High Qaeda Aide Retracted Claim of Link With Iraq

NY Times ^ | July 31, 2004 | DOUGLAS JEHL

[USNBandit]

"A senior leader of Al Qaeda who was captured in Pakistan several months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was the main source for intelligence, since discredited, that Iraq had provided training in chemical and biological weapons to members of the organization, according to American intelligence officials."

Richard Clarke was captured in Pakistan? I suspected the Al Queda link, but I thought he was in a U.S. not so asleeper cell.

[Coop]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[nuffsenuff]

The Reinvention Convention isn't over I guess.

That doesn't change the fact that Al-Zarqawi, Abu Nidal, and Abu Abbas all lived in Baghdad for years.

[woofie]

It is obvious that when Al Qaeda terroists agree with the New York Times they are telling the truth when they disagree they are lying.

[goodnesswins]

"...American officials say his now-recanted claims raise new questions about the value of the information obtained from such detainees."

No kidding.....either way, the Administration is WRONG and Bush lied.....doesn't matter to the LIBS.

[ambrose]

I question the timing of this story.

[Brilliant]

Yeah? So what if he recanted? He let it slip before he had a chance to talk to the NYT lawyers.

[Coop]

LOL! Good one.

This opinion piece, err, article is written as if that was the ONLY source of information showing ties. Geez, if it weren't for the crossword puzzle, would they even sell any papers anymore?

[doug from upland]

It doesn't matter. Resolution 1441 was clear. A mass murderer will someday hang. That is good for the world.

[ambrose]

NY Times: Home of Jayson Blair.

[Future Useless Eater]

New York Times...

garbage out... garbage out.

[okie01]

Just who are these "intelligence officials", I wonder.

And why are they talking so freely to the New York Times about "highly classified" reports from the CIA? And "still-secret parts" of the Senate Intelligence Committee report?

Would these "intelligence officials" be the same as those who have shared "secrets" with the likes of the Times, Post and Newsday in the past? Would they happen to be associates of Mr. Ambassador and Ms. Secret Agent?

I smell rodents (and that would be with an apostrophe and a capital R).

[beebuster2000]

wrong again. read what the 9/11 has to say in the report

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1182042/posts

[VOA]

High Qaeda Aide Retracted Claim of Link With Iraq

"What did John promise him (from Terezzaaah's Billion Dollars) to retract.
And when did he promise it?"

[George W. Bush]

Oh, okay. So now the Iraq war was a big ol' mistake and Tenet and the CIA were deceived by the wily Libi? And Bush/NSC/Powell are all off the hook, having been the victim of this lone prisoner/informant?

If that's true, maybe we should have just bombed an aspirin factory like usual and called it a day.

[AaronInCarolina]

Classic example of a straw-man argument. They mis-characterize what Bush said, then come up with evidence refuting what the mis-characterization said. Bush never made a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq a major rationalization for war. There were enough terrorist groups operating out of Iraq with having to rely on an Iraq-Al Qaeda link. But the libs constantly lie and say that Bush did try to make the link and that he has been disproven. Honest people don't use those gimmicks.

[Tribune7]

High Qaeda Aide Retracted Claim of Link With Iraq

Golly. When did the NYT report the claim that had to be retracted? There are multiple sources, btw, of a link betwee AQ & Iraq.

[AaronInCarolina]

In the prelude to the American invasion in March 2003, those claims were echoed often by Mr. Bush and his top advisers, but they have not repeated that allegation for at least six months.

This is disgusting journalism. This just simply is not true. An honest journalist would give actual quotes of when he supposedly made these claims, and where. I doubt if this bozo could produce one example of a quote to back up his claim of Bush using Al Qaeda ties as a rationalization for war.

[FreeReign]

NY Times -- unnamed sources -- trash.