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POTENTIALLY HUGE: Possible Saddam-Al Qaeda Link Seen in U.N. Oil-for-Food Program
FOX News ^ | Sept. 17, 2004 | Claudia Rosett and George Russell

Posted on 09/17/2004 2:59:43 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative

Did Saddam Hussein use any of his ill-gotten billions filched from the United Nations oil-for-food program to help fund Al Qaeda?

Investigations have shown that the former Iraqi dictator grafted and smuggled more than $10 billion from the program that for seven years prior to Saddam’s overthrow was meant to bring humanitarian aid to ordinary Iraqis. And the Sept. 11 Commission has shown a tracery of contacts between Saddam and Al Qaeda that continued after billions of oil-for-food dollars began pouring into Saddam’s coffers and Usama bin Laden declared his famous war on the U.S.

Now, buried in some of the United Nation’s own confidential documents, clues can be seen that underscore the possibility of just such a Saddam-Al Qaeda link — clues leading to a locked door in this Swiss lakeside resort.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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ping


41 posted on 09/17/2004 4:49:42 AM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry; supported by, financed by, trained by, guided by, revered by, in favor of, Communists.)
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To: netmilsmom
No one but the FReepers and the Blogs will ever know about it.

I wouldn't bet on that

43 posted on 09/17/2004 4:57:20 AM PDT by Mo1 (Why is the MSM calling the Vietnam Vets and POW's a suspected group??)
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To: Mo1

>>I wouldn't bet on that<<

I pray you're right!


44 posted on 09/17/2004 5:10:00 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: janvaltin

Looney article? Desperate? You sound like someone who wants something more concrete. Let me steer you to Dan Rather's 4 pages of memo's typed by a dead man. Think that might be more credible for you.


45 posted on 09/17/2004 5:10:20 AM PDT by pieces of time
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To: West Coast Conservative
This is begnning to make more sense.  Why would bin Laden issue a statement that included references to Iraq if there was no connection? 
 
http://www.ict.org.il/articles/fatwah.htm
 
Text of Fatwah Urging Jihad Against Americans

Published in Al-Quds al-'Arabi on Febuary 23, 1998

The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, still they are helpless. Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge number of those killed, in excess of 1 million... despite all this, the Americans are once against trying to repeat the horrific massacres, as though they are not content with the protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious war or the fragmentation and devastation.

Then there's this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1177581/posts

Report: Saddam offered bin Laden safe haven
Bradenton Herald ^ | JUly 24, 2004 | JIM LANDERS

In 1999, Saddam Hussein apparently invited Osama bin Laden to move to Iraq. In 2000, Iran reportedly "made a concerted effort to strengthen relations with al-Qaida."

 

And now we have this:

September 17, 2004

Evidence of intent -- but no WMD program
Details released on report by U.S. weapons inspector

Douglas Jehl, New York Times

Washington -- A new report on Iraq's illicit weapons program by the chief U.S. weapons inspector is expected to conclude that Saddam Hussein's government had a clear intent to produce nuclear, chemical and biological weapons if U.N. sanctions were lifted, government officials said Thursday.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/09/17/MNGA88QJIJ1.DTL

46 posted on 09/17/2004 5:23:05 AM PDT by Use It Or Lose It (Kerry can't run his own campaign....how could he run this country?)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Very interesting article


47 posted on 09/17/2004 5:26:49 AM PDT by nuconvert (Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
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To: netmilsmom
No one but the FReepers and the Blogs will ever know about it.

Too late. The flying monkeys are dispersing. *snicker


48 posted on 09/17/2004 5:28:44 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough (Imagine there's no Kerry, it's easy if you try... or don't try! ?)
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To: AdmSmith

Pong


49 posted on 09/17/2004 5:28:50 AM PDT by nuconvert (Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

IF this is true...its very explosive stuff. EXCELLENT article should be sent to RUSH.
Disgusting that the UN wont allow the info to be viewed?
The UN did a shoddy job of handling things in Iraq and now I am beginning to see why...too many palms were being greased.
IF Saddam was in bed with Al Qaeda...stay tuned for the left wing media to spin this.


50 posted on 09/17/2004 5:32:54 AM PDT by katiedidit1
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To: West Coast Conservative

" Among Nasreddin's holdings, for instance, is a four-star hotel in Milan, Hotel NASCO"
"A recent phone call to MIGA's shuttered office in Lugano, Switzerland, was answered by someone who picked up the phone in Milan, Italy — in the Hotel NASCO"

We've had a couple of articles posted here before on Nasreddin. I thought he was arrested at one point.


51 posted on 09/17/2004 5:33:03 AM PDT by nuconvert (Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
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To: maryz
Claudia Rosett wrote about it in the Weekly Standard on August 9th.

An Oil-for-Food Connection?

52 posted on 09/17/2004 5:43:06 AM PDT by b4its2late (John John Kerry Edwards change positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
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To: West Coast Conservative

This can't be. There's no Iraq-al-Qaeda link, CNN said so.


53 posted on 09/17/2004 5:48:43 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Gun-control is leftist mind-control.)
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To: omstrat

Why we even bother with the UN is beyond me . I've always contended that we knock down that useless building here in NYC and make a nice park at the site.""

Send the UN down the road. Without the financial support of the USA, about 85% of their budget, they will implode.

The building will find wonderful use as a corp headquarters or some such. Maybe it could be called the 9/11 building?


54 posted on 09/17/2004 5:49:48 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (ridesthemiles)
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To: katiedidit1

The UN did a shoddy job of handling things in Iraq and now I am beginning to see why...too many palms were being greased. ""

How much did Hans Blix get? He is about the most inept person for any job I have ever seen. I always suspected bribes to explain his Mr Magoo methods.


55 posted on 09/17/2004 5:54:11 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (ridesthemiles)
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bump later


56 posted on 09/17/2004 5:54:45 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (We will not deny, ignore or pass our problems along to other Presidents. ---GWBush)
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To: b4its2late
Indeed! Claudia Rosett has been on this story for the better part of 6 months. She has been a credit to 'New' journalism. Rosett is 10 times the journalist that Dan Rather ever has been.

Atos

57 posted on 09/17/2004 6:09:05 AM PDT by Mr.Atos (http://mysandmen.blogspot.com)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Question for Attorneys: Under the Patriot Act can we get a cease and desist of further funding of the United Nations by the U.S. Government?

The U.N. has been acting as a conduit to fund terrorist organizations, which is clearly illegal regardless of intent. The bank accounts of the U.N. should be frozen and there should be a legitimate investigation of what is left of the paper trail by U.S. authorities.

58 posted on 09/17/2004 6:09:27 AM PDT by True Capitalist
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To: West Coast Conservative
OCTOBER SURPRISE???
59 posted on 09/17/2004 6:12:58 AM PDT by True Capitalist
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To: West Coast Conservative

The way to investigate the UN would be to cut all power to the building, kill emergency generators, send in 1,000 rangers or marines, detain everyone in the building while we thoroughly "investigate" MR. Anan and his gang of America hating leftist thieves.


60 posted on 09/17/2004 6:26:36 AM PDT by hford02 (I'm gonna have my son's name changed to Zell.)
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