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Nets Pounce on No bin Laden-Saddam Link, But Bush Believed Media
Media Research Center ^ | Thursday June 17, 2004 | staff

Posted on 06/17/2004 9:41:40 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach


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

 
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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.”


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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedaandiraq; binladen; mediabias; mrc; osama; saddam
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To: been_lurking

Dittos! The damage by the elite NY press has been done.

It matters not what Bush says or does, it never has.

It matters not what the Kerry/UN/Soros ticket says or does, nor did it matter what Clinton or Gore said or did, the enemy has never been the Dems, but the elites in NY media and Hollywood.

They have been in charge of our culture and politics for 40 years.

Public officials are afraid of them, as are CEO's, sports figures, and anyone who does not follow their "speech codes".

They smear at will, they destroy reputations, and lifetimes of work of individuals, they decide who gets awards, recognitions, and notice. They mock our history, religion, and family life.

They write our history books, and have taken over all institutions of learning and our judiciary.

They are a menace, and must be discredited and distroyed.

Rush and the internet are NOT our saviors.

This has been my constant rant for the last 10 years.


81 posted on 06/18/2004 8:08:41 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: EQAndyBuzz
An outstanding letter and a terrific tagline.
82 posted on 06/18/2004 8:17:03 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Grampa Dave; Peach
*L* .. Gosh I love doing research

Check it out .. even NPR did a report on their station and mentioned the connect with iran and Iraq

It will take a few seconds to load up .. but scroll down to where it says

OSAMA BIN LADEN INDICTED NPR's Mike Shuster reports a federal grand jury has indicted Osama bin Laden and five others for this summer's embassy bombings in Africa

83 posted on 06/18/2004 8:18:57 AM PDT by Mo1 (That's right Old Media .... WE LOVED PRESIDENT REAGAN)
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To: Mo1

Please ping Backhoe, peach and race bannon so that they can include this in their indexes.

Great Work.

al Querry is sorry that al Ghorroid invented the internet!

The internet, Free Republic and Freepers will be the end of the power of left wing mediots. Their days of lying, spinning, revision of history and spiking news like this are over.


84 posted on 06/18/2004 8:31:28 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( J.F.K. STANDS FOR: (JIHAD FOR KERRY!))
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To: Grampa Dave; backhoe; Peach; RaceBannon
Please ping Backhoe, peach and race bannon so that they can include this in their indexes.

Sure thing

Hey Y'all ... just a little info for your files on this thread

85 posted on 06/18/2004 8:33:38 AM PDT by Mo1 (That's right Old Media .... PRESIDENT BUSH IS A LEADER!)
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To: All

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,314700,00.html

Saddam link to Bin Laden
Terror chief 'offered asylum' in Iraq? US says dealings step up danger of chemical weapons attacks

By Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday February 6, 1999
The Guardian

Saddam Hussein's regime has opened talks with Osama bin Laden, bringing closer the threat of a terrorist attack using chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, according to US intelligence sources and Iraqi opposition officials.

The key meeting took place in the Afghan mountains near Kandahar in late December. The Iraqi delegation was led by Farouk Hijazi, Baghdad's ambassador in Turkey and one of Saddam's most powerful secret policemen, who is thought to have offered Bin Laden asylum in Iraq.

The Saudi-born fundamentalist's response is unknown. He is thought to have rejected earlier Iraqi advances, disapproving of the Saddam Hussein's secular Baathist regime. But analysts believe that Bin Laden's bolthole in Afghanistan, where he has lived for the past three years, is now in doubt as a result of increasing US and Saudi government pressure.

News of the negotiations emerged in a week when the US attorney general, Janet Reno, warned the Senate that a terrorist attack involving weapons of mass destruction was a growing concern. "There's a threat, and it's real," Ms Reno said, adding that such weapons "are being considered for use."

US embassies around the world are on heightened alert as a result of threats believed to emanate from followers of Bin Laden, who has been indicted by a US court for orchestrating the bombing last August of embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which 259 people died. US delegations in Africa and the Gulf have been shut down in recent weeks after credible threats were received.

In this year's budget, President Clinton called for an additional $2 billion to spend on counter-terrorist measures, including extra guards for US embassies around the world and funds for executive jets to fly rapid response investigative teams to terrorist incidents around the world.

Since RAF bombers took part in air raids on Iraq in December, Bin Laden declared that he considered British citizens to be justifiable targets. Vincent Cannistraro, former chief of CIA counter-terrorist operations, said: "Hijazi went to Afghanistan in December and met with Osama, with the knowledge of the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar. We are sure about that. What is the source of some speculation is what transpired."

An acting US counter-intelligence official confirmed the report. "Our understanding over what happened matches your account, but there's no one here who is going to comment on it."

Ahmed Allawi, a senior member of the opposition Iraqi National Congress (INC), based in London, said he had heard reports of the December meeting which he believed to be accurate. "There is a long history of contacts between Mukhabarat [Iraqi secret service] and Osama bin Laden," he said. Mr Hijazi, formerly director of external operations for Iraqi intelligence, was "the perfect man to send to Afghanistan".

Analysts believe that Mr Hijazi offered Mr bin Laden asylum in Iraq, most likely in return for co-operation in launching attacks on US and Saudi targets. Iraqi agents are believed to have made a similar offer to the Saudi maverick leader in the early 1990s when he was based in Sudan.

Although he rejected the offer then, Mamoun Fandy, a professor of Middle East politics at Georgetown University, said Bin Laden's position in Afghanistan is no longer secure after the Saudi monarchy cut off diplomatic relations with, and funding for, the Taleban militia movement, which controls most of the country.

Mr Fandy said senior members of the Saudi royal family told him in recent weeks that they had received assurances from the Taleban leader, Mullah Mohamed Omar, that once the radical Islamist movement secured control over Afghan territory, Bin Laden would be forced to leave. "It's a matter of time now for Osama." He said Bin Laden would have a strong ideological aversion to accepting Iraqi hospitality, but might have little choice.


86 posted on 06/18/2004 8:43:05 AM PDT by Mo1 (That's right Old Media .... PRESIDENT BUSH IS A LEADER!)
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To: Peach

Thanks!! It was posted in #36 above... FReepers are amazing, I tell you!


87 posted on 06/18/2004 8:44:08 AM PDT by cgk
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To: Mo1

THANK YOU!!!


88 posted on 06/18/2004 8:44:55 AM PDT by cgk
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Jamie Gorelick is a lightweight and has really stepped in it this time.


89 posted on 06/18/2004 8:48:30 AM PDT by ez (TERRORISTS FOR KERRY!!!)
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To: cgk
Tape Shows General Clark Linking Iraq and Al Qaeda

"Certainly there's a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda," he said in 2002. "It doesn't surprise me at all that they would be talking to Al Qaeda, that there would be some Al Qaeda there or that Saddam Hussein might even be, you know, discussing gee, I wonder since I don't have any scuds and since the Americans are coming at me, I wonder if I could take advantage of Al Qaeda? How would I do it? Is it worth the risk? What could they do for me?"

90 posted on 06/18/2004 8:52:17 AM PDT by Mo1 (That's right Old Media .... PRESIDENT BUSH IS A LEADER!)
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To: Mo1; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I guess the NYT posted that example of a Dem "flip-flopping" so they could keep up the work for their pick for pres: the ultimate waffle John f'n Kerry ;)

Just another example of what happens when a Dem doesn't want for something, and doesn't have to think before they talk.


91 posted on 06/18/2004 9:02:02 AM PDT by cgk
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

LOLOL! It was quite late and I was tired.


92 posted on 06/18/2004 9:12:48 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Defender2

Volley bump and hug!


93 posted on 06/18/2004 9:16:53 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Mo1

Not having any luck with that one.

Realplayer said he needed new software so he automagically downloaded that but the link to the NPR file timed out.

Hmmm?


94 posted on 06/18/2004 9:27:35 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Mo1

That reference nails it!

Strange document, can't capture it anyway I know about using adobe.

Got to talk to my son who works with adobe documents all the time.


95 posted on 06/18/2004 9:32:04 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks! Rush is whacking the bejeesus out of the media..

MegaDiTToes!!!

96 posted on 06/18/2004 9:37:56 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi Mac ... Become a FR Monthly Donor ... In Memoriam Ronaldus Magnus)
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To: Mo1
Did ya read the part about seeking to find uranium ???

YES!

And all Clinton did was waste some cruise missiles on camels and tents!

97 posted on 06/18/2004 9:38:30 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

GREAT!


98 posted on 06/18/2004 9:39:12 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Alamo-Girl

OK, I was wearing out too!


99 posted on 06/18/2004 9:40:21 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: roses of sharon; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp
This has been my constant rant for the last 10 years.

Dust off some of those old rants, and add me to your audience. We will set up an awards board and give out prizes for excellence in ranting. pinging some other rantmeisters...

100 posted on 06/18/2004 9:50:17 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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