[XHogPilot]

Re: post #6. Have I been living in a cave?!?! I never saw so many chronological linkages between Saddam and terrorism. Almost worth buying a full page add for it in The Fishwrap aka The NY Times. If Sean Penn can do it, why can't we?
How did you put these together?

P.S. Lack of the USS Cole is interesting. An opportune port call to good to pass up or..?

P.P.S. Are you aware Richard Clarke, while describing a list of terrorist events of the 90's, included TWA-800? Scary.

[GailA]

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[Diogenesis]

"P.P.S. Are you aware Richard Clarke, while describing a list of terrorist events of the 90's, included TWA-800? Scary."

If Clarke and Clinton and Hillary had been completely HONEST
to the American public about the Islamic-crashed airplanes, like TWA800, in the 90's
would Americans have been on alert on 911 and prevented at least one of the atrocities?

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[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Lack of the USS Cole is interesting. An opportune port call to good to pass up or..?

On October 12th, 1990, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 672 -- a condemnation of Israel's retaliation against the Al Aqsa Mosque that killed 19 Palestinians. The attack was provoked by a terrorist attack on worshippers at the western wall.

Stockpiles of weapons were found cached at the Temple Mount, so it was a planned terrorist attack, not a spontaneous uprising. It is widely believed that the attack was masterminded by Saddam Hussein, in order to escalate tension in the region, fracture the coalition lining up against him and draw attention away from Kuwait. When the U.S. immediately began to campaign for the resolution to rebuke Israel, Hussein's plan fell apart.

This was a very bad day for Saddam Hussein. It was the scene of his first major miscalculation in the war (besides starting it in the first place).

On October 12, 2000, the Cole was bombed, killing 17.

On October 12, 2002, the nightclub in Bali was bombed, killing 187.

There's definitely some history with that date, but it's a little too nuanced to put in a post like the one above. It needs to be explained more than the other dates.

Have I been living in a cave?!?! I never saw so many chronological linkages between Saddam and terrorism.

As far as I know, nobody's ever put them all in one place at one time. When you start lining them up like this, it's just chilling.

Almost worth buying a full page add for it in The Fishwrap aka The NY Times. If Sean Penn can do it, why can't we?

Wish I had the scratch, I'd do it myself this fall. If the Dems want to make issues of the war in Iraq and 9/11, this is the stuff we need to hammer them with. I'm tired of the shrill "there's no connection between Iraq and 9/11" chorus coming from these DNC programmed zombies. They need to be shot down ever time they spew this outrageous lie.

How did you put these together?

I was reading that Tariq Aziz interview from CNN (linked above in #6), and when he said "the end of the war in April 19", it just jumped off the screen. That's what got me started.

I posted it here back in November, but I included some things I probably shouldn't have, and it didn't get the reaction I had hoped for.

Thanks for giving me the occasion to touch it up and bring it back. I believe it's a striking piece of circumstantial evidence.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

P.P.S. Are you aware Richard Clarke, while describing a list of terrorist events of the 90's, included TWA-800? Scary.

I'll add the transcipt to this thread later today.

[piasa]

It should be noted that the USS Cole was on its way to enforce sanctions on Iraq when it was bombed. The USS Cole was the second attempt to take out a US ship- the first being the failed plot on USS The Sullivans which is believed to have been a palestinian terrorist operation (their boat sank before reaching the US ship).

Iraqi officers have said that al Qaeda were in Iraq and were being trainied with the help of Uday. On Hussein's birthday in one year, Uday put on a demonstration for his father where a US ship was attacked using divers.