Posted on 04/01/2005 8:13:29 PM PST by bubman
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WASHINGTON - (AP) -- U.S. officials say one terrorism suspect imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay is a former Iraqi soldier and al Qaeda member who plotted with an Iraqi intelligence agent in August 1998 to attack the American and other foreign embassies in Pakistan with chemical weapons.
There is no public record of such an attempt being made, although the U.S. Embassy staff in Islamabad was reduced that month amid heightened security concerns after the Aug. 7 truck-bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. On Aug. 20, 1998, the United States responded with cruise-missile attacks on al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and a target in Sudan.
The Iraqi, whose identity is being concealed by the Pentagon on privacy grounds, is further described as a ''trusted agent'' of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and a member of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. He was arrested in Pakistan in July 2002.
Those accusations were contained in a two-page ''summary of evidence'' presented to the Iraqi for his appearance before a Combatant Status Review Board at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba late last year. The evidence was meant to convince the three-member review board -- which has heard all 558 detainee cases at Guantánamo Bay -- that the government properly classified him as an ``enemy combatant.''
As a matter of policy, the government will not disclose which of the 558 detainees were among the 38 the review boards determined were not enemy combatants.
Self ping
Wait! I thought that there was no connection between Al Qaida and Iraq!
And....I thought Saddam DIDN'T have WMDs?
This is how dangerous the degenerate socialist MSM is. They will lie to further their own goals, no matter the threat that it poses to the US.
One day America will awaken....some huge event will make people realize that the Enemy Within must be dealt with.
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