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shawa
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 Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:26 am Post subject: The Mother of All Connections |
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A very long, but VERY IMPORTANT documentation of Saddam/Al Qaida connectons that the Liberal media won't report.
Even though the AP requested this 'Summary of Evidence' using the FOIA, they quickly downplayed it!
The 911 Commission was set up to discredit Bush, and the Media refuses to report on anything that proves Bush was right. I am keeping a copy of this accounting as a reference when some uninformed pinhead argues with me that Iraq was no threat to the U.S.
| Quote: | The Mother of All Connections
From the July 18, 2005 issue: A special report on the new evidence of collaboration between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda.
by Stephen F. Hayes & Thomas Joscelyn
07/18/2005, Volume 010, Issue 41
"In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of blowing up the Pakistan, United States and British embassies with chemical mortars."
U.S. government "Summary of Evidence" for an Iraqi member of al Qaeda detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
FOR MANY, the debate over the former Iraqi regime's ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network ended a year ago with the release of the 9/11 Commission report. Media outlets seized on a carefully worded summary that the commission had found no evidence "indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or carrying out any attacks against the United States" and ran blaring headlines like the one on the June 17, 2004, front page of the New York Times: "Panel Finds No Qaeda-Iraq Tie."
But this was woefully imprecise. It assumed, not unreasonably, that the 9/11 Commission's conclusion was based on a firm foundation of intelligence reporting, that the intelligence community had the type of human intelligence and other reporting that would allow senior-level analysts to draw reasonable conclusions. We know now that was not the case.
John Lehman, a 9/11 commissioner, spoke to The Weekly Standard at the time the report was released. "There may well be--and probably will be--additional intelligence coming in from interrogations and from analysis of captured records and so forth which will fill out the intelligence picture. This is not phrased as--nor meant to be--the definitive word on Iraqi Intelligence activities."
Lehman's caution was prescient. A year later, we still cannot begin
to offer a "definitive" picture of the relationships entered into by Saddam Hussein's operatives, but much more has already been learned from documents uncovered after the Iraq war. The evidence we present below, compiled from revelations in recent months, suggests an acute case of denial on the part of those who dismiss the Iraq-al Qaeda relationship.
There could hardly be a clearer case--of the ongoing revelations and the ongoing denial--than in the 13 points below, reproduced verbatim from a "Summary of Evidence" prepared by the U.S. government in November 2004. This unclassified document was released by the Pentagon in late March 2005. It details the case for designating an Iraqi member of al Qaeda, currently detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an "enemy combatant."
1. From 1987 to 1989, the detainee served as an infantryman in the Iraqi Army and received training on the mortar and rocket propelled grenades.
2. A Taliban recruiter in Baghdad convinced the detainee to travel to Afghanistan to join the Taliban in 1994.
3. The detainee admitted he was a member of the Taliban.
4. The detainee pledged allegiance to the supreme leader of the Taliban to help them take over all of Afghanistan.
5. The Taliban issued the detainee a Kalishnikov rifle in November 2000.
6. The detainee worked in a Taliban ammo and arms storage arsenal in Mazar-Es-Sharif organizing weapons and ammunition.
7. The detainee willingly associated with al Qaida members.
8. The detainee was a member of al Qaida.
9. An assistant to Usama Bin Ladin paid the detainee on three separate occasions between 1995 and 1997.
10. The detainee stayed at the al Farouq camp in Darwanta, Afghanistan, where he received 1,000 Rupees to continue his travels.
11. From 1997 to 1998, the detainee acted as a trusted agent for Usama Bin Ladin, executing three separate reconnaissance missions for the al Qaeda leader in Oman, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
12. In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of blowing up the Pakistan, United States and British embassies with chemical mortars.
13. Detainee was arrested by Pakistani authorities in Khudzar, Pakistan, in July 2002.
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Interesting. What's more interesting: The alleged plot was to have taken place in August 1998, the same month that al Qaeda attacked two U.S. embassies in East Africa. And more interesting still: It was to have taken place in the same month that the Clinton administration publicly accused Iraq of supplying al Qaeda with chemical weapons expertise and material.
But none of this was interesting enough for any of the major television networks to cover it. Nor was it deemed sufficiently newsworthy to merit a mention in either the Washington Post or the New York Times.
The Associated Press, on the other hand, probably felt obliged to run a story, since the "Summary of Evidence" was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the AP itself. But after briefly describing the documents, the AP article downplayed its own scoop with a sentence almost as amusing as it is inane: "There is no indication the Iraqi's alleged terror-related activities were on behalf of Saddam Hussein's government, other than the brief mention of him traveling to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi intelligence." That sentence minimizing the importance of the findings was enough, apparently, to convince most newspaper editors around the country not to run the AP story...... |
MUCH MORE-CONTINUED The Weekly Standard
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kate
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I read that earlier, very long, but good read
and watch the MSM carefully for wall-to-wall coverage
geesh the AP felt they had to report it, but then summarily dismissed it
| Quote: | | John Lehman, a 9/11 commissioner, spoke to The Weekly Standard at the time the report was released. "There may well be--and probably will be--additional intelligence coming in from interrogations and from analysis of captured records and so forth which will fill out the intelligence picture. |
MSN interprets the 911 Commisison report with their own slant.
Commision never said said there was no connection, only that they didnt find one. That Ron Reagan /Hitchins interview is a perfect example of this closed-mindedness. Just because you don't see something, doesn't mean it isn't there...
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FreeFall
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This is very important info. Another thing overlooked in the MSM is that Iraqi personel met and escorted to a meeing two 9/11 hijackers in Kuala Lampour (this same man had links to Operation Bojinka) and then there is the Czech intelligence insistence that Mohammed Atta met with an Iraqi diplomat in Prague. All this is at www.husseinandterror.com, from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
I think as more documents are translated, we will find Iraq somehow linked to a lot more past terror attacks against the USA. Some of which is already obvious, like Abu Abbas, who masterminded the Achille Lauro hijacking, had an Iraqi diplomatic passport even though he was a Palestian terrorist leader which enabled him to get away AND he was living found in Iraq by coalition forces in 2003. Yassin, a WTC bomber was also found living in Iraq, getting subsidized housing and a goverment salary. No MSM outlet wants to examine this stuff though. |
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Rdtf
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I always wonder, how do liberals explain away the existence of the training facility at Salman Pak? Complete with an airplane utilized to instruct terrorists how to do what they did on 9/11? This is no secret, there are pictures and intel to prove this. |
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Nutso
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| You need to kepp one thing in perspective. The liberals and their puppet media has no interest in facts, the truth or realism. They just want power and to take over the country. I cringe everytime I hear the expression from one of them 'The majority of americans..." Hey, if the majority of Americans want all these liberal driven ideas then how come they keep losing the elections?? We all know where the majority of Americans stand and it is growing. |
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