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Mohammed Atta met Saddam prior to September 11: US official
Agence France-Presse
| September 8, 2002
Posted on 09/08/2002 7:36:33 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: The Great Satan; Nogbad; keri
Vice Pres. Cheney, on Meet the Press today, said that the intelligence report of Atta meeing an Iraqi agent in Prague was "credible," but he did add that it was "unconfirmed."
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posted on
09/08/2002 11:09:50 AM PDT
by
Mitchell
To: The Great Satan
Atta may not have met Saddam, but it is amusing to note
there is a Scottish Labour MP (whose name I forget)
who is a strong supporter of Saddam
and who claims to have met with him in his bunker
some 300 feet underground.
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posted on
09/08/2002 11:15:34 AM PDT
by
Nogbad
To: HardStarboard
I agree with you - I should have noted that I was being sarcastic.
To: HAL9000
Bush, Blair Discuss Iraq, Say Have Evidence to Act "...Pentagon ( news - web sites) adviser Richard Perle, a driving force behind the campaign to overthrow Saddam, said on Saturday he saw no reason for Bush to seek support from the U.N. Security Council before pressing ahead with military action.
"The American president has a responsibility to defend the American people. Chirac has no responsibility to defend the American people," Perle said.
"If you go to the U.N. and it refuses, it creates a problem. You can't go unless you are sure you can get approval," he told reporters at a conference in Italy...."
To: HAL9000
I couldn't find this story on the Web site of
IL SOLE 24 ORE. Maybe somebody with better searching skills can find it.
Michael Ledeen, you know the Italian press. What do you know about this outfit?
To: HAL9000
Dynamite link, Hal. I've bookmarked it. Thank you!
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posted on
09/08/2002 11:26:22 AM PDT
by
MaeWest
To: aristeides
I've searched that site too, and could not find it. They also have audio news, but I don't have the bandwidth or knowledge of the Italian language to check it out.
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posted on
09/08/2002 11:29:58 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: elfman2
"If this is truth, why doesn't Bush just get on the air and make this public? Why does it have to be leaked to Ile Sole which is in turn quoted by AFP?"To conceal our intentions.
Oh that's rich! To conceal our intentions?!? You must not have been paying attention over the past year. Bush Jr. has had a woody for Saddam ever since he got into office, everyone knows it.
Now they are leaking BS reports of collaboration between Atta and Saddam as justification. And they don't leak to the washington post or nytime who might actyually investigate and gather background. No, they leak so some third-world italian rag and the leaker is not a top-level official but several levels down on the totem pole. That way they have some plausible deniablity if anyone comes up with proof that Atta was never in Iraq.
I agree with all here that this is a tried and true tractic, but I disagree with anyone who finds this report credible. It is fun to watch, but only because most of you suckers that think you are so politically sophisticated just eat this up. Some here obviously have a clue, but most clearly don't.
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posted on
09/08/2002 11:30:19 AM PDT
by
clamboat
To: HAL9000
69
posted on
09/08/2002 11:35:43 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
So this story appears nowhere in the US press - only overseas.
To: HAL9000
So this story appears nowhere in the US press - only overseas.
To: HAL9000
The spanish version does not appear to mention the Italian source.
To: HAL9000
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posted on
09/08/2002 1:14:37 PM PDT
by
ppaul
To: HAL9000
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posted on
09/08/2002 1:21:38 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: gunshy
I wish it would be explained how the US would go about doing what you suggest. It sounds so easy but in reality I don't think it would be.
To: clamboat
"Oh that's rich!
You must not have been paying attention
Bush Jr. has had a woody for Saddam ever since he got into office, everyone knows it.
BS reports
don't leak to the washington post or nytime who might actyually investigate
third-world italian rag
levels down on the totem pole.
most of you suckers that think you are so politically sophisticated just eat this up." That reads as if you were masturbating when you wrote it instead of thinking (or spelling). A release of pure conjecture, apparently motivated by a pent-up load of bitterness toward Bush and his supporters.
Of course we must not have anything on Saddam, and Bush is just exercising his "woody". There's no point in acting as if "there's no plan on his desk" and he's undecided, that couldn't possibly further our objectives. And there couldn't possibly be another explanation for not releasing this to your preferred source, "the washington post or nytime". After all, they're the first place Bush goes when he wants something released. Thank you for your input.
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posted on
09/08/2002 1:41:39 PM PDT
by
elfman2
To: HAL9000
That's about all we need to know, isn't it?
- Gin
To: austingirl
For anyone who is paying attention, it is a time when the demarcation between politicians and statesmen becomes rather apparent, and rather critical.
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posted on
09/08/2002 1:48:40 PM PDT
by
TheDon
To: The Great Satan
"My guess is that Perle actually spoke of Atta's meeting with Saddam's agent in Prague, and this report is a sloppy, garbled version of that. I would be most surprised if Saddam Hussein met with Mohammed Atta personally, or that, if he did, we would have proof of it or, that if we had proof of it, the first person to hear about it would be an Italian reporter for a business daily." I will be shocked if this is not precisely the case.
If the Atta-Saddam meeting were true, the story would not be first told to an Italian business daily. And it would not be Richard Perle doing the telling.
This is either a.) an accidental misreporting of Perle's remarks, as you suggest or b.) an intentional misreporting, so as to damage the credibility of whatever evidence the administration may subsequently produce on an al-Qaeda-Iraq tie.
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posted on
09/08/2002 1:51:35 PM PDT
by
okie01
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