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Another Iraq-Al Qaeda Connection
The Washington Times ^ | March 19, 2004 | Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 03/21/2004 12:01:41 PM PST by Dilbert56

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:41:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

We have obtained a document discovered in Iraq from the files of the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS). The report provides new evidence of links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

The 1993 document, in Arabic, bears the logo of the Iraqi intelligence agency and is labeled "top secret" on each of its 20 pages.


(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaedaandiraq; billgertz; iraq; iraqalqaeda; rowanscarborough; waronterror
(Sorry if this is a repost - did a search.) Isn't this special?
1 posted on 03/21/2004 12:01:42 PM PST by Dilbert56
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To: Dilbert56
And, of course, the first World Trade Center attack was a joint operation involving Iraqi intel and Osama's wannabes. That is pretty much the pattern, as far as I can tell. Osama provides the cannon fodder, Iraq provides the technical know-how.
2 posted on 03/21/2004 12:05:49 PM PST by marron
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To: Dilbert56
=========== Documents linking Atta, Saddam, Nidal, bin Ladin ===========

Handwritten letter dated Feb. 19, 1998 linking bin Laden and Saddam Hussein
discussing arrival of a secret envoy sent by bin Laden to Iraq.
The signature beneath the letter is a codename, "MDA" - the Mukhabarat.


========= Chemical Warhead found in Kirkuk =============

Chemical warhead found at an Iraqi air base, marked with a green band,
the symbol for chemical weaponry
. Trace amounts of a nerve agent were found
at two spots along the ~meter-long warhead. These amounts are consistent with
leakage from the chemically armed weapon. A 13-foot missile was found next to it.


========= Halabja =========

Dead children, previously playing in Halabja
Victims of Saddams' WMD in March 1988.


=========== French missiles FIRST given to Iraq to be USED Against US and Coalition Heroes =========

French missiles found by the Poles, and to protect France, blown up.

Froggies said they did not say "2003". LOL. Decide for yourself.


Iraqi missiles given to, and now located in, Syria:


========= RUSSIAN MISSILES AND DIRTY BOMBS FOUND IN IRAQ =========

Russian-made R-60, NATO AA-8 Aphid, air-to-air missiles were found..
The Russian-made missiles are >6 feet long. Each carries 3.5 pounds of uranium.
wrapped around a high explosive warhead (13.2-pound) making a "dirty bomb".


Also found in Iraq:

* A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service
that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.

* A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials
working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.

* Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home,
one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.

* New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF),
and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.

* Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in
resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).

* A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission
that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit.

* Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles,
a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists
have said they were told to conceal from the UN.

* Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1000 km -
well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed
Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.

* Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology
related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles --probably the No Dong -- 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles,
and other prohibited military equipment.


Still missing based on the UNSCOM report to the UN Security Council in January 1999,
when the UN inspectors left Iraq in 1998, they had been unable to account for:

• up to 360 tons of bulk chemical warfare agents, including 1.5 tons of VX nerve agent;

• up to 3,000 tons of precursor chemicals, including approximately 300 tons which,
in the Iraqi chemical warfare program, were unique to the production of VX;

• growth media procured for biological agent production (enough to produce
over three times the 8,500 litres of anthrax spores Iraq admitted to UN inspectors to having manufactured);

• over 30,000 special munitions for delivery of chemical and biological agents;

• 20 al-Hussein missles with a range of 650 km, in violation
of UN Security Council Resolution 687 (Iraq had told UNSCOM that it filled these warheads with anthrax and botulinum);

• 2,850 tons of mustard gas, 210 tons of tabun, and 795 tons of sarin and cyclosarin;

• development of the Al-Samoud short-range missle (which had the capability to fly beyond the 150 km allowed by UN resolutions)

3 posted on 03/21/2004 12:07:33 PM PST by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
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To: Diogenesis
The naysayers haven't shown up here yet (thankfully).

You've always done a good job of never letting us forget, diogenesis. Thank you!
4 posted on 03/21/2004 12:16:41 PM PST by Peach
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To: Diogenesis
great report. it sickens me what is happening all over the news today. not only are the clintonistas out to smear bush as having had it in for saddam rather than osama, they are desperately trying to preempt public opinion to establish the bush administration, after 8 months, as being MORE responsible for 9/11 than the clinton administration!

this is breathtaking and i sure hope the bush team gets out there fast, because they should have known this was coming, particularly with that idiot berger running all over claiming he warned em, he warned em!

5 posted on 03/21/2004 12:22:52 PM PST by wildwood
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To: Dilbert56
Great I was looking for this to be posted.

Saw Gertz on Foxnews where he talked about the finding of this document.
6 posted on 03/21/2004 12:57:32 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: wildwood
The only reason to watch non-local news programs is to see what the internationalists and home grown socialists are up to, IMHO.

7 posted on 03/21/2004 12:59:05 PM PST by sarasmom ("I'm a redneck and Charles Bronson was a sissy".(Permission to use as tag granted by The Toll)
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To: nutmeg
bttt
8 posted on 03/21/2004 1:00:01 PM PST by nutmeg (Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F’in al-Qerry)
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To: Dilbert56
bump
9 posted on 03/21/2004 1:03:13 PM PST by I'm ALL Right! (MY candidate knows what he believes in.)
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To: Diogenesis; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER; Ragtime Cowgirl; Dog; Cap Huff; Coop; swarthyguy; Gritty; ...
Excellent.

10 posted on 03/21/2004 1:07:10 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks for the ping!
11 posted on 03/21/2004 1:15:43 PM PST by Cap Huff
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To: Dilbert56
There's no connection.

All the Democrats and the major snooze-media say so.

Bush lied.

Case closed.

(You read it here. You won't read it anywhere else.)

12 posted on 03/21/2004 1:50:29 PM PST by Gritty ("This is beyond appeasement. This is decadence: Terror rages and we tend our garden"-C Krauthammer)
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To: MEG33
bttt
13 posted on 03/21/2004 2:01:40 PM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: Diogenesis
Why didn't David Kay and his hundreds of investigators find this?

(Don't read hostility into my question; I am curious to know your thinking on this.)
14 posted on 03/21/2004 2:08:00 PM PST by lancer
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To: Dilbert56
for later
15 posted on 03/21/2004 2:15:12 PM PST by satchmodog9 (it's coming and if you don't get off the tracks it will run you down)
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