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RogerRabbit
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 Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:04 am Post subject: Saddam, bin Laden link found: Canadian reporter |
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Listen to Audio on the link http://www.cbc.ca/clips/ram-audio/glasse_tw030427.ram
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/04/26/saddam_osama030426
| Quote: | Saddam, bin Laden link found: Canadian reporter
Last Updated Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:28:50
BAGHDAD - Secret documents uncovered in the bombed headquarters of Iraq's former spy agency show the first clear link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, according to a Canadian journalist.
* INDEPTH: Iraq: Issues and Analysis
Mitch Potter, a foreign correspondent with the Toronto Star, says he discovered the file while digging through what's left of the Mukhabarat intelligence office. The CIA had already looked over the rubble and left.
'It was marked top secret, and of course they went to great lengths to try to mask the contents' – Mitch Potter
The document, which refers to an al-Qaeda envoy's visit to Iraq in 1998, had bin Laden's name amateurishly covered with liquid whiteout, Potter told CBC Newsworld Saturday night.
"Very gingerly we lifted up all the liquid paper and revealed three times bin Laden's name," he said in a telephone interview from Baghdad.
"It's a top secret file, it was marked top secret, and of course they went to great lengths to try to mask the contents of it.
"We just happened to have a very, very diligent interpreter with us today who went that extra mile and found something that was not meant for our eyes."
Several other Arabic translators have since been shown the document and confirmed that bin Laden's name is on it, according to the newspaper.
The Star published Potter's full account of the discovery on Sunday. Another journalist, Inigo Gilmore of London's Sunday Telegraph, was present when the file was found.
The handwritten document describes the al-Qaeda operative's visit to Iraq, according to Potter. It says the purpose was "to gain the knowledge of the message from bin Laden, and to convey to his envoy an oral message from us to bin Laden."
The United States has long alleged a connection between Iraq's former leader and terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. Washington said one of its reasons for using military force to topple Saddam's regime was because he had weapons of mass destruction that could end up in the hands of people like bin Laden. Saddam denied possessing any such weapons, or of having ties with al-Qaeda's Sept. 11 attacks against the U.S. |
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Son of a VET
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:16 am Post subject: |
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 Super find! Lets get the emails to the msm going.
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Anker-Klanker
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:20 am Post subject: |
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I take it that these are different documents than those being discussed in connection with the CNS find. If so, this would be a real double whammy!
WOW! |
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Son of a VET
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:22 am Post subject: |
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It is october after all. 
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Son of a VET
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:46 am Post subject: |
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Calling all bloggers, run with it!
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Anker-Klanker
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:52 am Post subject: |
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OOPS!!! I just noticed the date on that release. What happened, if this is so old?
This may end up being a false alarm. |
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Rdtf
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Anker-Klanker wrote: | OOPS!!! I just noticed the date on that release. What happened, if this is so old?
This may end up being a false alarm. |
not a false alarm, just more neglect from the MSM that doesn't want the public to know. I think Bush and his team should have been doing a better job of making sure the public knows. Frustrating, to say the least. |
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Ed McDowell
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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| ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and all the rest of the commies will never let this story see the light of day. It is wishful thinking that anything against Kerry will ever be reported by the network news. |
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oasis
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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Hello,
The networks have the public eating out of there hands.
Like herding sheep so to speak.
I have found many news stories that the media kept from the public concerning connections between Osama and Saddam.
Like AL-Qaeda training camps in Iraq with mock Commercial air lines and French and Germans teachers.
And this story that was squashed..
| Quote: | | Baghdad, Iraq, Jul. 21 (UPI) -- Iraqi security reportedly discovered three missiles carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday |
The description the Iraqi security reported was to good for them to have made it up I believe they were told to shut up.
The media then back tracked and said it was not true.
It is hard to move stuff like this to Syria without being detected.
That is why they left it in the concrete trench.
Official denies nuclear arms found in Iraq
I'll bet Kerry has people in Iraq who are covering up finds like this and squelching anything that goes to press.
Big money in the wrong hands can and will supercede our national security.
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mjanay
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think its Kerry thats covering this up.
A) It may not be true
B) If it is, the military wouldn't just let it out that they found Nukes without finding info saying that there were no others. Could you imagine the panic that would ensue if they released the fact that 3 were found out of who knows how many.
The ISG report is due tomorrow.
Its a perfect October Suprise... Kerry has been screaming that Bush lied and there are no WMD and no ties to Bin Laden and blah blah blah.
What are they going to do when the admin releases proof of ties and WMD.
Bush is letting them dig their own hole deeper. I don't believe its coincidence that docs are surfacing and re-surfacing now. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| What is the ISG report? |
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mjanay
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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Iraqi Survey Group
The real WMD hunters. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Son of a VET wrote: | | It is october after all. |
SURPRISE  |
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oasis
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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Hello,
Put this in your pipe and smoke it
Chinese sold Iraq dual-use chemical
Makes for good automobile petro. You think?
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The ISG report is due tomorrow.
It's a perfect October Surprise..
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