Nets Pounce on No bin Laden-Saddam Link, But Bush Believed Media

Media Research Center ^ | Thursday June 17, 2004 | staff

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The 1,743^rd CyberAlert. Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996
Thursday June 17, 2004 (Vol. Nine; No. 106)
 

1. Nets Pounce on No bin Laden-Saddam Link, But Bush Believed Media
The networks pounced Wednesday night on how the 9-11 Commission decided, as CNN’s David Ensor put it in echoing the commission’s exaggeration of administration claims, “the commission staff report says Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 and backs that up with some evidence.” CBS’s John Roberts stressed how the commission undermined President Bush, describing the Iraq connection as “one of President Bush’s last surviving justifications for war in Iraq.” Roberts charged: “The report is yet another blow to the President’s credibility.” ABC’s Terry Moran proposed: “After the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq undermined President Bush’s main argument for going to war, this new finding by the 9-11 Commission challenges his case on another front.” Unmentioned by ABC, how maybe the Bush administration believed there was a bin Laden-Iraq connection because they believed ABC News. In 1999, ABC’s Sheila MacVicar trumpeted how “ABC News has learned that” a top Iraqi official “made a secret trip to Afghanistan to meet with bin Laden. Three intelligence agencies tell ABC News they cannot be certain what was discussed, but almost certainly, they say, bin Laden has been told he would be welcome in Baghdad.”

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That second item is interesting. So why did Clinton not have enough evidence to gather in Bin Laden when he was offered by the Sudan's???

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Defender2]

Good Questions. Wish I knew the answers.

[Alamo-Girl]

You're quite welcome, Defender2! Hugs and smooches to you!

But I see that Mo1 has found the actual indictment that Ernest was looking for - mine were only article excerpts giving clues. Kudos to Mo1!!!

BTW, I'd love to see the indictment for the Somalia incident which was not pursued by the Reno Justice Department...

[Defender2]

I would Too, Alamo-Girl. I also wonder why it was not pursued.


Hugs again, D2

:-)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for dropping by!

Where is everyone?

Must be a hot discussion going on womewhere else.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

"womewhere" should be "somewhere"

[Mo1]

Still here .. I was just looking at some old links I book marked

But the eyes are getting pretty blurry, so I'm off to bed

If I can be of any further help .. just let me know what ya need

Sweet Dreams

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks, i must shut down soon. Pulling some things from the PDF document:

Bin Laden Endorses the Nuclear Bomb of Islam kkkk. On or about May 29, 1998, the defendant USAMA BIN LADEN issued a statement entitled “The Nuclear Bomb of Islam,” under the banner of the “International Islamic Front for Fighting the Jews and the Crusaders,” in which he stated that “it is the duty of the Muslims to prepare as much force as possible to terrorize the enemies of God”;

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More:

The May 1998 Press Conference pppp.

On or about May 17, 1998, AL-‘OWHALI, using a passport in the alias “Khaled Salem Saleh Bin Rashed” traveled from Sanaa, Yemen, to Karachi, Pakistan, arriving in Karachi on May 18, 1998; qqqq.

In the days immediately following a May 1998 press interview, the defendant USAMA BIN LADEN held a press conference in Khost, Afghanistan, attended also by the defendants MUHAMMAD ATEF and MOHAMED RASHED DAOUD AL-'OWHALI, where USAMA BIN LADEN repeated his intention to kill Americans;

[Defender2]

The more info the better, Thanks, Ernest


FReegards, D2

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More:

Usama Bin Laden Issues Further Threats in June 1999 eeeeeee.

In or about June 1999, in an interview with an Arabic-language television station, defendant USAMA BIN LADEN issued a further threat indicating that all American males should be killed.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

COUNT FOUR: CONSPIRACY TO USE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AGAINST NATIONALS OF THE UNITED STATES

The Grand Jury further charges:
21. The allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 9 are repeated herein.
22. From at least 1991 until the date of the filing of this Indictment, in the Southern District of New York, in Afghanistan, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, the Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Azerbaijan, the Philippines and elsewhere out of the jurisdiction of any particular state or district, USAMA BIN LADEN, defendants at least one of whom was first brought to and arrested in the Southern District of New York, together with other members and associates of al Qaeda, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and others known and unknown to the grand jury, unlawfully, wilfully and knowingly combined, conspired, confederated and agreed unlawfully to use weapons of mass destruction, to wit, bombs, against nationals of the United States while such nationals would be outside the United States and against property that is owned, leased and used by the United States and by departments and agencies of the United States. 23. It was a part and an object of said conspiracy that the defendants, and others known and unknown, would and did: (i) bomb the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and employees of the American Government stationed at those embassies, and (ii) attack American military facilities in the Gulf region and the Horn of Africa, and members of the American military stationed in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere with bombs.

[Defender2]

#52. WOW , keep it coming, Ernest!!!!


FReegards, D2

[Defender2]

MEGA-PINGto post #52. This is a Mega Indictment made in 1998!!!! EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS INFO!!!!


THANKS, Ernest


Multi FREEgards

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

My eyes are going fuzzy on me, I'll work on this some more tomorrow. Not finding the reference to Iraq , perhaps another document.

[Defender2]

Thanks, Ernest, I think I'm going to crash also. will be posting some more this weekend as the gloves are definitely off now.

Very, Very Best FReegards to you and rest well,

Defender2 D2

:-)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

1;30...so much good stuff to read. But I have to quit.

[Defender2]

Catch up on some rest. I'll be posting again late tommorrow
evening. I'm going to catch a few ZZZZ's now too.:-)

FReegards, D2

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ping!

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the ping, friend.