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WSJ: Saddam's Files Show 'Direct' 9/11 Link (Salman Pak)
Newsmax.com & Wall Street Journal ^
| 5/27/04
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 05/27/2004 7:33:19 AM PDT by sathers
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Other than the I-told-you-so factor, I'd like to know what you all think this really means. The Pakistani army has many Taliban members... I'm sure members of the ISI are AQ affiliated. Pakistan is still our super-special ally, too.
To: My2Cents
When you put this criticism of the failure of communication on the part of the Bush administration together with the article about the story of
Fallujah and the lack of communication there, you see a clear pattern of an inadequate PR job. My suggestion to Bush would be to send his own PR team to the mid-east and do regular press releases, including photos. The lame-stream press can use them at will, but at least would not be able to twist the truth so wantonly.
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:31:08 PM PDT
by
Eva
Maybe they can have Karen Ryan and Alberto Garcia do those report too...
To: RedBloodedAmerican
And the Rope-a-Dope Begins. I wonder if the media will carry it? Email this article to all news outlets!
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:40:06 PM PDT
by
Bobbisox
(And the Rope-a-Dope Begins!)
To: Jack Black
Here's the link to WSJ. You may need to register though.
And an excerpt:
Saddam's Files
New evidence of a link between Iraq and al Qaeda.
Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT
One thing we've learned about Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein is that the former dictator was a diligent record keeper. Coalition forces have found--literally--millions of documents. These papers are still being sorted, translated and absorbed, but they are already turning up new facts about Saddam's links to terrorism.
We realize that even raising this subject now is politically incorrect. It is an article of faith among war opponents that there were no links whatsoever--that "secular" Saddam and fundamentalist Islamic terrorists didn't mix. But John Ashcroft's press conference yesterday reminds us that the terror threat remains, and it seems especially irresponsible for journalists not to be open to new evidence. If the CIA was wrong about WMD, couldn't it have also missed Saddam's terror links?
One striking bit of new evidence is that the name Ahmed Hikmat Shakir appears on three captured rosters of officers in Saddam Fedayeen, the elite paramilitary group run by Saddam's son Uday and entrusted with doing much of the regime's dirty work. Our government sources, who have seen translations of the documents, say Shakir is listed with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
This matters because if Shakir was an officer in the Fedayeen, it would establish a direct link between Iraq and the al Qaeda operatives who planned 9/11. Shakir was present at the January 2000 al Qaeda "summit" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at which the 9/11 attacks were planned. The U.S. has never been sure whether he was there on behalf of the Iraqi regime or whether he was an Iraqi Islamicist who hooked up with al Qaeda on his own.
To: sathers
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:49:11 PM PDT
by
pgkdan
To: TenthAmendmentChampion
HAHAHAHAHHAHAH. That was a good laugh - however, this was printed in the Wall St. Journal.
147
posted on
05/27/2004 12:50:26 PM PDT
by
quant5
To: sathers
Ouch, if you're a dembocrat, this smarts!
To: My2Cents
Its like we have a catch and release policy with terrorists. Philippines are great for this. First you catch them, put them in prison, let them escape, rinse and repeat.
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:55:57 PM PDT
by
Ranger
To: Eva
Your suggestion is a good one, but I fear that there is no "PR team" in the Administration. The White House is in desperate need of one...a good one!
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posted on
05/27/2004 1:24:22 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well....there you go again.")
To: sathers
Laurie Mylroie was right.
To: cyncooper
Is this story starting to dribble out? And where are those freepers who constantly disrupted threads like this - the johngalters and burkeman1? Oh, that's right - they are banned.
152
posted on
05/27/2004 1:57:15 PM PDT
by
Peach
(The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: My2Cents
153
posted on
05/27/2004 1:58:59 PM PDT
by
Peach
(The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: sathers
I'm sure this will lead the news on all of the networks tonight!
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posted on
05/27/2004 2:00:52 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Calpernia
From your cogent post: Although the CIA knew that al-Midhar had a multiple entry visa to the US, it did not put him on a terrorist watchlist or inform immigration authorities or the State Department. The Clinton wall built by Jamie Gorelick and Janet Reno (to protect clinton and the dnc from exposure for the criminal acceptance of campaign funds from the Red Chinese) created a red-tape gordian knot the CIA didn't want to breech because they didn't want to turn everything they knew over to a corrupt White House goon at every turn!
155
posted on
05/27/2004 2:09:51 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
To: Peach
Peach you're a....well, you're a peach!
156
posted on
05/27/2004 2:17:35 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well....there you go again.")
To: Shryke
And, using Free Republic's Lessons Learned about media bias, how long do you think it will take for the networks, NYT, LAT, and other liberal bastions of 'truth' to report on this?
Hint: about as long as it takes Al Gore to get his sanity back. In other words, ain't gonna happen.
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posted on
05/27/2004 2:22:57 PM PDT
by
CT
To: epluribus_2
You have neglected to factor in the lies that the dnc lapdog meida will tell repeatedly to blunt the truth regarding the jet sitting at Salman Pak. Already a liberal puke has said on his 'hackball' program that Saddam has said he was training Iraqi security to take back a hijacked jet from hijackers. Of course the testimony of someone actually trained at Salman Pak (a terrorist) is of no consequence to a liberal puke who has his agenda and his talking points to push.
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posted on
05/27/2004 2:24:20 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
To: sathers
Salmon Pak has been out there for months and months. Yet the media outlets do not report it.
Similar to Abu Ghraib. The media only reported on it when it was oppotune for them...when the soldiers were about to be tried.
To: CT
how long do you think it will take for the networks, NYT, LAT, and other liberal bastions of 'truth' to report on this?Immutable liberal universal rules:
1. There are no WMD and there is no 9/11 connection to Iraq.
2. If WMDs are found or evidence of a 9/11 connection to Iraq is discovered, refer to immutable rule no. 1.
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