Clinton first linked al Qaeda to Saddam

The Washington Times ^ | June 25th | Rowan Scarborough

[bstein80]

The Clinton administration talked about firm evidence linking Saddam Hussein's regime to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network years before President Bush made the same statements.

The issue arose again this month after the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States reported there was no "collaborative relationship" between the old Iraqi regime and bin Laden.

[bstein80]

I thought ya'll might want to pass this along to your Democrat friends who screech that Bush lied about an Iraq-al Qaeda connection.

[rwfromkansas]

bump

[Sans-Culotte]

Might want to pass it on to Algore as well...

[Recovering Hermit]

Might want to pass it on to Algore as well...

He's way too busy building Internet Version 2.

[gubamyster]

The Weekly Standard also does a good job of documenting the Clinton administration's links:

The Clinton Administration's Case Against Saddam

[cvq3842]

Thanks!

[federal]

He's way too busy building Internet Version 2.

I assume it will have a "Digital Brownshirt" filter.

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

The Clinton administration kept this information from us even though they were being criticized for bombing a pharmaceutical plant.

Remember there was high skepticism about the pharmaceutical plant as a military target.

[Recovering Hermit]

I assume it will have a "Digital Brownshirt" filter.

LOL! Undoubtedly.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this.

Mo1, peach, backhoe could one of your provide the link to this indictment.

Thanks!

[FourtySeven]

BB......bookmark bump.

[RetiredArmy]

This is from the conservative Washington Times. We know they just made it up to make Slick look bad!

[lilylangtree]

Have forwarded on. Thanks.

[Mixer]

More truth to silence the left with....thanks.

[Reactionary]

"I assume it will have a "Digital Brownshirt" filter."

Indeed. It's too bad, however, that liberals haven't yet invented a Digital Idiot filter for themselves.

[mastequilla]

It looks like we're engaged in a battle of semantics. What does it mean to be "linked"? What does it mean to have a "collaborative relationship"? If Saddam's govt. met with Al Qaeda but never agreed to work together what does that mean?

Does the U.S. have a collaborative relationship with terrorists since we have links to Saudi Arabia which has funded Al Qaeda?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

FoxNews was showing archive video of Gore in 1992 bitching that Bush Sr. wasn't doing enough against al-Qaeda, who was operating with in Iraq with their cooperation. Al Gore stepped into it big time and the attempted media blackout isn't working. The NYT was reporting this on their front page this morning, which is a huge happy surprise to me. Maybe they're starting to get the message.

[cgk]

ping.

[Peach]

Here is the link to the Clinton Justice Department indictment in federal court of Osama bin Laden which specifically mentions the terrorist's connections to Saddam (third paragraph from the end).

http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/98110402.htm

[mware]

LOL, Gore what a maroon.