***FREEPER EXCLUSIVE*** Let the PJBrigade Help Kerry Connect the Dots . . . between Osama and Saddam

Archive-News.net ^ | September 26, 2004 | christie / TwoStep

[christie]

I'm getting a bit tired of John Kerry and the MSM continuing to insist that Saddam Hussein has "nothing to do with al Qaeda." They are wrong.

"The invasion of Iraq was a profound diversion from the battle against our greatest enemy, al Qaeda." --John Kerry (Sept. 24-04)

They connected the dots in 1998 but Senator Kerry and MSM can't seem to connect the dots in 2004.

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So, the Free Republic PJ Brigade has come to the rescue. Here is an easy to read chart, citing plenty of evidence of the links between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein; links between Iraq and al Qaeda.

This chart will be archived at my web site: http://www.archive-news.net/Articles/SH040923.html. I will be making the additions there, so you might want to bookmark the site.

Connect the Dots . . .
Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden

Date	Article	Source	Extract
Pre-911	X	X	X
November 4, 1998	Press Release on the Indictment of Bin Laden and Atef Indicted for bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya, Tanzania	U.S. State Department International Information Programs	MARY JO WHITE, the United States Attorney - for the Southern District of New York, and LEWIS D. SCHILIRO, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York FBI Office, announced that USAMA BIN LADEN and MUHAMMAD ATEF, a/k/a "Abu Hafs," were indicted today in Manhattan federal court for the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and for conspiring to kill American nationals outside of the United States. The United States Department of State also announced today rewards of up to $5 million each for information leading to the arrest or conviction of BIN LADEN and ATEF.
November 4, 1998	USA v. Bin Laden - Docket 6 November 1998 (all al Qaeda Files)	U.S. District Court	CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 98-CR-539-ALL USA v. Bin Laden, Filed: 11/04/98
February 6, 1999	Saddam link to Bin Laden	The Guardian (UK) by Julian Borger	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.
February 6, 1999	The Western nightmare: Saddam and Bin Laden versus the world	The Guardian (UK) by Julian Borger and Ian Black	But the most wanted man in the West may be at his most dangerous when cornered. And the increased pressure makes the prospect of a Saddam Hussein-Osama bin Laden alliance, once an improbable marriage of opposites, seem a more credible threat. The Saudi royal family, presumably stirred into action by last year's bloodbaths in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, have closed down a number of Mr Bin Laden's front charities, and have been tightening the screws on their erstwhile Taliban clients, whose 'embassy' in Riyadh was closed down in September.
February 10, 1999	Osama bin Ladin and Iraq	Iraq News by Laurie Mylroie	When US officials were obliged to defend their decision to attack the al-Shifa plant, after the Aug 20 strike, they revealed an Iraqi link to al-Shifa, as reported, for example, in the NYT Aug 25. US officials al-Shifa, as reported, for example, in the NYT Aug 25. US officials also revealed the existence of other sites in Khartoum thought to be associated with Iraq and VX production. Clinton chose al-Shifa as a target, because it was the only VX-related site not near a populated area.
February 13, 1999	Bin Laden reportedly leaves Afghanistan, whereabouts unknown	CNN.com	Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has offered asylum to bin Laden, who openly supports Iraq against the Western powers. Despite repeated demands from Washington, the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden after the August 7 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, demanding proof of his involvement in terrorist activities.
December 28, 1999	Iraq Tempts Bin Laden To Attack West	The Herald (UK) by Ian Bruce	The world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, has been offered sanctuary in Iraq if his worldwide terrorist network succeeds in carrying out a campaign of high-profile attacks on the West over the next few weeks. Intelligence sources say the Saudi dissident believed responsible for the bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and a US military barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1998, is running out of options for a safe haven. He is now thought to have overcome his initial rejection of Saddam Hussein, whom he regarded as an exploiter of the Islamic cause rather than a true believer, and is considering the offer of a bolt-hole from which he can continue to mastermind terrorism on a global scale.
October 19, 2000	Iraq-Bin Laden boat bomb link	The Guardian by Julian Borger	Investigators in Yemen yesterday uncovered evidence suggesting the bomb attack on the warship USS Cole had been a meticulously organised conspiracy, which a leading US terrorism expert said may have been the first joint operation between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Under an overcast sky at the Norfolk naval base in Virginia, President Clinton led thousands of US servicemen in mourning the 17 victims of last week's blast, as the state department warned that more attacks against US citizens could be on the way in the Middle East or Turkey.
June 2001	Iraqi Complicity in the World Trade Center Bombing and Beyond	Middle East Intelligence Bulletin by Laurie Mylroie	On February 26, 1993, a massive bomb exploded in the parking garage of the north tower of the World Trade Center building in New York City, killing six people and leaving a crater six stories deep in the building's basement floors. The mastermind of the bombing, Ramzi Yousef, later boasted that he had hoped to kill 250,000 people. Two years later, Yousef was involved in a plot to bomb a dozen US airplanes flying over the Pacific. Yousef's bombing plots gave rise to the notion that a new form of international terrorism had emerged that was not state-sponsored, but said to consist of "loose networks" of militant Muslims, not backed by states. Yet, as The Washington Post recently noted, "some critics have disputed this approach, contending that rogue nations like Iraq have managed to slip intelligence operatives in and out of bomb conspiracies, leaving the FBI to chase and catch the small fish that the skilled men left behind."
July 21, 2001	"American, an Obsession called Osama Bin Ladin" referenced in Saddam Warned of WTC Attack Before 9/11, Praised Bin Laden Afterwards by Carl Limbacher, NewsMax, March 29, 2004	Al-Nasiriya (state-controlled Iraqi newspaper) by Naeem Abd Muhalhal	In the piece, Baath Party writer Naeem Abd Muhalhal predicted that bin Laden would attack the US “with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House.” The same state-approved column also insisted that bin Laden “will strike America on the arm that is already hurting,” and that the US “will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs” – an apparent reference to the Sinatra classic, “New York, New York”.
August 1, 2001	Osama bin Laden to lead Taliban military operations	Pravda online	Citing high-ranking Afghan sources, the Pakistani newspaper, Nation, has reported that the Taliban have appointed two international terrorists, Osama bin Laden and Juma Namangani, to lead military operations against the Northern Alliance. According to the paper's information, the Taliban leadership has de facto appointed terrorist no.1, bin Laden, as defence minister. He is currently organising offensives from his secret hide-out. Another terrorist, the Uzbek Juma Namangani, has become bin Laden's assistant, carrying out his orders on the northern front. In the paper's opinion, the new appointments will increase the role of Arab, Pakistani and other foreign mercenaries fighting for the Taliban and could lead to new groups of religious fanatics entering Afghanistan. According to Nation's information, up to 60,000 foreign mercenaries are now fighting for the Taliban.
Post-911	X	X	X
September 13, 2001	The Iraqi Connection Did Osama bin Laden act alone? Not likely.	WSJ.com Opinion Journal by Laurie Mylroie	Following the "resolution" of the second crisis, in late February 1998, through the mediation of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, bin Laden began to issue a series of bloody-minded threats against Americans. Soon Baghdad was issuing its own threats, asserting that its proscribed weapons of mass destruction had been eliminated and demanding that sanctions be lifted. The threats issued by bin Laden, the threats issued by Iraq, and the preparations for the bombing all moved in virtual lockstep. On Aug. 3, 1998, Unscom chairman Richard Butler arrived in Baghdad. The Iraqis demanded that he declare Iraq in compliance or leave immediately. Mr. Butler departed the next day. The following day, Aug. 5, Baghdad declared "suspension day"--that is, the suspension of weapons inspections. It restated its previous threats, affirming, "To those against whom war is made, permission is given to fight."
September 19, 2001	Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view	Jane's	The Iraqis, who for several years paid smaller groups to do their dirty work, were quick to discover the advantages of Al-Qaeda. The Israeli sources claim that for the past two years Iraqi intelligence officers were shuttling between Baghdad and Afghanistan, meeting with Ayman Al Zawahiri. According to the sources, one of the Iraqi intelligence officers, Salah Suleiman, was captured last October by the Pakistanis near the border with Afghanistan. The Iraqis are also reported to have established strong ties with Imad Mughniyeh. "... One of our indications suggested that Imad Mughniyeh met with some of his dormant agents on secret trips to Germany. We believe that the operational brains behind the New-York attack were Mughniyeh and Zawahiri, who were probably financed and got some logistical support from the Iraqi Intelligence Service (SSO)." Mughniyeh was the only one believed to have tried it before. On April 12th 1997, he was reported to be only two hours away from achieving the highest goal of any terrorist organisation (until last week): blowing up an Israeli El-Al airliner above Tel Aviv.
September 23, 2001	Alert by Saddam points to Iraq	The Telegraph (UK) by Jessica Berry in Jerusalem, Philip Sherwell and David Wastell in Washington	SADDAM HUSSEIN put his troops on their highest military alert since the Gulf war two weeks before the suicide attacks on America in the strongest indication yet that the Iraqi dictator knew an atrocity was planned. Since the attacks, The Telegraph has learnt that the Iraqi leader had been providing al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, with funding, logistical back-up and advanced weapons training. His operations reached a "frantic pace" in the past few months, according to Western intelligence officials.
October 18, 2001.	Gunning for Saddam Interview with Laurie Mylroie	Frontline - PBS.org	The reason that the Clinton administration did not want the evidence of Iraqi involvement coming out in the Trade Center bombing was because, in June of 1993, Clinton had attacked Iraqi intelligence headquarters. It was for the attempt to kill George Bush. But Clinton also believed that that attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters would take care of the bombing in New York, that it would deter Iraq from all future acts of terrorism. And by not telling the public what was suspected of happening -- that New York FBI really believed Iraq was behind the Trade Center bombing -- Clinton avoided raising the possibility the public might demand that the United States do a lot more than just bomb one building. And Clinton didn't want to do more. Clinton wanted to focus on domestic politics, including health policy.
October 2001	Mounting Evidence of Iraqi Link to Terror Attacks	Middle East Intelligence Bulletin by Ziad K. Abdelnour	According to the London-based Iraqi National Congress (INC), Hijazi and Brigadier-General Habib Ma'amouri reportedly developed plans for hijacking civilian airliners and crashing them into civilian targets during the mid-1990s at the GID Special Operations Branch in Salman Pak, south of Baghdad. Two Iraqi defectors have corroborated this claim. A former Iraqi military officer, Sabah Khalifa Khodada Alami, said he was in charge of training an elite special forces team, "designed to plan and conduct operations against US and British interests around the world," at Salman Pak. Using a Boeing 707 parked inside the complex, Alami's team practiced hijacking planes without weapons. He also said that another team of non-Iraqis underwent similar training at the same camp. A second defector gave a similar description of the camp, and recounted meeting some of the non-Iraqi trainees, whom he described as deeply religious, when a group of five Saudis and an Egyptian helped him move his car and jump-start the engine.
April 21, 2002	Saddam 'sends troops to help bin Laden men'	The Telegraph (UK) by Sarah Latham	The strongest evidence of links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden has emerged with reports that the Iraqi dictator is supporting former al-Qa'eda fighters who have established a Taliban-style enclave in Kurdistan. Members of Saddam's Republican Guard have been seen in two villages run by militants from Ansar al-Islam inside Iraqi Kurdistan, an area which is otherwise controlled by anti-Saddam factions.
August 25, 2002	Saddam killed Abu Nidal over al-Qa'eda row	The Telegraph (UK) by By Con Coughlin	Abu Nidal, the Palestinian terrorist, was murdered on the orders of Saddam Hussein after refusing to train al-Qa'eda fighters based in Iraq, The Telegraph can reveal. Despite claims by Iraqi officials that Abu Nidal committed suicide after being implicated in a plot to overthrow Saddam, Western diplomats now believe that he was killed for refusing to reactivate his international terrorist network.
September 4, 2002	11 September victims sue Iraq	BBC News (UK)	Victims and relatives of victims of the 11 September tragedy are suing Iraq and its leader Saddam Hussein for their alleged role in the attacks on the United States. Two lawsuits are being filed by 1,400 plaintiffs in a Manhattan federal court to demand a total of more than $1,000bn from Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network and the former Taleban rulers in Afghanistan.
September 5, 2002	Lawsuit: Iraq Involved In 9/11 Conspiracy	CBS News.com	Over a thousand victims and family members of those who died in the Sept. 11 attacks sued Iraq and its leader Saddam Hussein Wednesday alleging there is evidence of a conspiracy with Osama bin Laden to attack the United States. The lawsuit alleges that Iraqi officials were aware, before Sept. 11, of plans by bin Laden to attack New York and the Pentagon
September 12, 2002	Homeland Security Act of 2002	USCG.mil	Mr. WARNER: It is interesting, against his speech is the background of another President, President Clinton, who on February 19, 1998, referring to his own perspective on terrorism, said, referring to the terrorists: "They actually take advantage of the freer movement of people, information and ideas, and they will be all the more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. We simply cannot allow this to happen. There is no more clear example of this threat than Saddam Hussein's Iraq. His regime threatens the safety of his people, the stability of the region, and the security of all the rest of us."
May 12, 2003	The Al Qaeda Connection: Saddam's links to Osama were no secret.	The Weekly Standard by Stephen F. Hayes	Babil, the official newspaper of Saddam Hussein's government, run by his oldest son Uday, last fall published information that appears to confirm U.S. allegations of links between the Iraqi regime and al Qaeda. It adds one more piece to the small pile of evidence emerging from Iraq that, when added to the jigsaw puzzle we already had, makes obsolete the question of whether Saddam and Osama bin Laden were in league and leaves in doubt only the extent of the connection
March 19, 2003	WND stories on al-Qaida-Iraq link	WorldNetDaily various	Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, as well as financial and logistical support, and may have included the bombing of the USS Cole and the Sept. 11 attacks. That's the assessment of a 16-page top secret government memo to the Senate Intelligence Committee, reports the Weekly Standard.
June 25, 2003	Document links Saddam, bin Laden	The Tennessean by Gilbert S Merritt	Federal appellate Judge Gilbert S. Merritt of Nashville is in Iraq as one of 13 experts selected by the U.S. Justice Department to help rebuild Iraq's judicial system. "Through an unusual set of circumstances, I have been given documentary evidence of the names and positions of the 600 closest people in Iraq to Saddam Hussein, as well as his ongoing relationship with Osama bin Laden."
July 11, 2003	The Al Qaeda Connection, cont.: More reason to suspect that bin Laden and Saddam may have been in league.	The Weekly Standard by Stephen F. Hayes	Former Navy Secretary John Lehman, a member of the congressional commission investigating the September 11 attacks, added to the intrigue this week when he flatly declared, "there is evidence" of Iraq-al Qaeda links. Lehman has access to classified intelligence as a member of the commission, intelligence that has convinced him the links may have been even greater than the public pronouncements of the Bush administration might suggest. "There is no doubt in my mind that [Iraq] trained them in how to prepare and deliver anthrax and to use terror weapons."
July 13, 2003	Bin Laden and Iraq	FrontPageMagazine.com by Anonymous	Sourced quotes from the following journals (no online links): The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), December 28, 1999U.S. Newswire, December 23, 1999 The Observer. December 19, 1999 United Press International. November 3, 1999 Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio). October 31, 1999 The Kansas City Star. March 2, 1999 ... He (bin Laden) has a private fortune ranging from $250 million to $500 million and is said to be cultivating a new alliance with Iraq's Saddam Hussein, who has biological and chemical weapons bin Laden would not hesitate to use. An alliance between bin Laden and Saddam Hussein could be deadly. Both men are united in their hatred for the United States and any country friendly to the United States.... Los Angeles Times. February 23, 1999 National Public Radio (NPR), February 18, 1999 Agence France Presse. February 17, 1999 Deutsche Presse-Agentur. February 17, 1999 Associated Press Worldstream. February 14, 1999 San Jose Mercury News (California). February 14, 1999 United Press International. January 3, 1999
September 1, 2003	'Losing bin Laden'	Townhall.com by Robert Novak	On Oct. 12, 2000, the day of the devastating terrorist attack on the USS Cole, President Clinton's highest-level national security team met to determine what to do. Counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke wanted to hit Afghanistan, aiming at Osama bin Laden's complex and the terrorist leader himself. But Clarke was all alone. There was no support for a retaliatory strike that, if successful, might have prevented the 9/11 carnage. This startling story is told for the first time in a book by Brussels-based investigative reporter Richard Miniter to be published this week. Losing bin Laden relates that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Secretary of Defense William Cohen, Atty. Gen. Janet Reno and CIA Director George Tenet all said no to the attack.
September 19, 2003	No Question About It: Saddam and the terrorists	National Review Online by James S. Robbins	But the premise is facile. The principle that drove Iraq and al Qaeda together is one of the oldest in international-relations theory — the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The motive for their alliance was a common hatred for the United States and Israel. Saddam Hussein showed no reluctance to support terrorism per se during his career. The fact that he gave money to the families of Palestinian suicide terrorists and had a close working relationship with the PLO was well known, and something he admitted. The Iraqi regime maintained a terrorist training camp at Salman Pak near Baghdad where foreign terrorists were instructed in methods of taking over commercial aircraft using weapons no more sophisticated than knives (interesting thought that). Saddam also harbored Abu Nidal and other members of his international terror organization (ANO) in Baghdad.
September 22, 2003	Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's Account Links 9/11 to '93 WTC Attack	NewsMax.com by Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff	According to a report Sunday by the Associated Press, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed "told his interrogators he had worked in 1994 and 1995 in the Philippines with Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah on the foiled Bojinka plot to blow up 12 Western airliners simultaneously in Asia." Yousef, of course, was the man who plotted and executed the failed 1993 World Trade Center bombing, who entered the U.S. on an Iraqi passport the year before and whose partner in the plot, Abdul Rahman Yasin, was granted sanctuary by Saddam Hussein after the attack. Yasin is still at large. Unmentioned by the AP, Mohammed's account of meetings with Yousef has been corroborated by Yousef's Bojinka partner, Abdul Hakim Murad. After his capture in 1995, Murad told the FBI that he and Yousef were contacted by Mohammed repeatedly during their time in the Philippines. Murad's FBI 302 witness statements detailing the contacts are reprinted in the new book "1000 Years for Revenge," by investigative reporter Peter Lance.
December 29, 2003	The Clinton View of Iraq-al Qaeda Ties Connecting the dots in 1998, but not in 2003.	The Weekly Standard by Stephen F. Hayes	Are al Qaeda's links to Saddam Hussein's Iraq just a fantasy of the Bush administration? Hardly. The Clinton administration also warned the American public about those ties and defended its response to al Qaeda terror by citing an Iraqi connection. For nearly two years, starting in 1996, the CIA monitored the al Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan. The plant was known to have deep connections to Sudan's Military Industrial Corporation, and the CIA had gathered intelligence on the budding relationship between Iraqi chemical weapons experts and the plant's top officials. The intelligence included information that several top chemical weapons specialists from Iraq had attended ceremonies to celebrate the plant's opening in 1996. And, more compelling, the National Security Agency had intercepted telephone calls between Iraqi scientists and the plant's general manager.
February 22, 2004	Ghost Wars : The CIA and Osama bin Laden, 1997-1999 A Secret Hunt Unravels in Afghanistan Mission to Capture or Kill al Qaeda Leader Frustrated by Near Misses, Political Disputes	Washington Post by Steve Coll	As bin Laden's bloodcurdling televised threats against Americans increased in number and menace during 1997, the CIA -- with approval from Clinton's White House -- turned from just watching bin Laden toward making plans to capture him. At Langley, CIA officers sometimes saw the Clinton cabinet as overly cautious, obsessed with legalities and unwilling to take political risks in Afghanistan by arming bin Laden's Afghan enemies and directly confronting the radical Taliban Islamic militia. But at the Clinton White House, senior policymakers and counterterrorism analysts sometimes saw the CIA's efforts in Afghanistan as timid, naïve, self-protecting and ineffective.
April 27, 2004	The proof that Saddam worked with bin Laden	The Telegraph by Inigo Gilmore	Iraqi intelligence documents discovered in Baghdad by The Telegraph have provided the first evidence of a direct link between Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'eda terrorist network and Saddam Hussein's regime. Property Classified Papers found yesterday in the bombed headquarters of the Mukhabarat, Iraq's intelligence service, reveal that an al-Qa'eda envoy was invited clandestinely to Baghdad in March 1998.
June 23, 2004	The Connection Interview with Stephen F. Hayes, the author of The Connection: How al-Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America	FrontPageMagazine.com by Jamie Glazov	In late 1998, according to U.S. intelligence documents and numerous reports in the media, Saddam dispatched Faruz Hijazi, a top intelligence officer and longtime al Qaeda liaison, to Afghanistan to offer Osama bin Laden safe haven in Iraq. Saddam was continuing his policy of denying UN inspectors access to sensitive sites. The inspectors left Iraq and a 70-hour bombing campaign – Desert Fox – ensued. Meanwhile, just five months after the simultaneous al Qaeda bombing of U.S. embassies in East Africa, the Taliban was receiving intense pressure from the West to expel bin Laden. The overture sparked widespread news media coverage of the possibility that, as you say, our two most dangerous foes could be collaborating against us.
September 22, 2004	Saddam and Osama Bin Laden Worked Together for Over a Decade	Free Republic posted by Peach	Numerous links to articles as well as valuable articles or excerpts from articles that have expired links. Wealth of information, but quite a maze.
September 23, 2004	Making the Case: For War Against Iraq	The Federal Observer by Barbara Stanley	I have heard many in the media and elsewhere (as in the recent antiwar march in D.C. that was sponsored by the Communists Workers World Party, the founders of the International A.N.S.W.E.R., comrades and good friends of N. Korea) claim Bush hasn’t made the case for war against Iraq. I have recently been given the research that makes the case, in no uncertain terms, once and for all, tying Iraq directly to the terrorists who threaten us all. Herewith, the facts, for any who would just read them, for to be informed is to be able to pass this intel around to others. At the end of this piece, there is a direct connection, also, with the Venezuelan Chavez government (Fidel Castro’s close ally and friend) and this, I believe, should sound the alarm. The Chinese communists now control both ends of the Panama Canal and this bodes ill for the land-route coming up to our southern border. Considering the Chinese Communists were instrumental in arming the Taliban in Afghanistan, their involvement, especially now with the N. Korean nukes, brings a dangerous note to the current world situation.

Books

Yossef Bodansky, The Secret History of the Iraq War (Regan Books, 2004)

Jayna Davis, The Third Terrorist

Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection: How al-Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America

Peter Lance, 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI, the Untold Story

John Miller,Michael Stone, and Chris Mitchell, The Cell

Laurie Mylroie, The War Against America: Saddam Hussein's and the World Trade Center Attacks, A Study of Revenge (Regan Books, 2001)

Video

The Man Who Knew

[votelife]

bookmarked.

[landerwy]

Thanks! Misty, have you seen this?

[M Kehoe]

Good work.

5.56mm

[Mockingbird For Short]

Christie, thanks so much. Excellent!

[Major_Risktaker]

Great work!
This story below is enough for me to go in and take him out.

Saddam stokes war with suicide bomber cash!
March 26 2002

The hall was packed and the intake of breath was audible as a special announcement was made to the war widows of the West Bank.

Saddam Hussein would pay $US25,000 ($47,000) to the family of each suicide bomber as an enticement for others to volunteer for martyrdom in the name of the Palestinian people.

[MistyCA]

Yes, I saw this! Thanks!

[MistyCA]

Awesome! Thanks!

[Tamzee]

This article is a favorite of mine.... the left finds it difficult to argue with Salon.com. They tried to make Bush look bad for going after bin Laden after 9/11 and suggested Saddam was behind the attack instead ;-)



http://dir.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/21/iraq/index.html?pn=1

A Saddam connection?

While the world focuses on Osama bin Laden, some experts argue that Iraq was a likely conspirator.

By David Neiwert
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September 21, 2001 | Even as the Bush administration and the national media focus almost exclusively on Osama bin Laden as the seemingly preordained "prime suspect" in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, evidence is beginning to emerge that a more familiar enemy may also have been involved in the devastation: Saddam Hussein's Iraq.


(snipped... excellent quotes and information throughout... )

[RaceBannon]

Iraq’s State Sponsorship of Osama bin-Laden and the al-Qaeda Terror Network
1999 Article: Iraq tempts bin Laden to attack West

Al-Qaeda Big Confirms Terror Ties to Iraq

White House Says it Has Evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties

The Iraq Connection: Was Saddam involved in Oklahoma City and the first WTC bombing?
World Trade Center Attack Complaint (Iraq named as plaintiff)
Complaint (PDF) Lawsuit claiming a 9/11 link between Iraq and al Qaeda. Sept. 3, 2002
Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view (Iraq believed to be behind 9/11)

Iraq and al Qaeda: Who's campaigning to deny the links?

Iraqi Terrorists Detail Ties To Bin Laden

Bin Laden disciples terrorise Kurds

The real bin Laden (Iraq has supported al-Qaida for more than a decade)

Iraq giving chemical weapons to al-Qaida: US thinks Iraq plotting with terrorists

Iraq and al-Qaida part of same picture, says Straw

'Iraq knew of al-Qaeda attacks'

Bin Laden said to have nukes (Iraq has assisted al-Qaida with the purchase of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons)

Bin Laden uses Iraq to plot new attacks

Exposed: Saddam's Prohibited Missiles and Support of al-Qaeda Terrorism

Mohamed Atta Was Here...And met with Saddam Hussein's man in Prague.

Bin Laden met Iraqi agent

Lawsuit Alleges Saddam Trained 9/11 Hijackers

Mike Boettcher: Arrests may link al Qaeda, Iraq

Al Qaeda got gas in Iraq

Son of Saddam Praises bin Laden in Official Iraqi Newspaper

Iraq's Ambassador To Turkey Recalled To Baghdad [second link between Bin Laden and Iraq discovered]

U.S.: Rumsfeld Says Al-Qaeda Takes Refuge In Iraq

CIA Director: Al Qaeda May Be Turning to Iraq

Rumsfeld Says Iraq Has Helped al-Qaeda

Iraqi Funds, Training Fuel Islamic Terror Group: Two Iraqi Arabs held in a Kurdish prison tell of contacts among Ansar al-Islam, Al Qaeda, and aides to the Iraqi president.

Iraq-Al-Qaeda Bombshell: Mag Documents New Links

German investigators link bin Laden and Iraq with anthrax outbreak

'Proof' of Iraq/Bin Laden links

Was bin Laden working with Iraq?

Iraq suspected of sponsoring terrorist attacks

Bush hopeful new report will link Iraq to al-Qaeda

U.S. captures Iraqis in Afghanistan raid

A Saddam-Afghanistan Connection Reported

Saddam trained al Qaeda terrorists, British claim

Iraq, al-Qaida linked by administration: Fleischer hints at more coming on connection

Gephardt: 'Lots Of' Intelligence Ties Iraq to Al-Qaeda

UHOLY TRINITY IN CHEMICAL WEAPONS PACT - IRAQ, SUDAN & OSAMA BIN LADEN

Links Between 9-11 Terrorist Leader Mohammed Atta, Anthrax, bin Laden and Iraq Appear Likely

The Saddam Hussein / Osama Bin Laden Connection

Iraq trains Bin Laden’s Men in Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Al Qaeda find Iraqi escape

'America Should Act in Self Defense Against Iraq For 9/11, OKC, 1993 WTC Attacks

Rumsfeld: Iraq Sheltered Top Bin Laden Aides

Exposed: Saddam's Prohibited Missiles and Support of al-Qaeda Terrorism

State Department: Key al Qaida Man in Baghdad

Bin Laden is back, now as defender of Iraq

Al Qaeda’s Man in Iraq?

Al-Qaida cohorts still active in Iraq

Debate over Iraq-bin Laden links reignited

Did Saddam, Bin Laden Work Together to Get Weapons of Mass Destruction?

U.S. Has 'Solid Evidence' of Al Qaeda Operating in Iraq

Iraq-al-Qaida links go back decade: CIA reports show nearly 100 examples of cooperation, says reporter

Arafat-Saddam-Bin Laden Links Surface

Bin Laden-Saddam nuclear pact?

Bin Laden imitates Saddam

‘PHARAOH' CLUE LINKS SADDAM AND OSAMA

New Evidence Of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties?

U.S. tracked top al Qaeda planner's visit to Baghdad

Rice: Iraq Providing Shelter, Chemical Weapons Help to Al Qaeda

Blair claims Iraq is linked to al-Qaida

Al-Qaeda terrorists seen in Iraq, says US

An Al Qaeda- Iraq link materializing?

The Iraqi-Oklahoma City Bombing Connection

Iraqi Complicity in the World Trade Center Bombing and Beyond

Taliban, Clinton, Saudi Involvement - All laid out in a book published in 2000 (from USMC.MIL site)

The Democrats' Case Against Saddam Hussein (Dems nailed, yet again)

Headline Rundown and links on Iraq - Things the democrats have conviently forgot...

Saddam Abused His Last Chance, Clinton -clear and present danger to safety of people everywhere 1998

Gore repeats that Saddam MUST GO - June 2000

What the democrats want you to forget

Iraq is a Regional Threat, capable of as much as 200 tons of VX nerve agent (1999 Clinton report)

Czech military reports say iraq has smallpox virus in weapons stockpile (and camelpox)

2/7/1998 : Arab media: Clinton will strike due to sex scandal (&links to tons of arab news on clinton)

Iraqi chemical weapons buildup reported (Sept 2001 Report)

Clinton, Gore rally domestic support for strike at Iraq, "unholy axis" (1998 Must read)

statement President Clinton from 1998 on the air strikes

Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 - Full Text, Sense of Congress - Remove Saddam

-Terror Tips--

-Time to kick the tires & light the fires, folks- terrorism gathers across the World...--

-All Terror, All the Time-- FR's links to NBC Warfare, Terror, and More...--

-Jihad! Across the World....--

-IRAQ- some links to terror--

-The Web of Terror--

-The Fire Down South...( Latin America--)--

I found another extensive list of links awhile back when I was researching for my own list...you might check them against your list to make sure you have them...

Click Here

If you are keeping the Clinton/Saddam list...here is one I found this morning that you might be interested in...

Clinton Axed Terror Probe

Iraq's Tie to Al-Qaeda Terrorists, Airline Hijackings

Photos Prove Connection Between Iraq and Al-Qaeda Terrorists
Taliban, Clinton, Saudi Involvement - All laid out in a book published in 2000 (from USMC.MIL site)

The Democrats' Case Against Saddam Hussein (Dems nailed, yet again)

Headline Rundown and links on Iraq - Things the democrats have conviently forgot...

Saddam Abused His Last Chance, Clinton -clear and present danger to safety of people everywhere 1998

Gore repeats that Saddam MUST GO - June 2000

What the democrats want you to forget

Iraq is a Regional Threat, capable of as much as 200 tons of VX nerve agent (1999 Clinton report)

Czech military reports say iraq has smallpox virus in weapons stockpile (and camelpox)

2/7/1998 : Arab media: Clinton will strike due to sex scandal (&links to tons of arab news on clinton)

Iraqi chemical weapons buildup reported (Sept 2001 Report)

Clinton, Gore rally domestic support for strike at Iraq, "unholy axis" (1998 Must read)

statement President Clinton from 1998 on the air strikes

Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 - Full Text, Sense of Congress - Remove Saddam

[RaceBannon]

We know Saddam worked with the PLO and other terrorists, he funded them. He

at LEAST knew that 9/11 was coming.

Less than two months before 9/11/01, the state-controlled Iraqi newspaper “Al-

Nasiriya” carried a column headlined, “American, an Obsession called Osama

Bin Ladin.” (July 21, 2001)

In the piece, Baath Party writer Naeem Abd Muhalhal predicted that bin Laden

would attack the US “with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert about the

way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House.”

The same state-approved column also insisted that bin Laden “will strike America

on the arm that is already hurting,” and that the US “will curse the memory of

Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs” – an apparent reference to the

Sinatra classic, “New York, New York”.
(Link below)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1106657/posts

List of newspaper article in the 90's which mention the world's concern regarding

the growing relationship between OBL and Saddam: http://www.freerepublic.

com/focus/news/946809/posts?page=1

Son of Saddam coordinates OBL activities:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/951911/posts

The AQ connection (excellent):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/944617/posts?page=2

Western Nightmare:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,798270,00.html

Saddam's link to OBL:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/866105/posts

NYT: Iraq and AQ agree to cooperate:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/985906/posts

Wolfowitz Says Saddam behind 9/11 Attacks:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/921398/posts

Growing Evidence of Saddam and Al Qaeda Link, The Weekly Standard, July

2003:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/946997/posts

Cheney lectures Russert on Iraq/911 Link, September 2003:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/982713/posts

No Question About It, National Review, September 2003
http://www.nationalreview.com/robbins/robbins091903.asp

Iraq: A Federal Judges Point of View
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/986293/posts

Mohammed's Account links Iraq to 9/11 and OKC:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/987075/posts

Free Republic Thread that mentions so me books Freepers might be interested in

on this topic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/977221/posts

The Proof that Saddam Worked with AQ, The Telegraph, April 2003:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F04%

2F27%2Fwalq27.xml

Saddam's AQ Connection, The Weekly Standard, September 2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/969032/posts

September 11 Victims Sue Iraq:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2237332.stm

Terrorist Behind 9/11 Attacks Trained by Saddam, The Telegraph, December

2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1007969/posts

James Woolsey Links Iraq and AQ, CNN Interview, March 2004, Also see Posts

#34 and #35
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1104121/posts

A Geocities Interesting Web Site with maps and connections:
http://www.geocities.com/republican_strategist/Iraq-Bin-Laden.html

Bin Laden indicted in federal court, read down to find information that Bin

Laden agreed to not attack Iraq and to work cooperatively with Iraq:
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/98110402.htm

Case Closed, The Weekly Standard, November 03
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz

.asp

CBS - Lawsuit: Iraq involved in 9/11:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/05/september11/main520874.shtml

Exploring Iraq's Involvement in pre-9/11 Acts, The Indianapolis Star:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/746225/posts

The Iraq/AQ Connection: Richard Minister again
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/989201/posts



Militia defector claims Baghdad trained Al-Qaeda fighters in chemical warfare
Gwynne Roberts in Ankara
Sunday Times (London); Overseas news; News; 23
July 14, 2002, Sunday
Mohammed said he was recruited into Saddam's Fedayeen in 1997 and trained at

two secret facilities - at Salman Pak, southeast of Baghdad, and at the Unit 999

camp, northwest of the Iraqi capital. His first encounter with Bin Laden's fighters

occurred at Salman Pak when he was on an induction course to become a

Fedayeen officer, he said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/743892/posts

The Clinton View of Iraq/AQ Ties, The Weekly Standard, December 2003
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/527uwabl

.asp

Saddam Controlled the Camps (Iraq/AQ Ties): The London Observer, November

01
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/741676/posts

Saddam's Terror Ties that Critics Ignore, National Review, October 2003:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1005579/posts

Tape Shows General Wesley Clark linking Iraq and AQ:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1056113/posts

Wall Street Journal on Iraq and AQ:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/987129/posts

Iraq and Iran contact OBL:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/981055/posts

Saddam's Ambassador to Al Qaeda: (February 2004, Weekly Standard)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1083778/posts

Yes - it's NewsMax but loaded with interesting bullet points.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1097521/posts?page=1

Saddam's Fingerprints on NY Bombing (Wall Street Journal, June 1993)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115387/posts

Colin Powell: Iraq and AQ Partners for Years (CNN, February 2003)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/05/sprj.irq.alqaeda.links/

TCS
The Iraq -- Al Qaeda Connections
by Richard Miniter Publish 09/25/2003
. . . Those who try to whitewash Saddam's record don't dispute this evidence; they

just ignore it. So let's review the evidence, all of it on the public record for months

or years:
* Abdul Rahman Yasin was the only member of the al Qaeda cell that detonated

the 1993 World Trade Center bomb to remain at large in the Clinton years. He

fled to Iraq. U.S. forces recently discovered a cache of documents in Tikrit,

Saddam's hometown, that show that Iraq gave Mr. Yasin both a house and

monthly salary.
* Sudanese intelligence officials told me that their agents had observed meetings

between Iraqi intelligence agents and bin Laden starting in 1994, when bin Laden

lived in Khartoum.
* In 1999 the Guardian, a British newspaper, reported that Farouk Hijazi, a senior

officer in Iraq's mukhabarat, had journeyed deep into the icy mountains near

Kandahar, Afghanistan, in December 1998 to meet with al Qaeda men. Mr. Hijazi

is "thought to have offered bin Laden asylum in Iraq," the Guardian reported.
* In October 2000, another Iraqi intelligence operative, Salah Suleiman, was

arrested near the Afghan border by Pakistani authorities, according to Jane's

Foreign Report, a respected international newsletter. Jane's reported that

Suleiman was shuttling between Iraqi intelligence and Ayman al Zawahiri, now al

Qaeda's No. 2 man.
* In 1998, Abbas al-Janabi, a longtime aide to Saddam's son Uday, defected to

the West. At the time, he repeatedly told reporters that there was a direct

connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.
*The Sunday Times found a Saddam loyalist in a Kurdish prison who claims to

have been Dr. Zawahiri's bodyguard during his 1992 visit with Saddam in

Baghdad. Dr. Zawahiri was a close associate of bin Laden at the time and was

present at the founding of al Qaeda in 1989.
* In 2001. . . That same year, Saudi Arabian border guards arrested two al Qaeda

members entering the kingdom from Iraq.
* Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi oversaw an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan,

Mr. Powell told the United Nations. His specialty was poisons. Wounded in

fighting with U.S. forces, he sought medical treatment in Baghdad in May 2002.

When Zarqawi recovered, he restarted a training camp in northern Iraq. Zarqawi's

Iraq cell was later tied to the October 2002 murder of Lawrence Foley, an official

of the U.S. Agency for International Development, in Amman, Jordan. The

captured assassin confessed that he received orders and funds from Zarqawi's cell

in Iraq, Mr. Powell said. His accomplice escaped to Iraq.
*Zarqawi met with military chief of al Qaeda, Mohammed Ibrahim Makwai (aka

Saif al-Adel) in Iran in February 2003, according to intelligence sources cited by

the Washington Post.
* Mohamed Mansour Shahab, a smuggler hired by Iraq to transport weapons to

bin Laden in Afghanistan, was arrested by anti-Hussein Kurdish forces in May,

2000. He later told his story to American intelligence and a reporter for the New

Yorker magazine.
* Documents found among the debris of the Iraqi Intelligence Center show that

Baghdad funded the Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan terror group led by an

Islamist cleric linked to bin Laden. According to a London's Daily Telegraph, the

organization offered to recruit "youth to train for the jihad" at a "headquarters for

international holy warrior network" to be established in Baghdad.
* Mullah Melan Krekar, ran a terror group (the Ansar al-Islam) linked to both bin

Laden and Saddam Hussein. Mr. Krekar admitted to a Kurdish newspaper that he

met bin Laden in Afghanistan and other senior al Qaeda officials. His

acknowledged meetings with bin Laden go back to 1988. When he organized

Ansar al Islam in 2001 to conduct suicide attacks on Americans, "three bin Laden

operatives showed up with a gift of $300,000 'to undertake jihad,'" Newsday

reported. Mr. Krekar is now in custody in the Netherlands. His group operated in

a portion of northern Iraq loyal to Saddam Hussein -- and attacked independent

Kurdish groups hostile to Saddam. A spokesman for the Patriotic Union of

Kurdistan told a United Press International correspondent that Mr. Krekar's group

was funded by "Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad."
* After October 2001, hundreds of al Qaeda fighters are believed to have holed

up in the Ansar al-Islam's strongholds inside northern Iraq. . . .
Mr. Miniter is a senior fellow at the Center for the New Europe and author of "

Losing bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror" (

Regnery) which is now on the New York Times' bestseller list.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/092503F.html

Oil for Food Scandal Ties Iraq and Al Qaeda (June 2003)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125899/posts

Saddam and OBL Make a Pact (The New Yorker, February 2003):
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030210fa_fact

Al Qaeda's Poison Gas (Wall Street Journal, April 2004):
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005016

Richard Clarke used to believe in an Iraq/AQ connection:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2097901/

Freeper list of links between AQ and Iraq:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/850346/posts

Salman Pak (Aviation Weekly)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/865435/posts

Saddam/911 Link (FrontPage Magazine, Laurie Mylroie, May 2004):
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1133317/posts

Bush says Zarqawi killed Berg, cites Saddam ties (Reuters, May 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1136076/posts

Iraq's WMD have been found:
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/05/11/World/Investigative.

Reportsaddams.Wmd.Have.Been.Found-670120.shtml

Another freeper resource - list of links between OBL and Saddam:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838309/posts

The Connections (May 2004, The Weekly Standard)
New Information:http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1144123/posts?page=11

Saddam's role in 9/11. (Freeper book, May 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1144699/posts

NewsMax reports on WSJ article last week regarding the Iraq/OBL connections.

Post #33 is spot on why the administration has chosen not to capitalize on this

matter, and to their detriment.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1144012/posts?page=53

Entire link and Post #5 - Clinton mentioned how AQ was developing a

relationship with Iraq.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1145787/posts

The House of Representatives read into the congressional record the ties that

Saddam had to Osama bin Laden (read down and open links in the record): June

2004
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/B?r108:@FIELD(FLD003+h)+@FIELD(

DDATE+20040601)

The Terrorist behind 9/11 was trained by Saddam (The Telegraph, 12/03)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1146356/posts

Saddam's connections to bin Laden/al-Qaeda/911
Excerpts from 60 articles with links provided to each of the original articles
“. . . prosecuting the informational battle in the War on Terrorism is not like

prosecuting a Mafia don, which typically requires rock-solid exhibits such as

wiretap intercepts, hidden-camera footage, DNA samples, and the testimony of

deep-cover “Mob rats.” On the contrary, it is important to emphasize, as strongly

as possible, that the United States need not—and in fact should not—hold itself to

courtroom standards of evidence except when appearing before domestic or

international judges. The administration merely has to demonstrate its claims and

refute those of its opponents, not convict Saddam Hussein before a jury of his

peers. . . . The appropriate standard of evidence . . . is not that of a trial, but

rather that of a hearing on whether a criminal suspect should be indicted. In this

respect, the “prosecution” definitely has a prima facie case that Hussein’s Iraq

indeed was a haven for terrorists until the moment U.S. troops invaded.” – Deroy

Murdock

Frontpagemag.com
The Saddam-9/11 Link Confirmed
By Laurie Mylroie
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 11, 2004
As Epstein now reports, Czech authorities have discovered that al-Ani’s

appointment calendar shows a scheduled meeting on April 8, 2001 with a "

Hamburg student."
That is exactly what the Czechs had been saying since shortly after 9/11: Atta, a

long-time student at Germany’s Hamburg-Harburg Technical University, met with

al-Ani on April 8, 2001. Indeed, when Atta earlier applied for a visa to visit the

Czech Republic, he identified himself as a “Hamburg student.” The discovery of

the notation in al-Ani’s appointment calendar about a meeting with a “Hamburg

student” provides critical corroboration of the Czech claim. America’s leading

lights, including those in government responsible for dealing with terrorism and

with Iraq, made a mammoth blunder. They failed to recognize that starting with

the first assault on New York’s World Trade Center, Iraq was working with

Islamic militants to attack the United States. This failure left the country

vulnerable on September 11, 2001.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13323


Newsmax.com
Tuesday, March 23, 2004 10:10 p.m. EST
[Richard] Clarke: Iraq Teamed Up With bin Laden to Produce WMDs
. . . reporters aren't talking about the chapter of "Against All Enemies" that

describes how Osama bin Laden cooperated with Iraqi scientists to make

weapons of mass destruction - a development that, if true, would more than

justify President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq.
In his book, [Richard] Clarke describes how the Clinton CIA determined in 1996

that Sudan's Shifa chemical plant, which was allegedly bankrolled by bin Laden,

was producing the chemical EMPTA.
"EMPTA is a compound that had been used as a prime ingredient in Iraqi nerve

gas," writes Clarke. "It has no other known use, nor had any other nation

employed EMPTA to our knowledge for any purpose."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/23/221155.shtml



Global Security.org
December 14, 2002 - 14:05
Salman Pak / Al Salman
Former Iraqi military officers have described a highly secret terrorist training

facility at Salman Pak, where both Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs receive training on

hijacking planes and trains, planting explosives in cities, sabotage, and

assassinations.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/salman_pak.htm



Photos Prove Connection Between Iraq and Al-Qaeda Terrorists
March 14, 2003
About 20 minutes before show time, we posted satellite imagery of Salman Pak -

home of the terrorist training center in Iraq we've been telling you about. I want

to thank Gary Napier and his whole staff from Space Imaging, Inc. for these

images from their IKONOS satellite.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/cold/

photos_prove_connection_between_iraq_and_al_qaedaterrorists.guest.html



Newsmax.com
Monday, Jan. 26, 2004 11:16 a.m. EST
Case for Iraq War Stronger Than Ever
U.S. satellite photos confirming the existence of a Boeing 707 fuselage that

Khodada and his partner say was used as a hijacking classroom. U.N. weapons

inspector Charles Duelfer, who was tapped on Friday to succeed David Kay,

corroborated their account.
A May 7, 2003, decision by Manhattan U.S. District Judge Harold Baer, . . . The

account of former CIA Director Woolsey, whose testimony was summarized by

Judge Baer thusly:
"Director Woolsey described the existence of a highly secure military facility in

Iraq where non-Iraqi fundamentalists [e.g., Egyptians and Saudis] are trained in

airplane hijacking and other forms of terrorism. Through satellite imagery and the

testimony of three Iraqi defectors, plaintiffs demonstrated the existence of this

facility, called Salman Pak, which has an airplane but no runway."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/1/26/120224.shtml



FreeRepublic
Proof of Iraq/Bin Laden links
Weekend Austrailian ^ |
November 04, 2001 | From AFP
. . . A former Iraqi special forces officer has given new proof of links between

Islamic extremist Osama bin Laden and Iraq, Italy's La Repubblica newspaper

reported on Saturday . . . The newspaper said that the former officer told of a

training camp called Salman Pak in Iraq where members of bin Laden's terror

network had trained as pilots and on how to seize control of aircraft. Musawi said

that the former officer told him: "There were also women pilots who were trained

and I believe that the next time, if there is a next time, it could be a woman who

takes over an airplane."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/563841/posts



PBS
Nov. 6, 2001
PBS interview with Iraqi Lt. General:
This general served Saddam Hussein for decades. Along with another Iraqi

defector, Sabah Khodada (see below), the general tells of terrorists training in a

Boeing 707 resting next to railroad tracks on the edge of Salman Pak, an area

south of Baghdad. The existence of the plane has been confirmed by U.N.

inspectors.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/general.html



PBS
Oct. 14, 2001
PBS interview with Sabah Khodada:
A captain in the Iraqi army from 1982 to 1992, he worked at what he describes as

a highly secret terrorist training camp at Salman Pak
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/khodada.

html



PBS
October 18, 2001
PBS interview with Laurie Mylorie:
Well, Jim Fox, then head of the New York FBI himself believed that Iraq was

behind the Trade Center bombing. Why? Because he recognized that the Muslim

extremists were not capable of carrying out this plot on their own. There was

something major behind it. Two, there were Iraqis all around the fringe of the

plot. One of those Iraqis, Abdul Rachman Yasin, came from Baghdad before the

bombing, returned to Baghdad afterwards.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/mylroie.html



Al Qaeda was trained in Iraqi terror camps
Febuary 13, 2003
GWYNNE ROBERTS
Sunday Times of London
EVIDENCE is now emerging of a shadowy military alliance between Saddam

Hussein and Osama bin Laden which involves training al Qaeda fighters to use

chemical and biological weapons in sabotage operations in Europe and the United

States.
US claims of a direct link between bin Laden and Saddam have fallen on deaf

ears in Europe. But an investigation I conducted for PBS, the American state

broadcaster, reveals such a connection really exists. . . . The first hint that

something unusual was happening was picked up in 1997 by Jane's Intelligence

Review. It reported that Saudi and Palestinian dissidents were being trained in

Iraq at secret camps run by a Iraqi military intelligence group known as Unit 999.

. . . In 1994, Unit 999 also started training Saddam's Fedayeen, a brutal militia.

Abu Mohammed, who fled to Turkey three years ago, told me that in 1997 and

1998 Islamic extremists were being instructed to use poison gas and biological

weapons in behind-the-lines operations in the Middle East and the West. Unit 999

ran a course for a number of extremist Middle Eastern groups, including al

Qaeda. . . . Mohammed said a year later he attended another training course at

Salman Pak and Unit 999 where he encountered al Qaeda fighters.
"There was also training in the use of biological and chemical weapons there but

they were not Iraqis doing it - only foreigners. In the training areas there is a field

especially for weapons of mass destruction. Here, experts hold lectures and

conduct biological experiments, theoretical experiments, of course, on how to

place explosives, or how to pollute specific areas."
Mohammed added: "They had maps of the USA, Britain, Turkey, Iran and Saudi

Arabia."
Gwynne Roberts is an Iraq specialist and documentary film maker
http://www.intelmessages.org/Messages/National_Security/wwwboard/

messages_02/3819.html



FreeRepublic
MEMRI
October 17, 2003 No.592
Iraqi Daily: Saddam Ordered Training of Al-Qa'ida Members
The independent Iraqi weekly Al-Yawm Al-Aakher reveals details on the training

of Al-Qa'ida members operating under the orders of Saddam's Presidential Palace

two months before the September 11 attacks. The following are excerpts from the

article:
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP59203



Weekly Standard:
Intel Report Links Saddam, Usama
Saturday, November 15, 2003
by Stephen F. Hayes
Usama bin Laden (search) and Saddam Hussein (search) had an operational

relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and

weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, Al Qaeda

training camps and safe haven in Iraq, and Iraqi financial support for Al Qaeda -

perhaps even for Mohamed Atta - according to a top secret U.S. government

memorandum obtained by The Weekly Standard.
The memo, dated October 27, 2003, was sent from Undersecretary of Defense for

Policy Douglas J. Feith (search) to Senators Pat Roberts and Jay Rockefeller, the

chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103176,00.html



NYPOST.COM
Intelligence Report Links Saddam, Usama
Sunday, November 16, 2003
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (search) gave terror lord Usama bin Laden's thugs

financial and logistical support, offering Al Qaeda (search) money, training and

haven for more than a decade, it was reported yesterday.
Their deadly collaboration — which may have included the bombing of the USS

Cole (search) and the 9/11 attacks — is revealed in a 16-page memo to the

Senate Intelligence Committee (search) that cites reports from a variety of

domestic and foreign spy agencies compiled by multiple sources,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103163,00.html



Terror-tied by memo
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published November 18, 2003
The unavoidable conclusion: Saddam Hussein's regime had been guilty as charged

-- tied for more than a decade to Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network (

among other terrorist groups) for the purpose of waging attacks on their mutual

foe, the United States.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20031117-085555-9545r.htm



March 18, 2002
Protecting Saddam
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Soviet propagandists used to touch up photographs to remove

the face of a Kremlin official who had fallen from favor, making him a "

nonperson." The same disinformation technique is now being used to wipe out

the fact of a meeting in Prague in April, 2001 — five months before the Sept. 11

attacks on the U.S. — between Mohamed Atta, the leading Qaeda hijacker, and

Ahmed al-Ani, the Iraqi consul in Prague, who was Saddam Hussein's intelligence

case officer there.
On solid evidence: The Czech intelligence agency, B.I.S., had the Iraqi embassy

spy in Prague under constant visual and wiretap surveillance . . . Three months

ago, after the absolve-Saddam campaign began to cast doubt on the report of the

Atta-al Ani meeting at the Prague airport, Interior Minister Stanislav Gross issued

a statement that "B.I.S. guarantees the information, so we stick by that

information." No backing away; on the contrary, strong reaffirmation.
On corroboration of the evidence that Atta flew 7,000 miles, from Virginia Beach

to Prague and back to Florida (his third trip to Prague in a year): The F.B.I. has

car-rental and other records that Atta left for Prague on April 8, 2001, and

returned on April 11. The B.I.S. report of the meeting that Saddam's case officer

had with the suicide hijacker fell precisely within those dates. Czech intelligence,

in identifying al-Ani's contact as Atta, had no knowledge of the F.B.I.'s evidence

that independently corroborates Atta's brief presence in Prague.
On C.I.A. assessment of the evidence: James Risen reported in The New York

Times last month that while not enough evidence ties Saddam specifically to Sept.

11, "senior American intelligence officials have concluded that the meeting

between Mr. Atta and the Iraqi officer, Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, did

take place."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30713F73C5C0C7B8DDDAA

0894DA404482



UN envoy confirms terrorist meeting
Kmonicek says Al-Ani, Atta spoke in Prague
By Frank Griffiths
FOR THE POST
June 5, 2002
The Czech envoy to the UN has confirmed that an Iraqi agent met with suspected

Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, in the latest rebuke to widespread U.S. media

reports dismissing the Prague encounter as a fabrication.
"The meeting took place," Hynek Kmonicek, a former deputy foreign minister,

told The Prague Post flatly in a New York City interview . . . The rendezvous

between the al-Qaida operative and the Iraqi intelligence agent was confirmed by

Prime Minister Milos Zeman . . . But Kmonicek, a government official with top

security clearance, was adamant that al-Ani and Atta met in April 2001, as Czech

officials have stated repeatedly.
. . . Kmonicek said the Czech government collected detailed evidence of the al-

Ani/Atta meeting, but declined to elaborate on the nature of the evidence. . . .
http://www.praguepost.com/P02/2002/20605/news1a.php



'Saddam controlled the camp’
The Iraqi connection
Sunday November 11, 2001
The Observer
As evidence linking Iraqi intelligence to the 11 September hijackers begins to

emerge, David Rose gathers testimony from former Baghdad agents and the CIA

to reveal the secrets of Saddam's terror training camp.
Zeinab and Khodad said the Salman Pak students practised their techniques in a

Boeing 707 fuselage parked in the foreigners' part of the camp. Yesterday their

story received important corroboration from Charles Duelfer, former vice

chairman of Unscom, the UN weapons inspection team. Duelfer said he visited

Salman Pak several times, landing by helicopter. He saw the 707, in exactly the

place described by the defectors.
. . . Abu Amin . . . he is one of Iraq's most highly decorated intelligence officers . .

. who then went on to a senior post in the unit known as 'M8' - the department

for 'special operations', such as sabotage, terrorism and murder. This is the man,

Colonel Muhammed Khalil Ibrahim al-Ani, whom Mohamed Atta flew halfway

across the world to meet in Prague last April, five months before piloting his

hijacked aircraft into the World Trade Centre.
Evidence is mounting that this meeting was not an isolated event. The Observer

has learnt that Atta's talks with al-Ani were only one of several apparent links

between Iraq, the 11 September hijackers and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda

network. Senior US intelligence sources say the CIA has 'credible information'

that in the spring of this year, at least two other members of the hijacking team

also met known Iraqi intelligence agents outside the United States. They are

believed to be Atta's closest associates and co-leaders, Marwan al-Shehri and

Ziad Jarrah, the other two members of the 'German cell ' who lived with Atta in

Hamburg in the late 1990s.
In the strongest official statement to date alleging Iraqi involvement in the new

wave of anti-Western terrorism, on Friday night Milos Zeman, the Czech Prime

Minister, told reporters and Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, that the

Czech authorities believed Atta and al-Ani met expressly to discuss a bombing.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,591439,00.html



MSN
Prague Revisted
The evidence of an Iraq/al-Qaida connetion hasn’t gone away.
By Edward Jay Epstein
Updated Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003
Atta's business appeared to be extremely time sensitive and specific to May 30.

When Atta learned in Hamburg that his Czech visa would not be ready until May

31, he nevertheless flew on May 30 to the Prague International Airport, where he

would not be allowed to go beyond the transit lounge. Although a large part of

this area is surveiled by cameras, he managed to spend all but a few minutes out

of their range. After some six hours, he then caught a flight back to Hamburg.

>From this visaless round trip, Czech intelligence inferred that Atta had a meeting

on May 30 that could not wait, even a day and that whoever arranged it was

probably familiar with the transit lounge's surveillance. Finally, the BIS

determined that the Prague connection was not limited to a single appointment

since Atta returned to Prague by bus on June 2 (now with visa BONN

200005260024), and, after a brief wait in the bus station, disappeared for nearly

20 hours before catching a flight to the United States.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2091354/



NRO
March 17, 2003 1:45 p.m.
Disarmament Not Good Enough
Getting rid of Saddam.
Deroy Murdock
A 9/11 CONNECTION?
According to Michael Ledeen's book, The War Against the Terror Masters,

September 11 ring leader Mohamed Atta flew from Virginia Beach to Prague on

April 7, 2001. The next day, he met with an Iraqi diplomat and suspected spy

named Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani in Prague. On April 9, Ledeen writes,

Atta flew home to Florida. "Less than two weeks later he opened an account at

the Sun Bank in Florida, and $100,000 was transferred into that account from an

unknown money-changer in the Persian Gulf." That April 22, Czech officials

expelled Al-Ani for "engaging in activities beyond his diplomatic duties," namely

surveilling Radio Free Europe's Prague headquarters.
http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock031703.asp



Edward Jay Epstein
Ask Ed
Question:
What is the status of the meeting in Prague between September 11th hijacker

Mohamed Atta and Iraqi embassy intelligence officer, Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim

Samir Al-Ani?
Answer:
The basic information has not changed: Czech counter intelligence determined

that an Iraqi official under its surveillance met Atta in April 2001. The

interpretation of it, however, has undergone a number of vacillations. Here is the

chronology:
http://edwardjayepstein.com/2002question/prague.htm



Newsmax.com
Intelligence Bombshell: Saddam Financed Lead 9/11 Hijacker
Saturday, Nov. 15, 2003 10:44 a.m. EST
In a startling about-face for U.S. intelligence officials, a bombshell memo released

by the Senate Intelligence Committee late Friday draws a direct link between

Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks, citing evidence that Iraqi intelligence

bankrolled lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta in the months leading up to the

worst terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil.
The previously secret 16-page memo, prepared by the CIA and other U.S.

intelligence agencies, says Atta met as many as four times in Prague with Iraqi

intelligence agent Ahmed al Ani prior to the 9/11 attacks.
In a staggering revelation, which offers an overwhelming and compelling

justification for the U.S. attack on Iraq, the CIA memo says that, during one of

these meetings, al Ani "ordered the [Iraqi Intelligence Service] finance officer to

issue Atta funds from IIS financial holdings in the Prague office."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/11/15/111243.shtml



Newsmax.com
Sunday, Oct. 6, 2002; 10:31 a.m. EDT
Gephardt: 'Lots Of' Intelligence Ties Iraq to Al-Qaeda
House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., said Sunday that he'd seen "lots

of intelligence" that ties Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad to Osama bin

Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2002/10/6/102835



Does this link Saddam to 9/11?
(Filed: 14/12/2003)
London Telegraph
However, the tantalising detail provided in the intelligence document uncovered

by Iraq's interim government suggests that Atta's involvement with Iraqi

intelligence may well have been far deeper than has hitherto been acknowledged.
Written in the neat, precise hand of Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, the former

head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) and one of the few named in the US

government's pack of cards of most-wanted Iraqis not to have been apprehended,

the personal memo to Saddam is signed by Habbush in distinctive green ink.
Headed simply "Intelligence Items", and dated July 1, 2001, it is addressed: "To

the President of the Ba'ath Revolution Party and President of the Republic, may

God protect you."
The first paragraph states that "Mohammed Atta, an Egyptian national, came with

Abu Ammer (an Arabic nom-de-guerre - his real identity is unknown) and we

hosted him in Abu Nidal's house at al-Dora under our direct supervision.
"We arranged a work programme for him for three days with a team dedicated to

working with him . . . He displayed extraordinary effort and showed a firm

commitment to lead the team which will be responsible for attacking the targets

that we have agreed to destroy."
There is nothing in the document that provides any clue to the identity of the "

targets", although Iraqi officials say it is a coded reference to the September 11

attacks.
http://www.sundaytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%

2F12%2F14%2Fwterr114.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=25102



Document links Saddam, bin Laden
Wednesday, 06/25/03
By GILBERT S. MERRITT
For The Tennessean
Through an unusual set of circumstances, I have been given documentary

evidence of the names and positions of the 600 closest people in Iraq to Saddam

Hussein, as well as his ongoing relationship with Osama bin Laden. . . .
So today he brought me the proof, and there is no doubt in my mind that he is

right.
The document shows that an Iraqi intelligence officer, Abid Al-Karim Muhamed

Aswod, assigned to the Iraq embassy in Pakistan, is ''responsible for the

coordination of activities with the Osama bin Laden group.''
The document shows that it was written over the signature of Uday Saddam

Hussein, the son of Saddam Hussein. The story of how the document came about

is as follows. . . .
http://www.tennessean.com/nation-world/archives/03/06/34908297.shtml
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86153,00.html



NewsMax.com
Monday, March 15, 2004 7:24 AM EST
Report: Saddam Harbored Terrorists Who Killed Americans
Saddam Hussein supplied financial support, training and shelter for an array of

deadly terrorist organizations right up until the onset of the Iraq war a year ago,

including such notorious groups as Hamas, Ansar al-Islam, the Palestinian

Liberation Front, the Abu Nidal Organization and the Arab Liberation Front,

according to a comprehensive report released by the Hudson Institute.
Titled "Saddam's Philanthropy of Terror," the report details the role played by

terrorists supported by Saddam's regime in an array of infamous attacks that have

killed hundreds of American citizens both inside and outside the U.S. before and

after the Sept. 11 attacks - including the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro, the

1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and

the Palestinian Intifada . . .
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/14/141831.shtml



"Saddam's Philanthropy of Terror”
by Deroy Murdock
American Outlook – Fall 2003
http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/murdocksaddamarticle.pdf



FAS
The National Interest, Winter, 1995/96
THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMB:
Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters
by Laurie Mylroie
Few Americans are aware of the true scale of the destructive ambition behind

that bomb, this despite the fact that two years later, the key figure responsible for

building it--a man who had entered the United Stares on an Iraqi passport under

the name of Ramzi Yousef--was involved in another stupendous bombing

conspiracy. In January 1995, Yousef and his associates plotted to blow up eleven

U.S. commercial aircraft in one spectacular day of terrorist rage. The bombs were

to be made of a liquid explosive designed to pass through airport metal detectors.

But while mixing his chemical brew in a Manila apartment, Yousef started a fire.

He was forced to flee, leaving behind a computer that contained the information

that led to his arrest a month later in Pakistan. Among the items found in his

possession was a letter threatening Filipino interests if a comrade held in custody

were not released. It claimed the "ability to make and use chemicals and

poisonous gas... for use against vital institutions and residential populations and

the sources of drinking water." [1] Quickly extradited, he is now in U.S. custody

awaiting trial this spring. . . .
It is important to know who Ramzi Yousef is and who his "friends" are, because

if he is not just a bomber-for-hire, or an Islamic militant loosely connected to

other Muslim fundamentalists, Yousef's "friends" could still prove very dangerous

to the United States. It is of considerable interest, therefore, that a very

persuasive case can be made that Ramzi Yousef is an Iraqi intelligence agent, and

that his bombing conspiracies were meant as Saddam Hussein's revenge for the

Gulf War. . . .
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iraq/956-tni.htm



Insight on the news
"Deathbed" Confession Transcript -- World Exclusive
Posted April 19, 2002
The following interview with ELMINA ABDUL, widow of EDWIN ANGELES,

one of the cofounders of the ABU SAYYAF GROUP (ASG), and deep cover

agent for the Defense Intelligence Group (DIG) of the Department of National

Defense (DND), of the Republic of the Philippines, was taken on March 10,

2002, in the presence of CHRISTOPHER M. PUNO, Information Officer of the

Province of Basilan, at BASCOM Hospital, in the general ward. . . .
DZS: Did he ever talk to you about meetings with Arabs or Americans?
EA: Yes, once he had met with some Arabs and Americans in 1994, in Davao (

City), or General Santos (City).
DZS: Did he tell you who they were?
EA: Does the name Ramsey Yousef mean something to you Mr. Sicat?
DZS: Ahmad Hassim. Does that mean something to you?
EA: He had met with them. And an American who he called Terry or the Farmer,

and another American whom he did not name.
DZS: Was the American he named as Terry, Terry Nichols?
EA: He did not mention the surname. Only Terry.
DZS: Did he tell you why and how many times they had met?
EA: They met almost every day for one week. They met in an empty bodega (

warehouse). They talked about bombings. They mentioned bombing government

buildings in San Francisco, Saint Louis and in Oklahoma. The Americans wanted

instructions how to make and to explode bombs. He (Edwin) told me that

Janjalani was very interested in paying them much money to explode the

buildings. The money was coming from Yousef and the other Arab. . . .
DZS: Did he tell you when the bombs would explode; when they exploded?
EA: He told me that the Americans exploded one bomb in Oklahoma in 1995,

after he was arrested and after we first met.
DZS: Did he ever tell you who was supplying the money for the bombing of the

building, I mean who Yousef was working with or for?
EA: Mr. Sicat, you are the mediaman. Do you not know that Yousef was

representing Iraq and Saddam Hussein? Do you not know that? . . .
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=241231



Insight on the news
Insight Online World Exclusive
Posted April 19, 2002
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
Insight has learned that the widow of Philippine-government intelligence agent

Edwin Angeles has provided audiotaped testimony to an investigator working for

the American victims' families that directly ties Iraqi intelligence agents to Terry

Nichols, the man sentenced in 1998 to life in prison for his role in bombing the

Alfred P. Murrah Building seven years ago.
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/241237.html



The Terrorist Motel
The I-40 connection between Zacarias Moussaoui and Mohamed Atta
by Jim Crogan
LAWeekly
JULY 26 - AUGUST 1, 2002
The motel owner said that Moussaoui and a man who appeared to be Marwan al

-Shehhi -- who helped crash a jetliner into the south tower of the World Trade

Center -- were friendly and said a few things, but Atta was clearly the leader. "He

did most of the talking and seemed very serious," said the owner . . .
One reason for the FBI's apparent lack of interest might be this motel's alleged

connection to Timothy McVeigh and a group of Iraqis who worked in Oklahoma

City. According to the motel owner and other witnesses and investigators

interviewed by the Weekly, McVeigh and several of these Iraqis were motel

guests in the months preceding the 1995 bombing. Witnesses also claimed they

saw several of the Iraqis moving barrels of material around on the bed of a truck.

The motel owner said the material smelled of diesel fuel and he had to clean up a

spill. Diesel fuel was a key component of the truck bomb that blew up the Federal

Building. . . .
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/36/news-crogan.php



WorldNetDaily
Oklahoma City blast linked to bin Laden
Reporter says FBI refused to accept evidence of foreign terror connection
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2001
A former investigative reporter for the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City last night

told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly she has gathered massive evidence of a

foreign conspiracy involving Saudi terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in the 1995

bombing of the federal building that killed 168 people.
Jayna Davis, former reporter for KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, says she took her

evidence -- including hundreds of court records, 24 sworn witness statements and

reports from law enforcement, intelligence and terror experts -- to the FBI, which

refused even to accept the material.
She said a Middle East terrorist cell was in operation only blocks from the federal

building, and that an Iraqi national who formerly served in Saddam Hussein's

Republican Guard was in contact with McVeigh the day of the bombing. She said

this suspect arrived at the crime scene in a Ryder truck moments before the blast

and sped away in a brown Chevrolet pickup truck immediately after.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22122



Investigative Report
InsightMag.com
Iraqi Connection to Oklahoma Bombing
Posted March 25, 2002
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
. . . That was before an Oklahoma City lawyer named Mike Johnston, aided by

Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch, filed a federal lawsuit against Iraq on behalf of

victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. The lawsuit alleges that "the entire plot to

blow up the Murrah Building on April 19, 1995, in whole or in part, was

orchestrated, assisted technically and/ or financially and directly aided by agents

of the Republic of Iraq." . . .
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court in Washington on March 14, alleges that

convicted Oklahoma City conspirator Nichols met repeatedly in the Philippines

with World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Youssef, and that Youssef was an Iraqi

intelligence agent. If these allegations are confirmed in court, they constitute a

stunning indictment of Iraqi state complicity in murderous attacks on the United

States well before Sept. 11.
As if anticipating new developments on the terrorism front, CIA Director Tenet

told the Senate Armed Services Committee in unusually frank testimony on

March 19 that the United States now is actively examining potential Iraqi and

Iranian involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. . . . Last October, U.S. News &

World Report revealed in its "Washington Whispers" column that McVeigh was

carrying Iraqi telephone numbers when he was arrested on the day of the

bombing. Sources tell INSIGHT that the phone numbers apparently were

contained in a sealed manila envelope that was turned over to the FBI unopened

by the Oklahoma state troopers who arrested McVeigh. The FBI logged in the

evidence as "manila envelope with content," but never disclosed what was inside.
Yet another potential Iraqi connection to the Oklahoma City bombing is being

promoted by a former Oklahoma City TV reporter named Jayna Davis, who

claims to have discovered an Iraqi terrorist network embedded within the Arab

immigrant community in the city. . . .
But new evidence uncovered by Johnston and his investigators suggests that

Youssef may have had direct ties to Iraqi intelligence all along. "We have sworn

witness statements and affidavits from court cases that predate the Oklahoma

City bombing that directly tie Ramzi Youssef to Dr. Ihsan Barbouti," Johnston

tells INSIGHT. "The witnesses say Barbouti introduced Ramzi Youssef as an

'explosives expert for the Iraqi National Oil Company,' and that Youssef was

working in Kuwait for Barbouti prior to the Iraqi invasion." Johnston says that he

believes Barbouti was married to a member of Saddam Hussein's al-Tikriti clan.

In tribal Iraq, such ties create bonds of absolute loyalty.
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=221859



OpinionJournal
The Iraq Connection
BY MICAH MORRISON
Thursday, September 5, 2002 12:01 a.m. EDT
. . . the long investigative work by Ms. Davis and Ms. Mylroie, coming to parallel

conclusions though working largely independently of each other, has gained some

prominent supporters. Former CIA Director James Woolsey, for example,

recently told the Journal that "when the full stories of these two incidents are

finally told, those who permitted the investigations to stop short will owe big

explanations to these two brave women. And the nation will owe them a debt of

gratitude."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110002217



Highlights of complaint against Iraq for OK City bombing filed in US District

Court, Washington DC (filed in March 2002) Jury selection March 2004:
7. The parties hereto, based on their collective knowledge and on the knowledge

of other victims of the bombing of April 19, 1995, believe that the attack was not

as simple as has been portrayed by the United States government during the

criminal trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Specifically, upon

information and belief, Plaintiffs assert that other individuals were involved in

preparation for and execution of the attack. Plaintiffs assert that the entire plot

was, in whole or in part, orchestrated, assisted technically and/or financially, and

directly aided by agents of The Republic of Iraq. Plaintiffs further assert that this

attack was an illegal continuation of the Persian Gulf War. Plaintiffs herein assert

that they or their loved ones are, in effect, civilian casualties of said Gulf War in

a manner contrary to the Geneva Convention and other applicable international

treaties. Plaintiffs assert that the involvement and complicity of Iraq can be

proven by both direct and circumstantial evidence in classic application, i.e.,

means, opportunity and motive, to wit:
10. On April 20, 1990, a Criminal Investigation Agent for the U.S. Customs

Service authored a “Report of Investigation” including information from a

confidential informant from Europe who revealed that Barbouti was a “conduit

for. . .funds to terrorist organizations.” The Customs informant also noted that

there was an individual working with Barbouti. . . . Said individual was identified

in a 1991 Florida federal court case, i.e., testimony given two years before the

first attack on the World Trade Center, as being “Ramzi Youssef.” Youssef was

an Iraqi government agent.
20. Three months later, when the Murrah Building was bombed, Abdul Hakim

Murad, in a prison cell in New York City awaiting trial for his part in the plot to

bomb five American 747 aircraft, admitted verbally on April 19, 1995 and in

writing that Ramzi Youssef’s “liberation army” was responsible for the Murrah

Building bombing! Murad’s conspiratorial admission of foreign involvement in

the Oklahoma City bombing was revealed by an FBI 302 Report that was

referenced in Timothy McVeigh’s March 1997 “Petition for Writ of Mandamus,”

Case No. 97-1109 (10th Cir.). The 302 Report was sealed. Said conspiratorial

admission, however, was never reported by the government to the bombing

victims.
23. Freedom of Information Act records obtained from Interpol’s National

Central Bureau on February 24, 2000 revealed that, long after Nichols and

McVeigh were in custody for the Murrah Building bombing, Interpol was still

trying to apprehend at least two other individuals, one a foreign national,

somewhere overseas, who were “implicated in the bomb attack against the

Oklahoma City federal building on April 19, 1995.” Also, the last (released)

document contained in Interpol’s file regarding the Oklahoma City bombing was

a New York Times article about the 1997 trial of Ramzi Youssef for the terrorist

plots prepared in the Philippines during 1994 and early 1995. See Exhibit 4,

attached hereto, which is incorporated herein by reference. Obviously, Interpol

connected Ramzi Youssef to the Oklahoma City bombing. Neither of these things

was ever revealed by the United States government to Plaintiffs, i.e., bombing

victims, herein.
24. Plaintiffs further assert that Timothy McVeigh had additional Iraqi assistance

in preparing the Murrah Building attack during the days leading up to April 19,

1995. This included, specifically, the assistance of Hussain Hashem Alhussaini, a

former soldier in the Iraqi army during the Gulf War who had been allowed entry

into the United States in 1994 through Boston from an interment camp in Saudi

Arabia. Also, see Exhibit 5, attached hereto, which is a copy of an April 19, 1995

government memorandum documenting a report to the Washington Metropolitan

Field Office of the FBI, made by a former high-ranking CIA official, and is

incorporated herein by reference. Said CIA official (who had previously worked

on the Pan Am 103 case) was passing on urgent information from a Saudi

Arabian counterterrorism official in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The intelligence

information was that “there was a ‘squad’ of people currently in the United

States, very possibly Iraqis, who have been tasked with carrying out terrorist

attacks against the United States.” One of the three targets specifically mentioned

in the report was Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The existence of this memo was

never communicated by the U.S. government to Plaintiffs herein, i.e., victims.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/cases/86/complaint.html







Insight on the news
The Link Between Iraq and Al-Qaeda
Posted Sept. 29, 2003
By Scott L. Wheeler
Senior investigators and analysts in the U.S. government have concluded that Iraq

acted as a state sponsor of terrorism against Americans and logistically supported

the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States - confirming news reports that

until now have emerged only in bits and pieces. . . . That assistance, confirmed

independently, came in a variety of ways, including financial support spun out

through a complex web of financial institutions in Switzerland, Liechtenstein,

Italy and elsewhere. Long suspected of having terrorist ties to al-Qaeda, they now

have been linked to Iraq as well. . . . Bush officially cited al-Taqwa as part of al

-Qaeda's money-laundering activities. . . . It is in al-Taqwa and Nada

Management that the government investigator says he found the links to Saddam

and Iraq.
Leitner says. The O'Neill lawsuit . . . against Iraq points to numerous

organizations and financial institutions the plaintiffs say were "fronts" for Islamic

terrorism activities and claims financial linkages to Iraq, Iraqi intelligence and

Saddam. . . . Also listed as a defendant in the lawsuit is the Arab TV network al-

Jazeera. "Defendant Mohammed Jaseem al-Ali and two other employees of al-

Jazeera are identified in documents captured in the April 2003 U.S. military

action in Iraq as having received substantial funding from the Iraqi regime in

exchange for acting as liaisons between Iraq and al-Qaeda. One document reveals

that al-Jazeera passed letters from Osama bin Laden to Saddam Hussein," the

complaint alleges. . . .
Scott L. Wheeler is a contributing writer for Insight magazine.
email the author
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/477622



the weekly Standard
Saddam's Ambassador to al Qaeda
From the March 1, 2004 issue: An Iraqi prisoner details Saddam's links to Osama

bin Laden's terror network.
by Jonathan Schanzer
03/01/2004, Volume 009, Issue 24
A RECENTLY INTERCEPTED MESSAGE from Iraq-based terrorist Abu

Musab al Zarqawi asking the al Qaeda leadership for reinforcements reignited the

debate over al Qaeda ties with Saddam Hussein's fallen Baath regime. . . . In

addition to weapons, al-Shamari said, the Mukhabarat also helped finance Ansar

al Islam. "On one occasion we gave them ten million Swiss dinars [$700,000]," al

-Shamari said, referring to the pre-1990 Iraqi currency. On other occasions, the

Mukhabarat provided more than that. The assistance, he added, was furnished "

every month or two months." . . . “Abu Wael was "the actual decision-maker" for

Ansar al Islam and "an employee of the Mukhabarat." . . . The prisoner told me

that he had worked for Abu Wael, who was the leader of a special intelligence

directorate in the Mukhabarat. That directorate provided assistance to Ansar al

Islam at the behest of Saddam Hussein. . . . Al-Shamari also told me that the links

between Saddam's regime and the al Qaeda network went beyond Ansar al Islam.

He explained in considerable detail that Saddam actually ordered Abu Wael to

organize foreign fighters from outside Iraq to join Ansar. Al-Shamari estimated

that some 150 foreign fighters were imported from al Qaeda clusters in Jordan,

Turkey, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, and Lebanon to fight with Ansar al Islam's Kurdish

fighters. . . . a man known simply as Qods. In June 2003, just before he was

arrested and put in the jail where I met him, Qods said that . . . It was only then, .

. . that he learned of the link between the Baathists and al Qaeda. . . .
Jonathan Schanzer is a terrorism analyst for the Washington Institute for Near

East Policy and author of the forthcoming book "Al-Qaeda's Armies: Middle East

Affiliates and the Next Generation of Terror."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/768rwsbj

.asp?pg=1



An Essay:
Iraq’s State Sponsorship of Osama bin-Laden and the
al-Qaeda Terror Network
The Washington Dispatch
Essay by Chris Farrell
Jun 30, 2002
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/16/32/printer



Arafat-Saddam-Bin Laden Links Surface
DEBKAfile Expose
September 24, 2002, 4:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=155



For Immediate Release
Aug 13, 2002
SEPTEMBER 11 LAWSUIT AGAINST IRAQ MOVES FORWARD
State Department Confirms Saddam Hussein’s Government Served With Lawsuit

Alleging September 11 Involvement
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and

prosecutes government corruption, today announced that the governments of Iraq

and Afghanistan have been served with a civil lawsuit. . . . The lawsuit alleges a

conspiracy among Iraq, bin Laden, the Taliban/Afghani government in the

September 11 terrorist attacks on America. The lawsuit alleges that Iraq provided

“material support and assistance” to bin Laden’s network to carry out the

September 11 attacks and that Iraqi intelligence met several times with September

11 terrorists, in addition to providing training for bin Laden’s terrorist network in

Iraq itself. - Judicial Watch, Inc.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/2323.shtml



9/11 SUIT TIES SADDAM TO 10 YRS. OF AID FOR OSAMA
New York Post; New York; Sep 9, 2002; JOHN LEHMANN;
Words in Document: 265
Abstract:
The civil suit against Iraq, filed last week on behalf of 1,400 victims of the Sept.

11 attacks and their families, relies on confidential briefings by ex-CIA officers,

interviews with Iraqi defectors, al Qaeda members' testimonies at the African

embassy bombing trial and Iraqi and American press reports, according to

Manhattan law firm Kreindler and Kreindler. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost

/164848461.html?did=164848461&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Sep+9,+

2002&desc=9%2f11+SUIT+TIES+SADDAM+TO+10+YRS.+OF+AID+FOR+

OSAMA


(2002/09/05):
"Lawsuit: Iraq Knew of 9/11 Attacks"
By Larry Neumeister
Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, September 4, 2002; 7:16 PM
NEW YORK -- A lawsuit filed Wednesday claims Iraq knew Osama bin Laden

was targeting the Pentagon and New York City prior to Sept. 11 and that it

sponsored terrorists for a decade to avenge its defeat in the Gulf War. . . . The

lawsuit alleges that Yousef was an Iraqi intelligence agent who traveled to the

United States using travel documents forged in Kuwait during the Iraqi

occupation of that country in 1991. Yousef was eventually convicted in the trade

center bombing and a plot to blow up a dozen airliners over the Far East in 1995.

He is serving a life prison term.
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/9-06-02/discussion.cgi.39.shtml



Friday, March 7, 2003 1:57 p.m. EST
NewsMax,com
CIA's Woolsey Tells Court: Iraq Involved in 9/11
Former CIA Director James Woolsey offered bombshell testimony this week in a

lawsuit brought by the families of World Trade Center victims that implicates

Saddam Hussein in the 9/11 attacks. . . . The one-time Clinton administration

intelligence chief described what he said was a conspiracy between al-Qaeda and

Baghdad.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2003/3/7/140812



Sept. 11 Families Win $104-Million
NEW YORK-May 7, 2003 — A federal judge Wednesday awarded nearly $104

million in damages to the families of at least two victims of the Sept. 11 terror

attacks, saying they had shown that Iraq provided material support to Osama bin

Laden and al-Qaeda.
Judge Harold Baer outlined the damages against bin Laden, the Taliban and

Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi government in a written decision in U.S. District

Court in Manhattan. Baer said he had concluded that lawyers for the two victims

"have shown, albeit barely ... that Iraq provided material support to bin Laden

and al-Qaeda." - ABC Action News
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/5-09-03/discussion.cgi.53.html



NewsMax,com
Friday, May 9, 2003 7:22 a.m. EDT
9/11 Bombshell: Judge Rules Saddam Trained Hijackers
In a bombshell finding virtually ignored by the American media, a U.S. district

court judge in Manhattan ruled Wednesday that Salman Pak, Saddam Hussein's

airplane hijacking school located on the outskirts of Baghdad, played a material

role in the devastating Sept. 11 attacks on America. . . . according to courtroom

testimony by three of the camp's instructors, the facility was a virtual hijacking

classroom where al-Qaeda recruits practiced overcoming U.S. flight crews using

only small knives - a terrorist technique never employed before 9/11.
At least one veteran of Salman Pak, Sabah Khodad, has maintained that the 9/11

hijackers were actually trained by Saddam's henchman. He told PBS in October

2001 that the World Trade Center attack "was done by graduates of Salman Pak

."
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2003/5/9/72820

The above lawsuit was filed in Manhattan, the following lawsuit is unrelated and

was filed in Washington D.C.



NewsMax,com
Wednesday Feb. 5, 2003; 1:47 p.m. EST
Lawsuit Alleges Saddam Trained 9/11 Hijackers
A lawsuit set to be filed in Washington, D.C. will allege that . . . "Saddam Hussein

helped to plan and pay for the September 11 terror attacks on New York and

Washington, according to U.S. court documents obtained by the Sunday

Express," the paper claimed. . . . Five key witnesses - three Iraqi defectors and

two former U.N. weapons inspectors - have "provided chilling details," the

Express said . . .
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2003/2/5/135346



Spain links suspect in 9/11 plot to Baghdad
David Rose
Sunday March 16, 2003
The Observer
An alleged terrorist accused of helping the 11 September conspirators was invited

to a party by the Iraqi ambassador to Spain under his al-Qaeda nom de guerre,

according to documents seized by Spanish investigators.
Yusuf Galan, who was photographed being trained at a camp run by Osama bin

Laden, is now in jail, awaiting trial in Madrid. The indictment against him, drawn

up by investigating judge Baltasar Garzon, claims he was 'directly involved with

the preparation and carrying out of the attacks ... by the suicide pilots on 11

September'.
Evidence of Galan's links with Iraqi government officials came to light only

recently, as investigators pored through more than 40,000 pages of documents

seized in raids at the homes of Galan and seven alleged co-conspirators. The

Spanish authorities have supplied copies to lawyers in America, and this week the

documents will form part of a dossier to be filed in a federal court in Washington,

claiming damages of approximately $100 billion on behalf of more than 2,500 11

September victims. - The Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915142,00.html



WorldNetDaily
Posted: December 11, 2002
Iraq-al-Qaida links go back decade
By David Rose
CIA reports of Iraqi-al-Qaida cooperation number nearly 100 and extend back to

1992, according to a reporter for Vanity Fair whose sources include senior

Pentagon officials.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29949



Contacts among Ansar al-Islam, Al Qaeda, and aides to the Iraqi President
By Scott Peterson
Staff Writer of the Christian Science Monitor
2 April 2002
While Ansar is gaining strength in numbers, new information is emerging that ties

the organization to both Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network and to Iraqi leader

Saddam Hussein. The Al Qaeda contacts allegedly stretch back to 1989, and

include regular recruiting visits by bin Laden cadres to Kurdish refugee camps in

Iran and to northern Iraq, as well as a journey by senior Ansar leaders to meet Al

Qaeda chiefs in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in the summer of 2000.
A 20-year veteran of Iraqi intelligence alleges the Iraqi government secretly

provided cash and training to Ansar . . .
http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/press/0418irqtr.htm



Asia Times
Bin Laden uses Iraq to plot new attacks
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
February 23, 2003
Similarly, bin Laden and the al-Qaeda have maintained close relations with Iraqi

intelligence since the early 1990s. In 1994, Iraqi intelligence chief Farooq al-

Hijazi visited the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, where bin Laden had established

a headquarters for al-Qaeda in 1991 to run businesses to provide it with income

and support. Farooq and bin Laden met. Also present was Dr Hasan Turabi, the

head of the Muslim Brotherhood organization of Sudan. (Bin Laden married one

of Turabi's nieces while he was in Sudan.)
This meeting was to prove helpful to both bin Laden and Iraqi leader Saddam

Hussein.
http://atimes.com/c-asia/DB23Ag02.html



Philippines' expulsion of Iraqi diplomat bolsters U.S. case that Iraq engaged in

terrorism
Thu Feb 13, 2003, 8:14 AM ET
By HRVOJE HRANJSKI, Associated Press Writer
MANILA, Philippines - The expulsion from the Philippines of an Iraqi diplomat

allegedly linked to the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group has bolstered the U.S.

case that Iraq is sponsoring international terrorism, Philippine officials said

Thursday.
The Abu Sayyaf has been loosely linked to Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s

al-Qaeda network. The Philippines has given Iraqi Consul Husham Husain until

Friday to leave the country. . . . Shortly after the outbreak of the Gulf War in

January 1991, Manila expelled then-Iraqi Charge d'Affaires Muwafak al-Ani after

an Iraqi man was killed and another wounded in the premature detonation of a

bomb believed intended for the U.S. cultural center in suburban Makati. The

planned bombing appeared to be an initial attempt by Iraq to carry out a threat of

global terrorism in response to the U.S.-led assault to force its military out of

Kuwait.
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?docid=1P1:71751371&dtype=0~0

&dinst=&author=&title=Expelled%20Iraqi%20Envoy%20Leaves%20

Philippines&date=02/14/2003&refid=ency_botnm



Saddam link to terror group
By Philip Smucker in Baghdad and Adrian Blomfield in Nairobi
(Filed: 17/04/2003)
London Telegraph
Saddam Hussein's regime was linked to an African Islamist terrorist group,

according to intelligence papers seen by The Telegraph. The documents provide

the first hard evidence of ties between Iraq and religious terrorism. . . The papers

show how Iraq's charge d'affaires in Nairobi, Fallah Hassan Al Rubdie, was in

discussion with the Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan guerrilla group with ties

to other anti-western Islamist organisations. . . In a letter to the head of the Iraqi

spy agency, a senior ADF operative outlined his group's efforts to set up an "

international mujahideen team". . . Nassir offered to "vet, recruit and send youth

to train for the jihad" at a centre in Baghdad, which he described as a "

headquarters for international holy warrior network". . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/17/wsad17.xml



'We'll pay all expenses to gain the knowledge from bin Laden and convey a

message back'
(Filed: 27/04/2003)
London Telegraph
Document 1, dated February 19, 1998
Marked "Top Secret and Urgent" in the margin and signed by "MDA", thought to

be the codename for the director of one of the intelligence sections within the

Mukhabarat.
"The envoy is a trusted confidant and known by them. According to the above

mediation we request official permission to call Khartoum station to facilitate the

travel arrangements for the above-mentioned person to Iraq. And that our body

carry all the travel and hotel expenses inside Iraq to gain the knowledge of the

message from bin Laden and to convey to his envoy an oral message from us to

bin Laden, the Saudi opposition leader, about the future of our relationship with

him, and to achieve a direct meeting with him." . . .
Document 2, dated February 23, 1998
Addressed to codename "M4/7", marked "Information M4 D1/3/4" and given the

number 375 by the Mukhabarat bureaucracy.
"The permission of Mr Deputy Director of Intelligence has been gained on 21

February for this operation, to secure a reservation for one of the intelligence

services guest's for one week in one of the first class hotels [the Al Mansour

Melia hotel in Baghdad]".
Signed by "M.D. 1/3", next to which is written February 22.
In the margin it is written that this has been done in co-ordination with the chief

of the Saudi section and that they write to extend the period of host for one more

week.
A note at the bottom of the page says "The envoy H arrived 5th March". Another

note mentions "room 414" next to the name, Mohammed F. Mohammed Ahmed.
Document 3, dated March 24, 1998
Written by hand and labelled number 736 and marked "Secret" in the margin.

This paper has been given the code number M 4/7/2 and is addressed to

codename "2/D1/3".
"Your information numbered D1/3/4/375 dated 23rd February 1998, we enclose

herewith the bill to host a guest in Mansour Melia Hotel. Please let it be known

and get the official permission to spend the amount and return the permission

back with our regards. Include the name of bills of the hotel." Signed by another

official with the codename M.M. 4/7
At the foot of this document there is another note, dated April 13, that says that

after 21 days:
"We have been informed by Saudi section chief [of the Iraqi Intelligence Service,

the Mukhabarat] that we get permission to send the amount and the permission is

sent to directorate accountant."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/27/walq127.

xml



Toronto Star
Apr. 27, 2003. 09:58 AM
Clumsy efforts hid bin Laden's name
MITCH POTTER
MIDDLE EAST BUREAU
As the mystery slowly unravelled, Amir's eyes grew wider. Finally, he leapt from

the bed in stunned disbelief. "What? What have you got," I asked.
"It says bin Laden. It says bin Laden," he bellowed, jumping in the air.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/

Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1051125568653&call_pageid=968332188492

&col=968793972154



Toronto Star
Star finds bin Laden-Iraq links
Three pages of documents point to the arrival of a messenger
MITCH POTTER
TORONTO STAR
Apr. 28, 2003. 01:34 PM
Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization and Saddam Hussein's regime shared

direct contact as early as 1998, according to top-secret Iraqi intelligence

documents obtained by the Star. . . .
The handwritten file, three pages in all, relates to the arrival of a secret envoy

sent by bin Laden to Iraq in March, 1998, apparently to establish a clandestine

relationship with the Iraqi regime.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/

Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1051125568646&call_pageid=1045739058633



FreeRepublic
Target: Safe Harbor – Bush’s case against Iraq is iron-clad post – 9/11
National Review Online ^ | September 6, 2002 | Larry Kudlow
The New Yorker's Jeffrey Goldberg reported brilliantly on Ansar al-Islam last

winter. This is a group of several hundred terrorists who were initially trained and

organized by bin Laden troops and co-financed by al Qaeda and Saddam

Hussein's secret police. . . .
And Ledeen points out that these groups are being aided and abetted by the "

terror masters" — namely Iran, Iraq, and Syria who foster, arm, and train these

terrorists, and Saudi Arabia, the financier. These are the safe-harboring states

who shield enemies of the United States.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/745761/posts



Jane’s Information Group
Who did it?
19 September 2001
. . . The Iraqis, who for several years paid smaller groups to do their dirty work,

were quick to discover the advantages of Al-Qaeda. . . .
http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/fr/fr010919_1_n.

shtml



Was bin Laden working with Iraq?
Boston Globe ^ | 9/25/01 | Laurie Mylroie
. . . Above all, a critical question has not been addressed: Was bin Laden alone

responsible for the carnage that occurred on Sept. 11, or was he working with an

enemy state, namely Iraq?As Rafael Eitan, former head of Israel's Mossad, stated,

''I have no doubt whatsoever that the
mastermind of this atrocity is none other than the Iraqi dictator.'' Former CIA

director Jim Woolsey has also fingered Iraq, and senior officials in the Pentagon

agree. . . .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/531970/posts



FreeRepublic
Iraq Tempts Bin Laden To Attack West
The Herald (UK)
By Ian Bruce
December 28, 1999
The world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, has been offered sanctuary in

Iraq if his worldwide terrorist network succeeds in carrying out a campaign of

high-profile attacks on the West . . .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/527008/posts



FreeRepublic
Seven Years Later: Was TWA Flight 800 a First Strike By Jihad Terrorists?
Capitalism Magazine ^ | July 17, 2003 | Scott Holleran
Skeptics questioned the investigation, including former Chairman of the Joint

Chiefs of Staff Thomas Moorer, a retired admiral, who added his name to those

who believe a missile destroyed the plane.
Moorer -- joined by Vernon Grose, a former member of the National

Transportation Safety Board -- expressed grave doubts about the investigation.

"All the evidence," Moorer said, "would point to a missile."
At the time of the crash, 270 eyewitnesses reported seeing a streak of light.

Nearly 100 eyewitnesses said that the streak of light *originated* from the earth's

surface, contrary to the CIA's animated simulation.
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/947966/posts



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[christie]

Great site. And a good article. It's really hard to simplify something that has so many tentacles.

The media gets away with their lies because most of this goes over everyone's head. Beyond Osama and Saddam, how many terrorist can the average American name. There are many groups independent and interconnected.

Maybe a primer on the cast of characters is needed.

Or maybe it's simply: They want us dead. It's us or them.

[christie]

Thanks for the links, especially the ones for the 1990s. Good stuff there. Will go through them and add to the chart.

[christie]

Salon.com has had some good articles from time to time. I like to throw them in the mix. Thanks.

[JLO]

Wow---nice job!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Susannah]

Good job, christie. My you've been busy.
I'm sending the link to my address list, but suggest you remove the repeat text in the following 1999 section:

When US officials were obliged to defend their decision to attack the al-Shifa plant, after the Aug 20 strike, they revealed an Iraqi link to al-Shifa, as reported, for example, in the NYT Aug 25. US officials al-Shifa, as reported, for example, in the NYT Aug 25.

[JLO]

Maybe so.

MAYBE NOT!

[christie]

Thanks. Done.

[hosepipe]

Nice work Christie..; FR gals rock....

[nutmeg]

ping!

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