Iraq & al Qaeda (must read)

NRO ^ | 5/17/04 | Andrew C. McCarthy

[Cindy]

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20040622-111233-5559r.htm

"Saudi jihadis aping Iraq rebels"


By John R. Bradley
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Dozens of Saudi jihadis are reported to have been killed in Fallujah in recent months, and many Saudi families have visited the Iraqi city to pay their respects to their "martyred" sons."
    

[Cindy]

WASHINGTON TIMES.com - Editorials/Op-Ed: "IGNORING PUTIN'S REVELATION" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Mr. Putin said that Iraq was planning some kind of attack against the United States. Unfortunately, the same major media that have erroneously suggested that the September 11 commission's report debunks any linkage between al Qaeda and Iraq have shown little interest in Mr. Putin's revelation.") (June 23, 2004) (Read More...)

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160569/posts

"Ex-CIA analyst: Iran tied to 9-11, al-Qaida"
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | June 26, 2004 | Editor


Posted on 06/26/2004 12:28:10 AM PDT by F14 Pilot

[Cindy]

Thread Updated - Info Ping

[Cindy]

HUMAN EVENTS online.com: "FAHRENHEIT 9-11, SO WHAT?" by Michael P Tremoglie (June 29, 2004) (Read More...)

[FairOpinion]

Thanks for the ping, Cindy.

I bookmarked the article.

[VOA]

bump

[Cindy]

Archives - FYI:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39499

"BOOK EXCERPT"
"Slain terrorist held clues to Saddam-al-Qaida tie
Yossef Bodansky uncovers secrets of most controversial war of our time"

Posted: July 17, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

[fantom]

it's really only important that folks like us understand. remember it's places like this are driving the new reality . most people will not care to fully understand a lot things, they are busy getting the day to day done. but when the word is proven either way at places like this the word gets out fast. it's amazing to see that day old headlines , and aruba are now what passes for news. gore must rue the day he invented this baby huh .

[Enchante]

As you can tell I'm busy reviewing lots of threads from the past few years, checking out articles and posts for details that may seem newly relevant as the ABLE DANGER story unfolds. I believe that many aspects of the 9/11 plot, and especially the mendacious failures of the 9/11 O-mission, will become evident now to millions of people, and it is important to get ahold of all the information that has come out over the past few years that the media and the O-missioners neglected, distorted, and/or lied about.

One thing that jumps out at me from this outstanding article by Andrew McCarthy is the following:

"[the Commission]....does not mention, let alone explain, let alone explain away, that al Midhar was escorted to the meeting by Ahmed Hikmat Shakir."

This Malaysia meeting pre-9/11 and the role of Ahmed Hikmat Shakir is HUGE, because there is no question the meeting took place or that some of the 9/11 hijackers were present, and no one can seriously question that Shakir was an Iraqi intel/Fedayeen agent, as evidenced by later details when he was arrested in Jordan.....

The media and the supposed experts are seriously derelict in not holding the 9/11 Commission to the fire over Shakir -- I can see no plausible explanation at all except that he was an Iraqi intel agent meeting with 9/11 terrorists.....

[sono]

Able Danger by itself is explosive in that it has the potential to destroy most of the credibility of the 9/11 Commission especially in the crucial areas of the Atta timelines. Remember that those timelines were used to explain that the Czech Foreign Office was mistaken in believing that Atta had met with Iraqi Consul in Prague, Ahmed al-Ani. The 9/11 Commission claimed that their time line had Atta in Florida and not in Prague, its worth noting that the Czech Foreign service not only has stuck to its story but has also produced the Iraqis Consul’s appointment book that shows a meeting with the Hamburg Student during the time the Czech Foreign Service claimed that Atta met Ahmed al-Ani. Atta was known as the Hamburg Student. The main players of the hijackers all came out of the Hamburg cell.

Destroying the 9/11 Commissions timelines and putting Atta in Prague during the time period that the Czech Foreign Service shows he met Ahmed al-Ani won’t do a lot of favors to those who were against the war. Obviously if Saddam was in the loop of 9/11 then any arguments against the war would fall flat. You would think that this might be of some importance to the Bush Administration. But then again there has always been enough information to tie the Iraqis directly to the sort of Terrorism that would force us to act and yet the Bush administration never saw fit to exploit them. For instance it is absolutely proven that Ahmed al-Ani was in the process of an attempt to use Islamic Radicals to blow up Radio Free Europe and yet the Bush administration has never made as big an issue out of this as could have been made.

In addition to the explosive nature of the ABLE DANGER reports, the implications of incompetence inside of our intelligence apparatus and the refusal to correct the biggest problems show that in the face of the most terrible terrorist attack in history our Government Agencies are still unwilling to correct past practices. Given the terrible nature of emerging threats this should terrify you.

http://www.papadoc.net/2005/08/why-able-danger-story-is-important-and.html

[Enchante]

Time for "all hands on deck" -- I think anyone who can spare any time to review a lot of the threads about 9/11, Iraq, etc. could help a lot with the emerging Atta/ABLE DANGER story. I'm thinking that if that story continues to heat up as it should, this may be the last best chance to try to get media and political figures to take notice of the massive evidence of Saddam's connections to terrorism and the grotesque cover-up trash that the 9/11 O-missioner presented to the public. That's what I'm going to do, anyway, review all available evidence and start writing letters to reporters, editors, Congress-critters, etc.

[TomasUSMC]

If your in a bar and you see Abdul, who hates your guts, who is always talking shiite about you, someone who is always helping your enemies ..... and the lights in the bar go out...... AND then a bottle hits you upside the head. Then the lights come back on.

Democrats would call CSI to try and find out, if it was or wasn't Abdul,who hit you.
Republicans let Abdul call CSI to find out who hit him, after he wakes up.

Different strokes for different folks.

[Valin]

Democrats would call CSI to try and find out, if it was or wasn't Abdul,who hit you.


And if it was Abdul, they'd figure it was their fault.

[nopardons]

bttt

[ravingnutter]

Yes, the Malaysia meeting is important, and like all other clues, it was dismissed by the DIA and resulted in not only 9/11, but the USS Cole bombing:

One piece of the puzzle that Mr. Fallis uncovered was an intelligence report about a secret meeting of al Qaeda terrorists in a condominium complex in Malaysia in January 2000.

Information obtained after September 11 identified two of them as Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who would be on American Airlines Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon. They met with a former Malaysian army captain, Yazi Sufaat, described by Malaysian authorities as a key link in Southeast Asia for al Qaeda, who later would be tied to the bombing of the Cole. [Yet another name to add to the list of terrorists]

Source

Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, wrote to all DIA personnel this week to explain the protest resignation of a DIA analyst in October. The analyst, Kie Fallis, quit the day after the USS Cole was attacked by suicide bombers in Aden, Yemen. Mr. Fallis charged that a report he had written on the threat of a terrorist attack in Yemen was suppressed by senior DIA officials.

Mr. Fallis' resignation letter stated that he had "significant analytic differences" with DIA superiors over a terrorist threat assessment produced in June.

U.S. intelligence officials said there were warnings, but they arrived too late. The National Security Agency issued a report shortly after the Cole was bombed warning of attacks in the region —too late to be useful.

Adm. Wilson said he asked the Pentagon inspector general (IG) to investigate Mr. Fallis' charges. In an awkwardly worded statement, the three-star admiral said on Wednesday the IG "found no evidence to support the public perception that information warning of an attack on Cole was suppressed, ignored or even available in DIA." What about the private perception?

The admiral's statement drew smirks from several intelligence officials. It relied on a dodge often used by intelligence analysts to dismiss unwelcome information. Saying there is "no evidence" —like that presented to a court of law — is often used to mask the fact there is lots of intelligence to the contrary that spooks would rather not talk about in public.

Source

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT to your post!

[ravingnutter]

They have car rental records as well...

Meanwhile, in a February 24 letter to James Beasley, Jr., the attorney in the aforementioned lawsuit, Czech U.N. Ambassador Hynek Kmonicek affirms an October 26, 2001 statement by Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross: "In this moment we can confirm, that during the next stay of Mr. Muhammad Atta in the Czech Republic there was the contact with the official of the Iraqi intelligence, Mr. Al Ani, Ahmed Khalin Ibrahim Samir, who was on 22nd April 2001 expelled from the Czech Republic on the basis of activities which were not compatible with the diplomatic status." Atta flew from Virginia Beach, Virginia to Prague on April 7, 2001. Car-rental records place him in the Czech capitol the next day. He flew home to Florida that April 9.

National Review

[ravingnutter]

From my files:

"The administration does not want the victims of Sept. 11 interfering with its foreign policy," says Peter M. Leitner, director of the Washington Center for Peace and Justice (WCPJ). Leitner says the Bush administration may be concerned that if other victims of the Sept. 11 attacks also filed lawsuits and won civil-damage awards it would reduce Iraqi resources that the administration wants to use to rebuild the country. Leitner and others say this explains Bush's reticence at this time to report the convincing evidence linking Saddam and al-Qaeda that has been collected by U.S. investigators and private organizations seeking damages. "The [Bush] administration is intentionally changing the topic," claims Leitner, and sidestepping the issue that "Iraq has been in a proxy war against the U.S. for years and has used al-Qaeda in that war against the United States."

Source

But for the life of me, I can't figure out why they don't come clean now that Iraq is immune from such lawsuits.

[Jet Jaguar]

Whoops. You were spotted! See ya. B'bye.