[The Mayor]

Bump!

[mewzilla]

Three guesses why they won't have him testify in public...If they call him at all. I know he's supposed to testify behind closed doors, but I bet the commission changes its mind.

[syriacus]

Glad to hear Ijaz will be testifying.

[Catspaw]

Did Ijaz work for the Clinton administration during this time period or was he a private negotiator, or some other role? The article doesn't say.

[eastforker]

I realy think you should ask the mods to put this in breaking news.

[wayoverontheright]

Khartoum, April 19, 1997. After eight months of negotiations and countless dinners of Nile perch and soggy French fries, I persuaded Sudan's president, Omar Hasan el Bashir, to make an unconditional offer to share Sudan's intelligence data with the FBI and CIA. The offer, made at my request directly to the 9/11 Commission's vice chairman, former Congressman Lee Hamilton (D., Ind.), sat in limbo for months. Hamilton personally discussed the offer with Berger and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, with little effect.

Here we have a SECOND member of the committee who should be answering instead of asking questions.

Bombshell #1.

At around the same time in mid-February 1998, bin Laden's key Sudan deputy traveled to Baghdad to meet Saddam's intelligence chief. The Clinton White House was aware of both developments.

Bombshell #2.

[MizSterious]

"Khartoum, April 19, 1997. After eight months of negotiations and countless dinners of Nile perch and soggy French fries, I persuaded Sudan's president, Omar Hasan el Bashir, to make an unconditional offer to share Sudan's intelligence data with the FBI and CIA. The offer, made at my request directly to the 9/11 Commission's vice chairman, former Congressman Lee Hamilton (D., Ind.), sat in limbo for months. Hamilton personally discussed the offer with Berger and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, with little effect. "

Is a paragraph or sentence missing here? How would he make an offer in 1997 to a commission that was not yet formed for an event that had not yet occurred?

[b4its2late]

When I testify under oath on May 7, 2004, in private with the commission's staff and commissioners

Looks like Ijaz is testifying....Yee ha.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[aculeus]

Bump!

[pawdoggie]

Mansoor Ijaz is a private citizen, is he not? If it's so blamed important for "the victims' families" to see government officials like Dr. Rice, whose public testimony is necessarily limited by the need to keep classified information secret, why are we not permitted to witness the testimony of a person not affiliated with the government who should not/would not have had access to classified information? Surely Mansoor could be advised not to discuss potentially classified matters (i.e. beyond the things he's already mentioned/written in public). This little bit of secrecy stinks to high heaven. If President Bush can be put under the microscope, why is X-42 immune?

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - 9/11