Posted on 12/04/2004 12:02:04 PM PST by kattracks
In what may be the most shocking news to emerge from the already stunning Oil for Food scandal, investigators say that Saddam Hussein bankrolled key al Qaida players in the late 1990s - a period of time when the terror group was planning the 9/11 attacks and the Iraqi dictator was ripping off billions from the U.N. program.
"Saddam had given $300,000 in cash to Ayman Al Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's number two man, in the spring of 1998," the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley."It's likely that Saddam was giving some of his [Oil for Food] money to al Qaida."
In an eerie coincidence, an October 2001 estimate by the Justice Department put the entire cost of the 9/11 operation at $300,000.
While the inception of Iraq's financial relationship with al Qaida pre-dated the 1996 Oil for Food program, the U.N. jackpot enabled Saddam to become much more generous towards his terrorist allies in the years before 9/11.
Hayes said the total amount of Iraqi cash funneled into al Qaida reached into the "millions."
"Saddam had pretty strong ties to bin Laden when bin Laden was in Sudan," he said, based on what a former CIA counterrorism official had told him.
"He talked about this system of Saddam funneling money, usually cash payments, to a variety of al Qaida-linked Islamic terrorist groups," the Standard reporter said.
Freelance reporter Claudia Rosett, who singlehandedly broke the Oil for Food story last year, first broached the possibility of a U.N. connection to the 9/11 attacks in the Weekly Standard last August:
"By 1996, remember, bin Laden had been run out of Sudan, and seems to have been out of money. He needed a fresh bundle to rent Afghanistan from the Taliban, train recruits, expand al Qaida's global network, and launch what eventually became the 9/11 attacks.
"Meanwhile," Rosett continued, "over in Iraq about that same time, Saddam Hussein, after a lean stretch under United Nations sanctions, had just cut his Oil-for-Food deal with the U.N., and soon began exploiting that program to embezzle billions meant for relief."
Rosett noted that just prior to Saddam's $300,000 payment to Al Zawahiri in 1998, bin Laden issued a fatwa against the U.S. that included references to "the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people" as well as "the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance."
Do the Rats need more evidence to show why we went to Iraq?
Eerie....to say the least.....
If this is true, will the Congress FINALLY revoke the UN charter?
This is beyond maddening. I sincerely hope there is evidence to back this up.
Why isn't this information being broadcast on the major news networks? Oh yeah, now I remember....
IF this pans out, it seems to me that the U.N. warrants the same treatment as the Taliban.
Very little surprises me anymore, but my jaw dropped to the floor when I read the title to this thread.
I pray that this doesn't blow over. The ramifications are too vast.
The tentacles of Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Islamofascism, and the U.N. entwine and slither in places even the most ardent conspiracy theorists could never envision.
Mind-boggling.
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 by David HorowitzHardcover - (September 2004) - $27.95 In this tour de force on the most important issue of our time, David Horowitz, confronts the paradox of how so many Americans, including the leadership of the Democratic Party, could turn against the War on Terror. He finds an answer in a political Left that shares a view of America as the “Great Satan” with America’s radical Islamic enemies.    |
We don't know about 9/11, but it is a safe bet that most of our military killed or wounded in Iraq came from munitions bought by the $oddomites after Desert Storm One.
Most of the money to buy these deadly munitions came from the Oil for Food scam.
Wait just a minute there. Didn't Thomas Keane and Dan whatisname, not to mention the John-boys, and a million or so instant media pundits, scold us all for even daring to think that maybe there was some connection between Saddam and AlQaeda?
And weren't we all accused of being stupid because some folks believed there was a connection between Iraq and 9/11?
Money is fungible. Even if Saddamn and OFF didn't fund 9-11 directly, the money he and it provided no doubt freed up other funds. Either way the people behind OFF need to be rounded up so that they can be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Ping. This is a biggie, if we get some solid evidence.
bump for a later more in depth read
And why didn't those geniuses on the 9-11 Commission say something about this...?
How deep does the pile have to get before people realize this?
Good there is another Horowitz fan on here. Is there a ping list for Horowitz posts? I heard him speak in October, the man is a genius.
Can John Kerry now explain again why he wanted UN approval for the invasion of Iraq? Excuse me Mr. Kerry....where are you??? Hello???
Why isn't this repeated more loudly on Fox News? Saddam was DEEPLY involved in 9/11.
Evidence means nothing to a CommieRAT.
The only thing important to them is the destruction of America.
And weren't we all accused of being stupid because some folks believed there was a connection between Iraq and 9/11?
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Well...maybe we were not really smart to figure it out, maybe we were just prophetic.
*wink wink*
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How does Hayes know this? Unnamed sources mean no sources.
This explains a lot doesn't it? Like, the UNs obvious attempt to thwart Bush's re-election, and Annan's desperate attempts to block Volker's access to some of the records he needs in order to gain a thorough insight into the Oil for Food scandal. No wonder they were scared to death of the possibility of a 2nd Bush administration and a solid Republican majority in the House and Senate. Annan knew durn good and well exactly where that money was going and what it was going to be used for. And then the Demcorats get so hot under the collar when their "patriotism" is questioned? Give me a break.
Every time some dem whines, "There is no connection between Iraq/Saddam and OBL/terrorism," he's not attacking Bush's rationale for freeing Iraq, he's protecting Willie. That is why it is so important to match lieberry donations, Willie's pardons, Oil-forFood "beneficiaries", oil voucher recipients and, just for the heck of it, Rose Law firm clients to highlight all the connections!
Dan Rather didn't say it, so I don't believe it (A little "twilght zone" music, maestro)
Click this picture & go to the "last" for the latest UN scandals:
Perhaps people will begin to realize that the UN has been completely corrupted, is full of Islamic dictators who wish to use the UN's idea of one world government, a new world religion currently disguised as the "earth Charter" which has been sealed in the new "ark" and Gaia (mother earth is God) as a springboard to establish the new islamic world wide Caliphate. The attack on Christ world wide is sponsored by the UN, and just who gives such wonderful support towards the destruction of Christianity here in the USA? Lefties! Totalitarian rule is after all, the one thing Islam and the left have in common.
THAT IS GOOD :}}}} THANK YOU
It almost comes down to this: The established fattened bureacracy that makes money while people die (like the billionare arafat) and their little sucklings in the media elite and academic uppity snobs all are pissed off that there is a new sheriff in town that is putting an end to their charade party.
I think President Bush knows a heck of a lot more than he is able to say. He knows these people are a mess and where they are heading. But, dammit, he is a man of God and he is going to raise all the ships in the harbor whether they like it or not.
It would be interesting to see what would have happened in our history if God had not blessed us with strong leaders when we needed them most. Perhaps, "interesting" is a poor choice of word.
I believe in President Bush for his courage to stand up against this establisment; this vulgar orgy of "leaders" pleasuring themselves in the worlds riches while the common man dies. And, yeah, it takes Faith to stand up to it.
I thought so from the beginning. You'd have to be an apologist for terrorism to not think so.
No amount of proof will ever sway the leftists from their anti everything Bush position.
Let's just pray hard for W's saftey, and that he does continue to be guided by his faith.
An Iraqi national attended at least one pre planning 9/11 meeting with AQ.
Saddam knew 9/11 was coming and where we were going to be hit.
Even the Clinton Justice Department was able to obtain an indictment against OBL which cited the terrorist's ties to Iraq.
A federal judge has granted two 9/11 families a multi-million dollar judgement - against Iraq.
During the 90's, the mainstream press wrote about the world's alarm at the growing relationship between Saddam and Osama bin Laden. Old Media thinks we can't look these things up.
Hundreds of articles and links in this thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1224050/posts
Thanks- I'm cautiously optomistic- it looks like the tipping point has been reached in the MSM, and they are starting to compete with each other for stories. Once that happens, their prejudice in favor of the UN will vanish. I hope.
That's why they make things disappear into the achieve black hole. But someone somewhere has it cached.
They can try hide it, deny it, but once it gets on the senate floor, it becomes real and just won't go away. DemocRATS aren't the only ones who can demand a Congressional investigation. Then it can't be soft peddled by the Old Media.
(calling them MSM gives them too much credibility, "Old Media" is what they are now)
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Incompetent Kofi strikes again.
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I agree with you SA, 45 replies later and the key element of this story remains undisclosed: a reliable source for the claim that Saddam gave Zawahiri $300,000 in the spring of 1998. Don't misunderstand me, I believe it to be true, but belief doesn't get the job done.
--Boot Hill
NO! The NYTimes today said that the US is more to blame, and only right-wingers are pushing this anyway. End of story. How DARE we question the UN!
As a former member of JBS, this has been a dream of mine for many years: US out of the UN and they off our soil. But since doing some serious study of eschatology, I'm beginning to see beyond the UN. The thing I worry about is not a helpless or ineffective UN in the near term, but rather a completely revamped and suddenly more dangerous UN that might pose a more serious threat to our sovereignty. That organization will be the vehicle by which the AntiChrist will rise and take power.
Rossett deserves a pulitizer...the woman is amazing!!! kudos to Claudia Rossett!!!!!!
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