Without hyperbole or facetiousness, I express my desire that those staffers who are working with Rep. Weldon be placed under protective custody. I'm gravely serious.
Weldon has too much light on him, so he's fairly safe for now.
Posted on 08/27/2005 2:52:10 PM PDT by wagglebee
Congressional hearings coming this fall into revelations by the military intelligence group Able Danger could spotlight other evidence overlooked by the 9/11 Commission: including a March 2001 report suggesting that Osama bin Laden was working with Iraqi intelligence operatives in Germany at a time when Mohamed Atta and two other 9/11 hijack team leaders were living in Hamburg.
On March 16, 2001, the Paris-based newspaper Al Watan al Arabi reported: "Two Iraqis were arrested in Germany, charged with spying for Baghdad. The arrests came in the wake of reports that Iraq was reorganizing the external branches of its intelligence service and that it had drawn up a plan to strike at US interests around the world through a network of alliances with extremist fundamentalist parties."
Al Watan said that German intelligence was investigating "serious indications of cooperation between Iraq and bin Ladin.* The matter was considered so important that a special team of CIA and FBI agents was sent to Germany to interrogate the two Iraqi spies."
The pre-9/11 Al Watan report continued:
"German authorities were surprised by the arrest of the two Iraqi agents and the discovery of Iraqi intelligence activities in several German cities. German authorities, acting on CIA recommendations, had been focused on monitoring the activities of Islamic groups linked to bin Ladin."
The Weekly Standard, which covered the quotes this week based on a report by Captain's Quarter's blogger Ed Morrissey," noted:
"Despite this contemporaneous report about the nature of the German arrests and the involvement of American counterintelligence officials in the investigation, not a word of the affair appears in the 9/11 Commission's final report."
This fall's hearings will undoubtedly begin with questions about why both the 9/11 Commission and the Clinton administration dismissed Able Danger's stunning identification of Mohamed Atta inside the U.S.
But any congressional investigation that doesn't explore other possible bombshells that were overlooked - including indications of possible Iraqi involvement in the 9/11 attacks - will leave even more important questions unanswered.
* Al Watan spelling
Witness them. They devalue life through their words and deeds.
The Able Danger story has intrigued me greatly. I've rearranged my blog and devoted a blogroll for linking Able Danger blog posts/news stories. The blog is at: http://www.qtmonster.com
And I'm very surprised and delighted today to find that The American Thinker blog has linked to my site:
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=2951
Wow.
Thanks for the link(s). Good blog!
Hell, hear Clinton himself admit it!
http://www.newsmax.com/clinton2.mp3
A D? Isn't that a bit high?
I can only hope their lack of communication is related to a desire to protect classified information or sources.
How hard is it to give a point-by-point synopsis on the Iraq/terror links (Salman Pak, anyone?) and the banned chemicals that have been found? The Bush administration is inept at dealing with the media. That is harsh, but that is how I feel.
Thanks for the ping.
The left has their lie and they will do whatever is necessary to protect it.
That sums it up right there!
Tell Conyers it's a republican scandal, he dumb enough to hold 'hearings.'
CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST!
They tried to whitewash it, they tried to cover a lot of things up or just bury them, they've now attempted to CYA, but I have a feeling that the roof is about to be blown off.
(( ping ))
We at Free Republic can take care the the SCHADENFREUDE FEST!
Yeah, but I'm a broken-glass Republican.
How hard is it to give a point-by-point synopsis on the Iraq/terror links ... and the banned chemicals that have been found?
A communications expert I'm not, but I agree that it shouldn't be hard. The deal is, not only has the Administration not done it, neither has anyone else done it in a way that would earn an A in a communications class--i.e., clear, concise, and dumbed down to a 6th grade level on the order of THE DOG IS BROWN.
Thanks Southack. Good post.
Without hyperbole or facetiousness, I express my desire that those staffers who are working with Rep. Weldon be placed under protective custody. I'm gravely serious.
Weldon has too much light on him, so he's fairly safe for now.
"Able Danger"... Sounds like a keyword... Similar to "Deep Throat"...
I don't think I agree. The democrats are not trusted with national security and that comes from decades of being anti-military, anti-weapon production and spending, anti-nuke, anti-anything related to military. They fought Ronald Reagan at every turn and they have earned that reputation. They simply do not have the credibility in national security issues to march to a press conference and change national politics 'in a heartbeat'. The public would be skeptical to say the least. A tiger will always be a tiger, or in this case a dove will always be a dove. Even if the public would be willing to listen, a big if, the democrats are too far under the sheets in bed with the far left to be able to make such a sharp turn to the right.
How quickly you've forgotten the Clinton Administration going to war in Kosovo in 1999.
Democrats are a heartbeat away from becoming a War Party. It's in the blood of Leftists.
Black Panthers. Weather Underground. Animal Liberation Front. Black Bloc. Anarchists. Earth First! Castro. Che Gueverra. Lenin. Stalin. Pol Pot. Hugo Chavez...
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