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Commission reports "no credible evidence" that al Qaeda and Iraq cooperated in 9/11 attacks on US
cnn.com ^ | 6/16/04 | cnn.com

Posted on 06/16/2004 6:20:23 AM PDT by NYC Republican

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911commission; alqaedaandiraq
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To: FreedomPoster; bitt
I agree... but it would put him back on the offense. It would make the news... and thump Iran a little at the same time. Win Win.

Bitt... here's the link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1154167/posts

21 posted on 06/16/2004 6:33:53 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: cricket
Who is this frickin Commission

The same commission who said that there was no evidence that Bill Klinton turned down Osama Bin Laden....not even Klinton's OWN voice on tape saying he was turning Osama down, was not evidence enough.

Any questions?

22 posted on 06/16/2004 6:34:29 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: All
Excerpt from cbsnews.com

The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks reported Wednesday that Osama bin Laden met with a top Iraqi official in 1994 but found "no credible evidence" of a link between Iraq and al Qaeda in attacks against the United States.

In a report based on research and interviews by the commission staff, the panel said that bin Laden explored possible cooperation with Saddam Hussein even though he opposed the Iraqi leader's secular regime.

A senior Iraqi intelligence official reportedly met with bin Laden in 1994 in Sudan, the panel found, and bin Laden "is said to have requested space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons, but Iraq apparently never responded."

23 posted on 06/16/2004 6:34:48 AM PDT by NYC Republican (President Reagan (1911 -2004)- Greatest President of Our Lifetime- Rest in Peace)
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To: NYC Republican

((((SIGH))) You have a good point!


24 posted on 06/16/2004 6:36:10 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: NYC Republican
Did the Administration ever say there was a DIRECT link between Saddam and 9-11? They said Saddam supported terrorism - his public payments to families of Palestinian homicide bombers proves that. They said there was an intolerable danger Saddam might share his WMD technology with terrorists. They said Saddam was a despot and a danger to his neighbors as well as his own people. But directly tied to the 9-11 plot? I do not recall that. The Administration always downplayed reports like that from Czech intelligence that suggested a direct link.

Now, that said, I do not buy for a minute that Iraq did not directly support Al Quaida, including the 9-11 plot. Iraq may not have had a hand in the planning, but I think they supported it. The key phrase in the report above is "no credible evidence": that is a far cry from "it didn't happen." Hell, 12 bozos on a jury in California thought there was no credible evidence OJ killed Nicole. Anyone believe that?
25 posted on 06/16/2004 6:37:30 AM PDT by Law is not justice but process
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To: areafiftyone

It's going to be a long, hot summer... Giddy-up... Keep the faith... and hope that President Bush has the stamina, will-power, and desire to fight these scum right through November.


26 posted on 06/16/2004 6:37:35 AM PDT by NYC Republican (President Reagan (1911 -2004)- Greatest President of Our Lifetime- Rest in Peace)
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To: sarasota

I am getting so sick of all of the media gloom and doom.

Of course they are going to talk about this non-stop.

I just wish President Bush would start defending himself. He is taking shots left and right and it is showing in the polls. I am still optimistic he will win in November, I just hate seeing all of the liberal talking heads filling the air waves about how they are right.


27 posted on 06/16/2004 6:39:17 AM PDT by MissyMa
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To: Law is not justice but process

That's exactly right. President Bush NEVER directly used 911 as a reason to go into Iraq. 911 changed the landscape, and put us in pre-emptive mode, so indirectly, it made the U.S. much more suspicious, and much less forgiving of a country with known (known at the time by everyone) WMDs. Cheney may have made more of a link, and that could be pivotal, but I've NEVER heard President Bush say, or even imply, that Iraq was directly/partially responsible, or in cahoots with, AQ.


28 posted on 06/16/2004 6:41:15 AM PDT by NYC Republican (President Reagan (1911 -2004)- Greatest President of Our Lifetime- Rest in Peace)
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To: NYC Republican

It's funny I was walking up third avenue yesterday towards the 59th Street Bridge and I noticed on one of the side panels on the phone booth was an advertisement for volunteering for the Republican Convention with Mayor Koch saying "You don't have to be a Democrat to live in New York City". It was the first one I've seen here and It made me smile. I'm glad they are advertising.


29 posted on 06/16/2004 6:42:14 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: NYC Republican

What you say is true, but here we go again. Another wave of defensive posture from our side. I'm so tired of it.


30 posted on 06/16/2004 6:42:21 AM PDT by Monty22
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To: MissyMa
I just wish President Bush would start defending himself

To a certain degree, he needs to stay "above the fray".

Cheney, Frist, Hastert, Powell, and Rice (where is she lately anyway???) need to do this, and they've been woefully inept and ineffective...

Remember lunatic Al Gore? The one good thing he did for Clinton was being an excellent attack dog, defending him aggressively at every turn... Where's Cheney???

31 posted on 06/16/2004 6:43:35 AM PDT by NYC Republican (President Reagan (1911 -2004)- Greatest President of Our Lifetime- Rest in Peace)
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To: Law is not justice but process

New headline: "Democrat dominated panel criticizes Bush administration as election nears."


32 posted on 06/16/2004 6:43:36 AM PDT by Taliesan (fiction police)
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To: NYC Republican

"Credible evidence" so that's their key words this time. First it was " with each other" to "there are no alqueida in iraq"to" the only alqueida in iraq are out of saddams control" to "no evidence whatsoever linking saddam husseinto 9-11", which moulded into "no operational ties", now they admit the evidence is there but it's just not "credible".

Did I miss any?


33 posted on 06/16/2004 6:44:47 AM PDT by bad company (God speed Dutch)
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To: NYC Republican

More here:

"9/11 Panel Says Iraq Rebuffed Bin Laden"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1154473/posts


34 posted on 06/16/2004 6:45:36 AM PDT by EllaMinnow ("President Reagan has left us, but he has left us stronger and better." President George W. Bush)
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To: NYC Republican
"Commission reports "no credible evidence" that al Qaeda and Iraq cooperated in 9/11 attacks on US"

Really?


Evidence links Saddam to 9-11, Inhofe says.
Saddam's role in 9-11.
"Saddam's Fingerprints on N.Y. Bombings" (Wall Street Journal, June 1993)

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

2 posted on 04/30/2004 1:24:46 PM EDT by Peach
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35 posted on 06/16/2004 6:46:03 AM PDT by Vigilantcitizen
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To: NYC Republican
There's a HUGE number of people who don't, and will be told time and again, that it's a bi-partisan commission, that it's headed by a Republican (Kean), and that it's totally impartial

It's not as bad as you think. The overwhelming majority of people who only half pay attention believe that ALL so-called comissions are nothing but a bunch of fatcats bloviating. Thet's all you ever see of it on TV. It's very difficult to actually watch one of these things because by the time you watch enough to know what they're talking about you're sound asleep. I know, that's what I thought of them when I was asleep (pre-911). And the remainder of the country wouldn't even know what we're talking about.
36 posted on 06/16/2004 6:48:05 AM PDT by johnb838 (When I hear "Allahu Akhbar" it means somebody is about to die.)
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To: kjam22

thanks for the link...I guess...I was wearing my tin foil hat for "snowball" the asteroid, but I guess I had better switch to "Pith Helmet" for the next couple of months...

don't like the link to the article about Russia and Iran, either...


37 posted on 06/16/2004 6:48:50 AM PDT by bitt
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To: Monty22; All
It's become the lead story on most web-sites now... Of course, CBS is first, now MSNBC and CNN follow...

Folks, don't underestimate the damage this could do... I'm not trying to be gloom-and-doom, but don't be surprised to hear a lot more Americans question the war all over again- even among those that have thus far supported it...

The impression among many Americans is that one of the reasons we went into Iraq WAS because of 911... Call it ignorance on their part...

Unfortunately, President Bush never directly came out and said "Even though we haven't found a direct link, Iraq is a danger because of X,Y, and Z... in light of the new world-wide environment of terror threats, we need to be forceful in protecting America, including pre-emptive actions...

38 posted on 06/16/2004 6:48:50 AM PDT by NYC Republican (President Reagan (1911 -2004)- Greatest President of Our Lifetime- Rest in Peace)
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To: cricket

"Who is this frickin Commission; and why do they contradict what we already know!"

By Jiminy - how do you know more than the Commission, what are your sources (why are they better than what the Commission has)? You know things different than what I know, and I feel cheated.


39 posted on 06/16/2004 6:50:00 AM PDT by familyofman (out of the night when the full moon is bright comes a horseman)
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To: bad company

That sums it up pretty well.


40 posted on 06/16/2004 6:50:36 AM PDT by NYC Republican (President Reagan (1911 -2004)- Greatest President of Our Lifetime- Rest in Peace)
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