Unmasked men - Iraqi intelligence documents connect Saddam to terror leaders, al-Zarqawi, bin Laden

World Magazine ^ | October 02, 2004 | Mindy Belz

[streetpreacher]

World Magazine is an independent Christian publication. I'm surprised you haven't heard of it because it is well-known outside of Christian circles. I've seen it in most University library periodical sections and bookstores.

[BenLurkin]

Don't be surprised at my ignorance. I make no claim to erudition.

[streetpreacher]

One entry found for erudition.

Main Entry: er·u·di·tion
Pronunciation: "er-&-'di-sh&n, "er-y&-
Function: noun
: extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books : profound, recondite, or bookish learning
synonym see KNOWLEDGE

Well considering I had to look up the word, I guess I can "make no claim to erudition" either.

[tuesday afternoon]

bump

[MeekOneGOP]

Unmasked men - Iraqi intelligence documents connect
Saddam to terror leaders, al-Zarqawi, bin Laden

Excerpt:

COVER STORY: Leaked Iraqi intelligence documents connect Saddam Hussein to prominent terror leaders, including Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Osama bin Laden. Only question is, when will John Kerry change his stump speech? | by Mindy Belz

Walid Phares thumbed a sheaf of documents, all in Arabic and nearly all bearing the spherical slogan of Iraq's intelligence service, or Mukhabarat. The Middle East scholar, a Lebanese-American Christian who speaks four languages and is a recognized expert on Islamic militants and terrorism, has interrupted a sick day (prior engagement with a root canal) in order to evaluate 42 just-leaked intelligence documents confiscated by U.S. forces in Iraq.

Moistening his finger and translating out loud, Mr. Phares read from the pages in his third-floor office in downtown Washington, where he is taking a year off from teaching at Florida Atlantic University to serve as senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He didn't notice as his narrating voice rose with incredulity. Finishing, he rapped the papers with his fingers and concluded: "This is a watershed. This is big."

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[Grampa Dave]

Thanks!

There is a whole lot of good October stuff coming out for our side.

[lesser_satan]

nice article, but a magazine piece dated october 2 ain't breaking news on october 10.

Am I missing something here? This story is dated 10-2, but makes reference in past tense to 10-4 and 10-6. The CNS story is dated 10-4. What the heck is going on?

[browardchad]

an unnamed "senior government official" who is not a political appointee

A careerist. Well, if nothing else, it's refreshing to see one of these trying to get the truth out, instead of leaking leaking national security info to the New York Times.

[Cindy]

CNS NEWS.com: "EXCLUSIVE: SADDAM POSSESSED WMD, HAD EXTENSIVE TERROR TIES" by Scott Wheeler (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "THE SOURCE OF THE DOCUMENTS A senior government official who is not a political appointee provided CNSNews.com with copies of the 42 pages of Iraqi Intelligence Service documents. The originals, some of which were hand-written and others typed, are in Arabic. CNSNews.com had the papers translated into English by two individuals separately and independent of each other.") (October 4, 2004) (Read More...)

[justshutupandtakeit]

More evidence of the abaolute abdication of the RATmedia to its duty to search for the truth.

This propaganda arm of the democRAT party must be destroyed for the good of mankind.

[justshutupandtakeit]

That is not true. Since when has the RATmedia depended upon truth for their attacks on the President? NEVER. It lies with every breath and has refused on almost every occassion to allow even a glimmer of the truth to be carried over their programs.

This media is the greatest enemy of mankind that exists. IT lives to lie and can ONLY live by the lie. Truth affects it like sunlight does a vampire.

[Txsleuth]

I'm sensing a lot of skepticism about this but it has been posted at CNS.news for a week - you would think if it didn't have at least a little truth, they would have taken it down by now. Also, Whalid Phares has been on Fox a lot lately and seems pretty credible to me. Besides, all we need is this news out there, after all the 9/11 commission and the Senate Intelligence commission both agreed that there was a connection between al-queda and Saddam. The Bush campaign just needs to repeat this over and over.

[MeekOneGOP]

Yeah! :^D

[ClancyJ]

Ok, so we do nothing. No use to post all these articles, no use to send campaign funds, no use to even vote - it might harm Kerry's campaign.

When are we going to fight the MSM? When is FR going to jump in and do the news gathering and publishing that the MSM defaults on?

Now we are hearing there are problems with Fox going liberal - our sole hope in America.

What now? We just give up?

Or, do we start thinking and come up with a way to fight back. How many people could we reach with all our email lists? What about a daily summary of world articles (not mentioned on MSM) that will be sent out to the email lists?

Or some other effort - anything that can tell the MSM and the liberals that this is America and we WILL HAVE FREE ELECTIONS, WE WILL HAVE FAIRNESS IN CANDIDATES, WE WILL NOT LISTEN TO PROPAGANDA.

We have the internet, we have FR, we have smart people, we are being spoon fed a presidential candidate, we are being lied to, we are seeing our freedom and constitution stolen from us.

How do we use what we have to counter what the MSM is doing to us here in America? Do we spend all our effort complaining about it or do we take action and counter it?

Do we write complaints to the MSM against their actions as they use their power to put the superpower into the hands of liberals, socialists and the media? Just what good will that do? They know full well what their goal is and it is not to listen to us.

[international american]

If this is true, it could tilt the election. I just wonder if it IS true, and if so, why has at least Fox jumped on it?

[lesser_satan]

I would suggest FReeping center-right blogs and talk radio. Except for making mention of it the day it broke, they seem to be hesitant to cover it, and, after Rathergate, I can't blame them. I have sent a lot of emails, but to no effect (yet). If we could deluge them with emails from many different people, it might be different. If this is going to have any effect on the election, it has to get started NOW.

[Rockitz]

This was originally a 4 October exclusive at CNSNews.com

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\\SpecialReports\\archive\\200410\\SPE20041004a.html

[TexKat]

That is not true. Since when has the RATmedia depended upon truth for their attacks on the President?

I do not think I referred to the RATmedia in my post. I was not even thinking in that respect.

It is my belief that our government would have divulge this info prior to (CNS) or other media outlets, especially with the recent Duelfer report, and the talk show rounds by Iraqi scientist Dr. Mahdi Obeidi, author of The Bomb in my Garden, in the past couple of weeks.

[sullivan-fan]

Do these documents pass the global test?

[sullivan-fan]

Do these documents pass the global test?