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
He also refused to use ground troops because he new he could not take casualties and keep his base satisfied. Yes, technically, he went to war but far from all out war.
I get really tired of the "Bush lied!" crapola the left continues to spew, and the White House could shut these little pukes up if they had an ounce of communications skills. I've seen folks here on FR do a better job defending Bush's policies on the war on terror and the relationship btw the WOT and Iraq than I've seen the White House do.
Dittos. It's tedious defending an Adminisration that fails to defend itself.
Stephen Hayes did a credible job showing the links between Saddam's regime and terrorism, especially al Qaeda, yet the MSM's response to his book was the sound of crickets. And the left is allowed to continue to lie that "there was no connection between Saddam and terrorism." I'm surprised that no enterprising journalist has written a book on Saddam's WMD program. I started putting together a summary of the articles I've collected over the past 3 years on Saddam's WMDs, and frankly, the information is compelling. Well, if I can put together a good case for the fact that Saddam was up to his goofy hat in WMDs, why can't the Administration? I don't get it.
BTW, I'm a Broken-Glass Republican as well, and despite my frustrations with Geo. W. Bush's White House on some issues, I'd work to elect him a third time if it were possible.
BTTT
Bush better get off his butt and go after the Clintons for the sake of his party.
They already are a "War Party". They wage intellectual, economic, philosophical war on pro-truth, pro-freedom, pro-life individuals every day.
Added to my list; thanks for the ping or I'd have missed this for sure.
Able Danger may just unmask everything we've been waiting for.
Any clue as to why Specter...is wanting to hold a hearing?
There may be a thread where it is discussed, I just haven't come across it as of yet.
Spectre shouldn't be the one in charge of hearings. It should be the Intelligence Committee, imo.
What a great graphic!
But we must still try - the young media is new but powerful. Don't forget the Dan Rather story on Bush's National Guard service. I watched how the new media unraveled that story in a matter of hours.
Amen to that!
Who will be the leaders conducting these hearings?
Who will be the leaders conducting these hearings?
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The truth will out.
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