1998 Bin Laden Indictment cites AL QAEDA - IRAQ ARRANGEMENT

FAS ^ | November 6, 1998 | US Grand Jury

[FairOpinion]

In February 1998, Al Qaeda joined forces with Gamaa't, Al Jihad, the Jihad Movement in Bangladesh and the "Jamaat ul Ulema e Pakistan" to issue a fatwah (an Islamic religious ruling) declaring war against American civilians worldwide under the banner of the "International Islamic Front for Jibad on the Jews and Crusaders."

4. Al Qaeda also forged alliances with the National Islamic Front in the Sudan and with the government of Iran and its associated terrorist group Hezballah for the purpose of working together against their perceived common enemies in the West, particularly the United States.

In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq.

[Syncro]

This Indictment is informative.

I was just talking to a skeptical friend (actually an employee) and he told me that because Saddam and Usama hate each other they didn't do anything together.

I have printed out the 7 page indictment linked above for him...

[onyx]

I was just talking to a skeptical friend (actually an employee)...






Between your employee and Mo's in-laws... LOL!

[Mo1]

Hey FO .. were you the one looking for this info and timeline

http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/Clinton_let_bin_laden.htm
(snip)

December 5, 2001

Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize
Sudan offered up the terrorist and data on his network. The then-president and his advisors didn't respond.

President Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year.

I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities.

From 1996 to 1998, I opened unofficial channels between Sudan and the Clinton administration. I met with officials in both countries, including Clinton, U.S. National Security Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger and Sudan's president and intelligence chief. President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, who wanted terrorism sanctions against Sudan lifted, offered the arrest and extradition of Bin Laden and detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas.

[pawdoggie]

This "indictment" is an obvious fraud. It strains credulity to believe that our top-notch former Attorney General Janet Reno would have permitted Federal Prosecutors to go forward with such an indictment when the whole world knows that there is not a shred of evidence of a connection between the Iraqis and Al-Qaeda. Why, if this indictment were real, it could have seriously jeopardized the Herculean efforts the Clinton administration had undertaken to prosecute Osama bin Laden. Can you imagine Bin Laden "walking" away from a Federal rap because his indictment was based on bogus intelligence?

[FairOpinion]

Did you see this one?

Might we worth reminding people that there WAS good reason to go after Saddam.

[ironman]

It drives me crazy how the media, especially Chris Matthews, fails to know about the Iraq al-Qaeda connection.
Case Closed
OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1027620/posts

[Eric Hogue 1380 KTKZ]

Got it and have added to tomorrow's talking points for the morning show - thanks again!!!!!

[aculeus]

BTTT.

[FairOpinion]

I am very glad you are getting the word out!

The Democrats simultaneously complaining, "why didn't Bush act pre-emptively on general info" (to avert 9-11) and "why DID he act pre-emptively"(against Iraq, which may well have prevented an attack with WMD much worse than 9-11).

In the Bin Laden they specifically stated that the area of cooperation between Bin Laden and Iraq was in the area of "weapons development". What do people think that means?!

[FairOpinion]

The more attention, the better!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115745/posts

The real point is that the 1998 TIME magazine article

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/story/0,9171,1101981221-140773,00.html


said that Bin Laden wanted to attack inside the US.

"Intelligence sources tell TIME they have evidence that bin Laden may be planning his boldest move yet--a strike on Washington or possibly New York City in an eye-for-an-eye retaliation. "

Bush WAS getting just ancient history in that PDB. I would like to serve some crow to Ben-Veniste and watch him eat it, the way he was making a bid deal about the title of the PDB.

[Alamo-Girl]

Indeed. Thanks for the ping!