[Peach]

I had a computer crash and lost the link to that Iraqi state run newspaper article; if anyone has it please ping me.

[Peach]

List of newspaper article in the 90's which mention the world's concern regarding the growing relationship between OBL and Saddam: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/946809/posts?page=1

Son of Saddam coordinates OBL activities:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/951911/posts

The AQ connection (excellent):http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/944617/posts?page=2

Western Nightmare: http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,798270,00.html

Saddam's link to OBL: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/866105/posts

NYT: Iraq and AQ agree to cooperate: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/985906/posts

Document linking them: http://tennessean.com/nation-world/archives/03/06/34908297.shtml?Element_ID=34908297

Iraq and terrorism - no doubt about it: http://www.nationalreview.com/robbins/robbins091903.asp

A federal judge rules there are links:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/986293/posts

Wall Street Journal on Iraq and AQ:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/987129/posts

Iraq and Iran contact OBL: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/981055/posts

More evidence: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F04%2F27%2Fwalq27.xml

Saddam's AQ connection: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/969032/posts

Further connections: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1007969/posts

What a court of law said about the connections:
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/98110402.htm

Some miscellaneous stuff on connections:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/989201/posts

[Peach]

Could you please leave this in breaking news for a bit so it gets wide coverage?

The issue is becoming a political football again, even on FR, and I think the more people who understand the links Saddam had with OBL, the more steadfast people will be regarding the fighting in Iraq.

[tallhappy]

Hey. In 1998 the Clinton administration officially stated that bin Laden and al Qaeda were cooperating with Iraq on weapons development as outlined in an indictment against bin Laden for the African Embassy bombings.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Remember the Lost and Suffering on September 11, 2001

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33

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HILLARY and TERRORISM's plan to regain the White House

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022571/posts

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[yonif]

Saddam may have had links with Al Queda. But it should not matter at all. Is Al Queda the only terrorist group in the world? Is the US fighting a war on just Al Queda or on all terrorism? Iraq was a terrorist state even before 9/11.

The debate over whether or not Saddam had links to Al Queda may have some justification, but Americans should not be obsessed with it. The left makes these arguments all the time like "Saddam had no link to Al Queda." It doesn't matter at all if he did or did not. We know for a fact Saddam had links to terrorists. And this is a war on terrorism.

Looking and looking into the debate over Saddam and his links to Al Queda just to satisfy the left and others is a waste of time. If people believe in the war on terrorism, then Saddam's regime was a justified target. If they don't believe that Saddam was a justified target by the US as part of its war on terrorism, then they do not believe in the war on terrorism.

[Peach]

Richard Clarke used to believe in an Iraq/AQ connection:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2097901/

[Peach]

Saddam's Ambassador to Al Qaeda: (February 2004, Weekly Standard)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1083778/posts

[Peach]

Report details Saddam's support for terrorists who killed Americans (March 2004, NewsMax)

Yes - it's NewsMax but loaded with interesting bullet points.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1097521/posts?page=1

[Peach]

Found the the link and quote from the Iraqi newspaper pre 9/11:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1106657/posts?page=1

[Steven W.]

Remember Salman Pak!

[BlessedBeGod]

This thread was already started with that in mind: "Saddam's Fingerprints on N.Y. Bombings" (Wall Street Journal, June 1993)

[Peach]

Colin Powell - SADDAM WORKED WITH AL QAEDA FOR YEARS:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/05/sprj.irq.alqaeda.links/

[Peach]

Author Richard Miniter on The Iraq-Al Qaeda Connections
(September 2003):

http://www.techcentralstation.com/092503F.html

[Peach]

UN Oil for food scandal seen as Iraq tie to Al Qaeda (June 2003):

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125899/posts

[marblehead17]

ping

[Peach]

Saddam and OBL Make a Pact (The New Yorker, February 2003):

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030210fa_fact

[Peach]

Al Qaeda's Poison Gas (Wall Street Journal, April 2004):


http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005016

[VeniVidiVici]

Sorry to be blunt, but anybody who really doesn't think Hussein had links to Bin Laden is a moron. Religion has nothing to do with it.

Moot point anyhow. Hussein never abided by the terms of the cease fire from the first Gulf War. Bang - he's gone.

[MizSterious]

Thanks for putting it all together!

[GmbyMan]

Thanks for posting this, Peach. Bookmarked!