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Amnesia - New York Times 1998: Bin Laden and Iraq Made a Deal; 2004: No Al Qaeda Iraq Connection
New York Times | November 5, 1998 | BENJAMIN WEISE

Posted on 06/18/2004 9:32:25 AM PDT by tallhappy

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To: tallhappy
That [characterization deleted] who gave us the Kosovo War, Richard Holbrooke, has been lying again, true to his partisan affiliation:
The Fog Of Invented Facts
by Edward Jay Epstein
The invented fact here is that Atta was on the CIA's watch list. Nor was he on any other government watch list prior to September 11th. Its repetition lays down a fog about the responsibility for the attack. For example, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, when lecturing at the JFK Library on Oct 4th, 2001, described the "law enforcement failure" of September 11th as follows:
"To understand how bad it was, you need look no further than the specific movements of Mohammed Atta, who was probably the mastermind of these attacks, all of which has now been in the newspapers. The CIA put him on the watch list of most wanted terrorists in the world sometime in the early summer or late spring of this year... It is clear, therefore, that the FBI. and the FAA. don't talk to each other, that the FBI. never gave the watch list names to leading American airlines"
Soooo, how is it that Holbrooke opposes the GWB moves (which were passed by both houses of Congress by huge majorities)? Because he's a lying liar, unlike the victims of Al Franken's latest POS.

Epstein is described as a liberal by William Safire, who cites his website. Epstein's writing is more commonly found on Slate (hardly a conservative publication), the NY Times, and other bastions of the partisans. The following piece appeared in the local paper here sometime after it was first published.
Missing Links Found
by William Safire
November 24, 2003
Remember how anti-liberation politicians and journalists pooh-poohed Colin Powell's February 2003 speech to the U.N. about the presence in Iraq of a Qaeda associate, identified in this space as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi? Powell's assertion had this "sensitive reporting" basis: "As of Oct. 2002 al Zarqawi was setting up sleeper cells in Baghdad to be activated in case of a U.S. occupation of the city." ...Feith's intelligence summary available to senators: "The Czech counterintelligence service reported that the Sept. 11 hijacker [Mohamed] Atta met with the former Iraqi intelligence chief in Prague, al Ani, on several occasions. During one of those meetings, al Ani ordered the IIS [Iraq Intelligence Service] finance officer to issue Atta funds from IIS financial holdings in the Prague office." ...Though the C.I.A. can confirm two Atta trips to Prague, in 1994 and 2000, it cannot confirm the two other visits the Czechs reported, including one on April 9, 2001, with Saddam's top European agent, al-Ani, then vice consul in Prague. C.I.A. chief George Tenet testified that the meeting reported by the Czech service was "possible," but the F.B.I. floated hints that car rental records showed Atta to be traveling between Virginia and Florida that week. Enter the writer Edward Jay Epstein in the liberal online journal Slate: "All these reports attributed to the FBI were, as it turns out, erroneous. There were no car rental records in Virginia, Florida, or anywhere else in April 2001 for Mohamed Atta, since he had not yet obtained his Florida license." You cannot rent a car without a driver's license.

21 posted on 06/18/2004 9:55:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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To: tallhappy
Discussion over here also:

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

22 posted on 06/18/2004 9:55:58 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: tallhappy
Good work!!!

Think they will pull this article (here) from their site?

23 posted on 06/18/2004 9:57:11 AM PDT by lysie (Accumulating FRequent FReeper miles.)
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To: tallhappy; Peach; Mo1; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Ragtime Cowgirl; SheLion; PhiKapMom; backhoe; ...

This is a great find and post by tallhappy!


24 posted on 06/18/2004 9:57:46 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( J.F.K. STANDS FOR: (JIHAD FOR KERRY!))
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To: jimbo123
NY Times Editorial Fraud investigation department: retrace@nytimes.com

Yeah, maybe the New York Times will investigate itself and bust this case wide open!
Just like Janet Reno did on all of those Clinton scandals!

 
 
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25 posted on 06/18/2004 9:58:15 AM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.freepgs.com/counterpunch)
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To: BlessedByLiberty
"Thanks for posting this. Am gathering all of these together to send some liberal relatives and friends. Combined with the Putin statement, the Old Media has some explaining to do."

Can you please email to me privately?

26 posted on 06/18/2004 9:59:22 AM PDT by paulsy
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To: tallhappy

We all know that the NY Times has an agenda. They aren't journalists, they are propagandists.


27 posted on 06/18/2004 10:01:22 AM PDT by MEGoody (Kerry - isn't that a girl's name? (Conan O'Brian))
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To: tallhappy

I heard a man being interviewed yesterday by Larry Elder who mentioned this same info about the Iraqi-Osama agreement.


28 posted on 06/18/2004 10:01:32 AM PDT by Feiny (I can resist anything but temptation.)
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To: Peach

Rock on!

I'll tell you, if every Freeper would do two hours of research a week browsing through that vast land of Liberal-Media-Past, we would have tons of ammunition. Almost too much to fathom, I reckon.

I think I need to get off my butt and do as such.


29 posted on 06/18/2004 10:03:25 AM PDT by torchthemummy (Florida 2000: There Would Have Been No 5-4 Without A 7-2)
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To: tallhappy; Mo1; Grampa Dave; Defender2; Alamo-Girl; NormsRevenge; Dog; Peach; Howlin; McGavin999; ..
Both indictments offer new information about Mr. bin Laden's operations, including one deal he is said to have struck with Iraq to cooperate in the development of weapons in return for Mr. bin Laden's agreeing not to work against that country.

That detail seems to be in an 8 page indictment rather than the 157 page indictment. (as near as I can tell!)

The 8 page indictment is here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/1998/11/indict1.pdf

Go to page 3 .. Number 4

Mo1 found this one.

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The phrase in the document is a two-bagger.
It references both Iran and Iraq!!!!

30 posted on 06/18/2004 10:05:31 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: Grampa Dave

ROFL!!!


31 posted on 06/18/2004 10:07:00 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: tallhappy
Time to again post my all-time favorite Ann Coulter quote:

Liberals simply can't grasp the problem Lexis-Nexis poses to their incessant lying.

32 posted on 06/18/2004 10:07:42 AM PDT by jackbill
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To: torchthemummy

Just share what we find with your e-mail friends.

They will share with their friends.

This is the power we have over the media.


33 posted on 06/18/2004 10:08:08 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: tallhappy

Outstanding, will have to check out the indictment.


34 posted on 06/18/2004 10:08:37 AM PDT by Made In The USA (REMEMBER NICK BERG.)
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To: MEGoody
We all know that the NY Times has an agenda. They aren't journalists, they are propagandists.

BINGO

35 posted on 06/18/2004 10:09:03 AM PDT by Mo1 (That's right Old Media .... PRESIDENT BUSH IS A LEADER!)
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To: Mo1

I swear I was about to email Rush - he is reading the article right now.

Wow!!!!!

Think he's a Freeper?


36 posted on 06/18/2004 10:10:10 AM PDT by torchthemummy (Florida 2000: There Would Have Been No 5-4 Without A 7-2)
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To: tallhappy

Great find. Rush is reading this article now!


37 posted on 06/18/2004 10:10:10 AM PDT by pgkdan
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To: torchthemummy
Think he's a Freeper?

If not .. I'll bet someone on his staff is

38 posted on 06/18/2004 10:12:15 AM PDT by Mo1 (That's right Old Media .... PRESIDENT BUSH IS A LEADER!)
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To: All

on Rush now!


39 posted on 06/18/2004 10:12:36 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: torchthemummy

Someone on his staff regularly reads FR, that's for certain. He will often pick up the really devastating stories published here, very soon after they hit the forum.


40 posted on 06/18/2004 10:13:34 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The New York Times: All the Lies that Fit the Socialist Agenda)
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