Terrorist Behind September 11 Strike was Trained by Saddam

The Telegraph ^ | December 14, 2003 | Con Coughlin

[nutmeg]

bttt

[GeorgiaYankee]

"No connection" bookmark

[Mr. Silverback]

Bump again!

[snopercod]

How does one train to be a terrorist?

Do you...like...do pushups or something? Is there a spacial Kata that you do over and over out in the desert? Do you watch videos?

Do you get a certificate and college credits when you complete the course?

[CDHart]

BTTT!

[truthandlife]

This is going to end up being buried.

I really do suspect the timing of this story from the liberal Telegraph. Only time will tell. I hope it gets more press and I hope we try Saddam in the U.S. for the WTC attacks.

[Mo1]

Has anyone from the TV News Stations mentioned this information yet???

[aristeides]

The Telegraph is not liberal. It is an arch-Tory newspaper.

[aristeides]

Has anyone from the TV News Stations mentioned this information yet???

Look at my #398.

[Mo1]

Thanks .. At least someone reported it

[jmstein7]

Yeah, saw this on CNN... NOT!

[Prodigal Son]

Ok. I was just posting the last two paragraphs because the article was excerpted ;-)

[nuffsenuff]

Well wouldn't you know it?

Tahir was the one who killed Abu Nidal...

He is also the guy who betrayed Hussein and told us he was going to meet him at that restaurant in Baghdad... The one in which the bombs dropped a few minutes after Hussein had figured out he had been set up...

This Tahir guy was working all kinds of angles... He is the missing link in this whole sordid mess.

We need to find him... ASAP

[piasa]

1999 approx : (IRAQ : ABU NIDAL BACK IN BAGHDAD AFTER BEING BASED IN SUDAN) It was reported that Abu Nidal went to Iraq for cancer treatment (which speaks volumes about his predicament since, to put it delicately, Iraq ain't Switzerland). Apparently it was thought that, for all the work he had done for the regime in the past, the Iraqis "owed" him. And so he set up an office with a guard and an apartment- "An "Apparent" Suicide : Terrorist Abu Nidal dies in Iraq after he shoots himself in the head. Four times." by Victorino Matus , The Weekly Standard, 09/10/2002 12:00:00 AM

1999 : (ABU NIDAL IS BACK IN BAGHDAD) Throughout all of these years, Nidal also found himself moving from place to place, like an ordinary mercenary on the run. He went from the West Bank to Saudi Arabia, then to Jordan, Sudan, and Baghdad. In 1983, Iraq expelled him and he landed in Syria. Then Libya. Then Egypt. And finally back to Baghdad around 1999. - "An "Apparent" Suicide : Terrorist Abu Nidal dies in Iraq after he shoots himself in the head. Four times." by Victorino Matus , The Weekly Standard, 09/10/2002 12:00:00 AM

1999 : (CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, SUDAN'S OFFER TO TURN OVER BIN LADEN) The Clinton admin.spurned Sudanese help on two other occasions as well. In 1999, MSNBC.com reported that Sudan offered to turn over to the US two men who arrived on an airliner from Nairobi the day the U.S. Embassy there was bombed. The US declined, and the men were allowed to travel on to Pakistan. Why would the US be so resistant to help from Khartoum on such serious issues? In part, it was the belief that Sudan was playing a role in Iraq's chemical weapons program.

[cgk]

bflr

[piasa]

JULY 21, 2001 : (IRAQ, FOREWARNING IN NEWSPAPERS) On July 21, approximately six weeks before the September 11 th attacks, Iraqi columnist Mulhalhal reported that bin Laden was making plans to “demolish the Pentagon after he destroys the White House.” Mulhalhal’s July 21 article further informed that bin Laden would strike America “on the arm that is already hurting.” Upon information and belief, this references a second Iraqi sponsored attack on the World Trade Center. This interpretation is further bolstered by another reference to New York as “[bin Laden] will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra everytime he hears his songs.” (e.g., “New York, New York”) identifying New York, New York as a target. Mulhalhal further indicated, “The wings of a dove and the bullet are all but one and the same in the heart of a believer.” (Emphasis supplied) This appears to be a reference to the use of commercial aircraft as a weapon. The information was reported in an Iraqi newspaper who’s editor-in-chief serves as secretary to Uday Hussein’s Iraqi Syndicate of Journalists. The article expressed Iraqi admiration and support for bin Laden’s plans and its appearance in the newspaper would clearly have to be endorsed by Saddam Hussein himself. All Iraqi news media is strictly controlled and censored by the government of Saddam Hussein and is under the direct oversight of Uday Hussein. Various members of Iraqi intelligence work at and control the content of each and every newspaper published inside Iraq. The information contained in Mulhalhal’s published statements were known prior to the events of September 11 th , and that Mulhalhal has ties to Iraqi intelligence, demonstrates foreknowledge of the planned attacks by bin Laden and indicates support by Iraqi co-conspirators. - Findlaw, Ashton, et al. v. al Qaeda ... see also http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003069 from the WSJ

JULY 21, 2001 : (IRAQI PAPER AL-NASIRIYA PRAISES BIN LADEN) More recently, and eerily, a July 21, 2001, commentary in the Iraqi publication Al-Nasiriya praised bin Laden: "In this man's heart you'll find an insistence, a strange determination that he will reach one day the tunnels of the White House and will bomb it with everything that is in it."
The article recounts bin Laden's attacks on U.S. targets and U.S. efforts "to pressure the Taliban movement so that it would hand them bin Laden, while he continues to smile and still thinks seriously, with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House."
The commentary is ominously prescient, especially since it could never have appeared without official sanction. "Bin Laden is a healthy phenomenon in the Arab spirit," it continues, speaking about his goal to "drive off the Marines" from Arabia. Most eerily of all, the writer adds that those Marines "will be going away because the revolutionary bin Laden is insisting very convincingly that he will strike America on the arm that is already hurting. That the man . . . will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs." Is that a reference to Sinatra's "New York, New York"? Did Saddam know what would happen two months later? - "Saddam and the Next 9/11 : The Iraqi dictator and his son talk about the uses of biological weapons," REVIEW & OUTLOOK, OpinionJournal, WSJ.com, Friday, February 14, 2003 12:01 a.m. EST

[NeoCaveman]

The truth is finally out there.

We knew this long ago.

[NeoCaveman]

Has anyone from the TV News Stations mentioned this information yet???

NBC News in the 8 am hour had an interview with the guy from the Telegraph.

[petercooper]

Imagine that. Tell it to all the liberal CSPAN callers I heard this a.m. reminding us how there was no connection between 9-11 and poor little old Saddam. And that Saddam's capture was not that important, and how we should have left him alone...

I ran into a neighbor this a.m., and asked if he heard the news that they caught Saddam. He says "Was he healthy, and OK?" I couldn't believe it! Liberals have such a demented view of the world - Scary!

[camas]

do they use the same calendar in their offical work as we do??

july 1 2001??