein has been trying to win over in his effort to head off a U.S. attack. Whatever the reason, the Iraqi government was not saying yesterday why it had banned a newspaper owned by Hussein's eldest son, Uday, from publishing for a month. The tabloid, Babel, is widely...

Is there a place on the web where it logs all of the abuses of Saddam's son Uday? How is he compared to Qusay?? I have heard there are many stories on the web, but I can't find them.

<p>With war looming in Iraq, it's more crucial than ever to get cogent analysis of the country and its despotic leader, so what does Cinemax offer? Irony. Smarmy, smarmy irony. "Uncle Saddam," which airs Tuesday night on the cable station, gives viewers an exclusive look inside the palaces, museums and other edifices that Hussein maintains on Iraqi soil, and it also provides a time line of Hussein's life, from his troubled childhood to his post-Kuwait grip on power. Filmmaker Joel Soler does it with so much snideness and smugness, however, that his movie is almost unwatchable.</p>

The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of Saddam Hussein By MATT ZOLLER SEITZ c.2002 Newhouse News Service NEW YORK -- As the United States prepares to go to war with Iraq, "Uncle Saddam," a new documentary about Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, would seem to fall under the heading, "Know thine enemy." But this film by French director Joel Soler is so full of weird, unpleasant details that viewers might classify it under a different heading: "More Information Than I Needed." Combining testimony from Saddam's cabinet ministers, video footage from Saddam's official chroniclers and news snippets from Middle Eastern sources, "Uncle...

The daring documentarian By Darroch Greer Video Systems, Feb 1, 2002 Documentary maker Joel Soler is a patriotic Frenchman who does not take the blue, white, and red of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” for granted. With his small DV camera, Soler is taking on the brutal oppressors of the world — Hitler, Hussein, and bin Laden — single-handedly going where few Westerners dare to tread, and exposing the deranged designs of these enemies of freedom. This may sound a bit like a comic book, but Soler's story has plenty of action, intrigue, and humor. A former television producer in France, Soler...

Iraq's Crazy Uncle Joel Soler's documentary looks at Saddam Hussein's foibles. by Rufus Jones 11/19/2002 12:00:00 AM FOR AS LONG as there has been a Saddam Hussein, Saddam scholars have been confronted by a question with no easy answer: just what kind of crazy is he? He reigns by terror at home, while preying on anti-American sentiment among the conflict-averse abroad. So is Saddam calculated-crazy, crazy like the cross-dressing, discharge-seeking Klinger character in "M*A*S*H," crazy like a fox? Or is he certifiable, driving-with-one's-lights-on-dim, two-pence-short-of-a-bob crazy? Some say he evidences that special brand of tin-pot dictator crazy--the kind of crazy that...

<p>CNN) -- A French filmmaker finagled his way into Iraq claiming he was working on a project about the country's architecture. Two months after his arrival, with Iraqi power brokers feeling comfortable with his presence, Joel Soler began shooting his actual project, a documentary about Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein.</p>

Two years ago, Joel Soler chose to go on a dangerous journey to the Middle East to shoot an irreverent biography of a dictator who was then, in Mr. Soler's words, "a dead story." Now the subject of "Uncle Saddam," which is being shown Tuesday on Cinemax, is probably the world's most talked-about person. As the world debates about war with Iraq, Mr. Soler's film introduces a strange new perspective on Saddam Hussein. Did you know that Saddam likes to be greeted with a kiss near the armpit? That he sometimes fishes with grenades? That he is building the world's...