Posted on 09/25/2006 2:55:48 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
Thanks for the post!
LAURIE MYLROIE PING!
"Yet the Clinton administration did not want to hear this. (In the 1992 presidential campaign, I was Clinton's adviser on Iraq; in later encounters with the White House, I found it strongly resistant to hearing about evidence linking Saddam to terrorism.)"
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Statement of Laurie Mylroie to the
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
July 9, 2003
http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing3/witness_mylroie.htm
In addition, two of Ramzi Yousef's older brothers--Abdul Karim and Abdul Monim-have been identified as al Qaeda masterminds, capable of assuming Mohammed's role. Also, an individual, Ali Abdul Aziz, who played an important role in the financial transfers involved in the 9/11 attacks, is said to be Yousef's "younger cousin."
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Was Ramzi Yousef an Iraqi agent?
THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMB: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters (1993)
The National Interest ^ | Winter, 1995/96 | Laurie Mylroie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/521246/posts
Mohammed Salameh--Palestinian fundamentalist, Nosair accomplice and early plotter; left a trail of phone calls to Iraq.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/521246/posts
Ramzi Yousef, a.k.a. Abdul Basit Karim -the key man; likely Iraqi agent.
President Clinton's "allergy" to tying Saddam to terrorism isn't explained here, but I assume it is because action against state sponsorship of terrorism would have:
1. gummed up the already weak efficacies (but good PR) of lollipop diplomacy and
2. militated away from the law enforcement approach to terrorism which he (and most of the whole risk-averse establishment) was loathe to abandon.
Thank you for the links. I have much reading to do.
Thank you for your interest.
important stuff.
Mylrioe's consistent argument has been that Clinton changed US Policy which previously had as a default setting regarded terrorism as state sponsored, and therefore immediately devoted resources upon such events (e.g. Lockerbie) to look for the sponsor. Only in the Clinton administration was it assumed without investigation (of state sponsorship) that the terrorist act (1993 WTC) was a law enforcement issue. Mylroie makes the point that the Justice Dept./FBI did not attempt to look for evidence of state sponsorship and the CIA / State Department was refused access to evidence that might have helped determined state sponsorship. Such policy induced myopia even left Richard Clarke saying that as to the 1995 supposedly domestic terrorism at Oklahoma City, it was known that Terry Nichols and Ramsey Yusef were in CEBU city (Phillipines) at the same time, and it is also known that before Nichols went there his bombs were ineffective and that when he came back they were devasting. As well it is established Nichols continued to make numerous calls to CEBU on his return, when he had no apparent reason to be calling there, unless it was to talk to Yusef.
Yusef of course was tied directly to the mid 90's plot to simulatenously blow up multiple passenger aircraft.
Mylroie has consistently made the point that abundant evidence exists to conclude Yusef was an Iraqi intell agent. This article for the first time, I have seen, persuasively explains the connection to and rise of Al-Queda.
All of which took place under the protection of the Gorelick Wall and similar policy imposed restrictions.
Ramsi was nick-named "the Iraqi" by his New Jersey cohorts. Of course he arrived from Iraq on an Iraqi passport, in response to a request from Abdul Rahman Yasin, another Iraqi agent. But native arabic speakers would know the difference between an arab speaking with an Iraqi accent, and a south asian speaking with an Iranian or Pakistani accent, I would think.
So I tend to think he is not Baluch, but Iraqi, and his Baluch identity is just part of his cover.
9/11 COMMISSION IGNORED KEY FACTS ON HIJACKERS
By Michelle Malkin · August 11, 2005 07:44 AM
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003223.htm
The 9/11 Commission was supposed to give the America people a complete, unbiased story of the government failures that led up to the September 11 terrorist attacks. But the Commission now admits its acclaimed Final Report ignored key information provided by a U.S. Army data mining project, Able Danger, which identified Mohammed Atta and several other hijackers as potential terrorists prior to the September 11 attacks. The Able Danger team recommended that Atta and the other suspected terrorists be deported. That recommendation, however, was not shared with law enforcement officials, presumably because of the "wall" between intelligence activities and domestic law enforcement.
Memos show Gorelick involvement in 'wall'
By Charles Hurt and Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040429-122228-6538r.htm
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