Posted on 09/14/2006 10:25:44 AM PDT by april15Bendovr
Iraqi Official Testifies to Links Between Saddam and Al Qaeda
BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun September 14, 2006
WASHINGTON — A deputy prime minister of Iraq yesterday offered a sharp contradiction of the conventional wisdom here that Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Al Qaeda had no connection before the 2003 war, flatly contradicting a recent report from the Senate's intelligence committee.
In a speech in which he challenged the belief of war critics that Iraqis' lives are now worse than under Saddam Hussein, Barham Salih said, "The alliance between the Baathists and jihadists which sustains Al Qaeda in Iraq is not new, contrary to what you may have been told." He went on to say, "I know this at first hand. Some of my friends were murdered by jihadists, by Al Qaeda-affiliated operatives who had been sheltered and assisted by Saddam's regime."
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
PING 0 RAMA
I wonder if the wire services will be publishing the testimony of this particular official?
Move on nothing here to see'''''
I remember a few weeks back a CNN pretty-boy was interviewing I think the deputy prime minister of Iraq. This Iraqi said before the war we had al-Qaeda and now after the war we are hunting them down. The CNN guy interupted him and said something to the effect of "in all honesty I feel I must say that al-Qaeda being in Iraq before the war is still a matter of dispute". The Iraqi ignore him and kept talking. I was laughing too hard to hear the rest.
Yep. Another democratic/Michael Savage Canard down the drain...
I'm sure the perky one will make this the centerpiece of her nightly news show.... (BWAAAHAAAHAAAA, sniff!)
'splain the Savage remark. I quit listening to him several years ago.
I tuned in a couple of weeks ago only to hear him extolling the virtues of Saddam and how we should have left him in power. that he knew how to keep the terrorists and shias at bay, buying into the Cindy Sheehan/Scott Ritter theory that he did not support al-qaeda hook line and sinker.
It has only been about three months since we dropped two 500-pound guided bombs on the hide-out of Zarqawi, killing him and uncovering what American military investigators called a "treasure trove" of documents, computer hard drives and other intelligence.
My guess is Democrats are very afraid of the information found at that hide-out considering their prior rhetoric.
The Democrats and liberals could take the time to read any translated documents found but they wont. It might actually put them on the same side as America.
The dems will probably say that this Iraq official was put up to this by Karl Rove...
Ping.
They have not wanted to be on America's side since a traitorous puke named John Kerry testified that we were like jenjis khan.
I have to agree. Too bad we can't get the hard drive and it's information to our own jveritas. He'd have it all translated by now......
I am amazed how narrow the thinking of the Democrats is on this issue (if they really believe their rhetoric). Just in Afghanistan, huh? No were else on the planet?? Even after 5 years time? We should just fight in Afghanistan?? This is so silly that I must conclude they are a very obtuse and quite stupid lot.
Amazing how the people that were against the invasion of Iraq and were safe in our own country can determine there was no connection of Sadaam and Al Qaeda while Iraqi's that were there say there was.
AP Responds to Captured Iraqi Intelligence Document (AP employee spied for Saddam)
americanthinker.com http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5845 ^ | September 12 2006 | The American Thinker
Posted on 09/12/2006 10:01:26 AM PDT by jveritas
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