Thank you for all you do, kattracks.
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This report (perperly called the Habboush al-Tikriti memo)has NEVER been demonstrated to be a forgery although it has been condemnded as a forgery and rumored to be a forgery without an offer of evidence.
The assertions that the document is a forgery flow mainly from one Hassan Mneimneh, an "authority" on Iraqi documents. But, Mneimneh, who stated that the document "probably a forgery" hadn't even seen it.
Frankly, I wouldn't like to see this very intriguing document dismissed except on the basis of forensic analysis.
This has not been forthcoming for the past six months. I can't imagine that the liberal press, so eager to disprove or dismiss all connections between Hussein and al Qaida would not want to conclusively disprove the authenticity of the Habboush al-Tikriti memo.
Less than two months before 9/11/01, the state-controlled Iraqi newspaper “Al-Nasiriya” carried a column headlined, “American, an Obsession called Osama Bin Ladin.” (July 21, 2001)
In the piece, Baath Party writer Naeem Abd Muhalhal predicted that bin Laden would attack the US “with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House.”
The same state-approved column also insisted that bin Laden “will strike America on the arm that is already hurting,” and that the US “will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs” – an apparent reference to the Sinatra classic, “New York, New York”.
That and hundreds of other articles that link OBL and Saddam:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127451/posts
did anyone else notice these phrases Allawi used: "before o the war of liberation" and "prior to liberation."???
Of course, the media keep telling us that Iraqis don't consider us liberators--but, if not, then who are these guys that Allawi refers to?
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