[cgk]

BTTT!

[johnny7]

I'll email them to GORElick and Ben-Veniste...

[piasa]

Regarding the Stephen Hayes article in the Weekly Standard that mentioned the Sudanese thug Hassan al Turabi as an intermediary between Iraq and al Qaeda :

Who is Saddam Hussein's buddy Turabi? Well, as it turns out, Turabi has connections here in the USA, too :

* Hassan Turabi : [Sami] Al-Arian's close ties to both PIJ and Hamas go back to at least 1995. Al-Arian used a group he founded, the Islamic Committee for Palestine, to plead for funds for PIJ and Hamas.
Conferences organized by ICP featured Islamic Jihad founder Abdel Aziz-Odeh, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (spiritual leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers), leading Hamas official Mohammed Sakr and high-ranking Sudanese terrorist Hassan Turabi, a close ally of Osama bin Laden. --------- Democrats' imam was character witness to terror supporter , WorldNetDaily.com, Thursday, July 29, 2004

[piasa]

1992 - 1995 : (SUDAN : SERIES OF MEETINGS BETWEEN THE IRAQI INTELLIGENCE SERVICE AND AL QAEDA; OTHER MEETINGS WERE IN PAKISTAN AND IRAQ; IN IRAQ MEMBERS OF AL QAEDA WOULD SOMETIMES MEET IRAQI INTELLIGENCE CHIEF MANI ABD AL RASHID AL TIKRITI IN A SAFE HOUSE ---See IRAQ AL QAEDA/AL QAEDA IRAQ) 4. According to a May 2003 debriefing of a senior Iraqi intelligence officer, Iraqi intelligence established a highly secretive relationship with Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and later with al Qaeda. The first meeting in 1992 between the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) and al Qaeda was brokered by al-Turabi.
[* leader of Sudan's al Qaeda affiliated National Islamic Front, Hassan al-Turabi ]
Former IIS deputy director Faruq Hijazi and senior al Qaeda leader [Ayman al] Zawahiri were at the meeting--the first of several between 1992 and 1995 in Sudan. Additional meetings between Iraqi intelligence and al Qaeda were held in Pakistan. Members of al Qaeda would sometimes visit Baghdad where they would meet the Iraqi intelligence chief [Mani abd-al-Rashid al-Tikriti] in a safe house. The report claimed that [Iraqi leader] Saddam [Hussein] insisted the relationship with al Qaeda be kept secret. After 9-11 [2001], the source said Saddam made a personnel change in the IIS for fear the relationship would come under scrutiny from foreign probes.
------- "The U.S. government's secret memo detailing cooperation between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. ," by Stephen F. Hayes, 11/24/2003, the Weekly Standard, Volume 009, Issue 11

[EdReform]

Ping

[S.S. Monkeyface]

Here is a long list of sites that discuss this, including the ones cited in the post that originated this thread:

http://www.blackvault.com/documents/capturediraq/ISGZ-2004-019920.pdf#search='ISGZ2004019920'
http://www.blackvault.com/documents/capturediraq/ISGZ-2004-019920.pdf#search='ISGZ2004019920'
http://www.lauramansfield.com/j/default.asp
http://blogs.pajamasmedia.com/iraq_files/2006/03/document_isgz2004009247.php
http://rayrobison.typepad.com/ray_robison/2006/03/iraq_intelligen.html
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents-docex/Iraq/Released-20060314/CMPC-2003-001488.pdf#search='CMPC2003001488'
http://blogs.pajamasmedia.com/iraq_files/2006/03/document_cmpc2003001488.php
http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/2006/03/saddam-era-documents.html
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.asp?ZoomFont=YES
http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/06/army-of-translaters-saddam-dossier.html
http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/03/army-of-translators-powerline-forward.html
http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/03/army-of-translators-broad-advances.html
http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/03/army-of-translators-joint-forces.html
http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/03/army-of-translators-vanguard-moves.html
http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/03/army-of-translators-rolling-out.html
http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/03/army-of-translators-gathering.html
http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/03/calling-all-translators.html
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51952
http://www.blogger.com/profile/16710945
http://curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com/2006/09/saddams-ties-to-al-qaeda.html
http://stopliberalmedia.blogspot.com/2006/09/trail-of-terror-evidence.html
http://ussneverdock.blogspot.com/2006/09/iraq-saddams-connections-to-bin-laden.html
http://back-spin.blogspot.com/2006/09/when-is-document-link.html
http://environmentalrepublican.blogspot.com/2006/09/baathist-iraq-and-al-qaeda.html
http://freethoughts.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/142/
http://www.squiggler.com/2006/09/saddamal_qaeda_.html
http://aredphishhead.blogspot.com/2006/09/more-saddamal-qaeda-links-with.html
http://1fp.us/2006/09/12/blogrolls-best-91206/
http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/2006/09/documents-not-addressed-by-senate.html
http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed042606a.cfm
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013511.php
http://www.travelbrochuregraphics.com/extra/saddams_al_qaeda_connection.htm
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200410/SPE20041004a.html
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22055
fmso.leavenworth.army.mil...-docex.htm
www.un.org/Depts/unscom/sres95-864.htm
63.247.134.60/%7Epobbs/ar...syria.html
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060...s_iraq_war
www.tau.ac.il/jcss/bullet...n25-26.pdf
http://webnewsroom.blogspot.com/2006/06/new-documents-american-troops-found.html
http://webnewsroom.blogspot.com/2006/05/iraqi-documents-prove-wmd-terrorist.html
http://dreadpundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/familiar-face.html

Don't let anyone tell you that he didn't vhe WMDs or connections to Al Qaeda. They know better.

This is the Iraqi Venona.