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DOES CNSNEWS.COM HAVE THE STORY OF THE YEAR?
National review ^ | October 4, 2004 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 10/04/2004 10:08:32 AM PDT by CT CONSERVATIVE

CNS News is a nice little right-of-center web-based wire service operating in Alexandria, Virginia. They seem like pretty solid reporters, and not likely to bite on, say, memos that are supposed to be from an Air National Guard office from 1972 that were created on Microsoft Word.

So it's kind of surprising to see this report:

Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders. One of the Iraqi memos contains an order from Saddam for his intelligence service to support terrorist attacks against Americans in Somalia. The memo was written nine months before U.S. Army Rangers were ambushed in Mogadishu by forces loyal to a warlord with alleged ties to al Qaeda.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2004election; alqaeda; alqaida; anthrax; antiamericanism; biologicalweapons; chemicalweapons; cnsnews; cnsnewscom; election2004; iraq; iraqwar; memos; mustardgas; nationalsecurity; octobersurprise; proterrorism; saddam; saddamhussein; saddamswmd; smokinggun; somalia; terroristgroups; terroroperations; un; unfailures; unitednations; waronterror; waronterrorism; wmd; wot
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1 posted on 10/04/2004 10:08:32 AM PDT by CT CONSERVATIVE
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE
momentum.....building.

indications of major seismic event...

2 posted on 10/04/2004 10:13:58 AM PDT by dasboot (<img src="XXX">)
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If this is true:

1- It needs to be checked out 110%
2- It needs to be ran through as much "main stream" media as possible
3- Bush needs to do everything short of saying "see, I told you so" to get the point across that Saddam wasn't the defanged snake the left made him out to be.


3 posted on 10/04/2004 10:14:00 AM PDT by bobd400 (I hope this is right)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

THIS HAS GOT TO BE IT!


4 posted on 10/04/2004 10:15:15 AM PDT by mrplind (Heavy on the Mister)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

BTTT


5 posted on 10/04/2004 10:16:25 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: mrplind

Is this the October surprise?


6 posted on 10/04/2004 10:16:39 AM PDT by ProudFossil
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

Solid. Excellent.


7 posted on 10/04/2004 10:16:49 AM PDT by Judith Anne (First we were digital brownshirts then we were pajamahadeen, now we're the piranha of the internet)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

Watch, they'll blame Bush for not discolssing this sooner hoping for an October suprise. The CIA hates Bush, they let this out so that Kerry isn't killed by offical release.


8 posted on 10/04/2004 10:17:02 AM PDT by tort_feasor ( anti-Semitism is not a lifestyle choice)
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To: mrplind

tip of iceberg?


9 posted on 10/04/2004 10:17:05 AM PDT by dasboot (<img src="XXX">)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

Interesting that that same page says that Michael Moore his own bad self turned down the "Killian" memos - they weren't considered reliable.


10 posted on 10/04/2004 10:17:55 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: tort_feasor

I'd think a leak meant to innoculate JK would have gone to NYT..


11 posted on 10/04/2004 10:20:04 AM PDT by dasboot (<img src="XXX">)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE
I hope this is what Karl Rove was talking about "a few suprises".

Allow me to surmise that this was deliberatly leaked to a 'friendly' news source to ensure release rather than have the MSM poison the story first.

Now this story will bubble under the surface picking up momentum like the magna under Mount St. Hellens until it finally "Blows".

12 posted on 10/04/2004 10:20:13 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Can you say "smoking gun" and "October surprise," boys & girls?

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

13 posted on 10/04/2004 10:21:10 AM PDT by mhking
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If you go on to read the article it appears to be cynical of the "documents". I'm not saying it isn't worth looking into...but caution is important here.


14 posted on 10/04/2004 10:21:36 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

Poor paper will probably burn to the ground soon after this report.

WE all know there is NO WMD anywhere in the world but America, and those poor terrorists are just defending themselves from us EVIL Bush supporters!

sarcasm/off


15 posted on 10/04/2004 10:21:42 AM PDT by GottaLuvAkitas1 (Ronald Reagan is the TRUE "Father Of Our Country".)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

But we knew that all along...hehe


16 posted on 10/04/2004 10:21:59 AM PDT by donnab
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To: Semper Paratus

popcorn...no doze...pj's: check.


17 posted on 10/04/2004 10:22:19 AM PDT by dasboot (<img src="XXX">)
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To: dasboot

But this way, we aren't supposed to suspect the alterior motive.


18 posted on 10/04/2004 10:23:13 AM PDT by tort_feasor ( anti-Semitism is not a lifestyle choice)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

CT, I would email this to Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, Hewitt and Fox News. They probably have it already, but just to make sure.


19 posted on 10/04/2004 10:23:14 AM PDT by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

This news and Kerry's disire to give Iran nuclear fuel could be his undoing :)


20 posted on 10/04/2004 10:24:05 AM PDT by Starhopper (Remember. For evil to conquer,good men need to do nothing.)
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