Iraq's Complicity in Terrorism

WorldandI.com ^ | Issue Date: 6 / 2004 | Laurie Mylroie

[Enchante]

Seems rather important to the subject of "what the 9/11 Commission didn't report..... I couldn't find this in FreeRepublic archives -- does anyone know why this has not been posted here before (so far as I can tell via search)???

[petercooper]

[popdonnelly]

Clarke left the Administration knowing, after September 11th, that his time was up. That gave him plenty of free time to direct his own guilt at the Bush Administration. Clarke is as much to blame for the pre-9/11 failure as anyone.

[Txsleuth]

I have read quite a few articles by Laurie Mylroie...she knows her stuff...

[Boundless]

Plus, if the overall Atta timeline is back on the table as
a result of the recent revelations, then Prague is back on
the table, bringing Iraq back in as well.

We need a Commission that will actually look at the
evidence, and not just prop up that house of cards
called the Clinton Legacy.

[popdonnelly]

Salman Pak would be a great place to do a documentary. Complete with interviews with people who worked there.

[popdonnelly]

We discussed Atta and Prague on another thread. I'm pretty well convinced it was Atta meeting with the Iraqi security agent. He could have gotten a fake passport, and there's no other trace of him on the day the meeting took place.

[Enchante]

"Plus, if the overall Atta timeline is back on the table as a result of the recent revelations, then Prague is back on the table, bringing Iraq back in as well"

Exactly! Prague and everything to do with Iraq pretty much got brushed aside, and it is essential that a far more thorough and proper investigation be done now.

[John Valentine]

Clarke is as much to blame for the pre-9/11 failure as anyone.

Wrong. Clarke is MORE to blame.

[mission9]

When I ask a liberal the simple question - Do you think there would have been a second attack on the World Trade Center if the first attack had not happened? They recoil like a vampire shown a cross. Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind was an Iraqi agent, and everyone knew it at the time. I specifically remember discussing it at the time.

[John Valentine]

Maybe this particular itme hasn't been posted. I don't know. But I have posted a number of Laurie Mylroie articles along the same lines myself.

And, I agree, if it is now known that Atta had entered the Unied States in 2000 on false documents, there is no reason to hold to the truly dumb position that he didn't go to Prague in 2001 just because he didn't check out with the INS.

[driftless]

Mylroie and Steven Hayes from the Weekly Standard have both done quite of research on Iraq's role in terrorism and alliance with Al-Qaeda. They both have presented convincing documentation that Iraq was neck-deep in terrorist activities directed against the U.S. Jayna Davis is a another terrorism researcher who believes that Iraq was involved in the Oklahoma City attack. Are all these researchers liars or incompetents? I think not.

The fact is the Clinton admin and a slew of leftist shills are unwilling to stare the truth in the face. And the Bush admin has not been bold enough in presenting the facts to the American public. The public believes the left's version because the left has been the shrillest. It's time for the Bush admin to make more noise about Iraq's terrorist actions against us.

[John Valentine]

When I ask a liberal the simple question - Do you think there would have been a second attack on the World Trade Center if the first attack had not happened?

Here's another real dumb question to ask your liberal nitwit friends: "Do you think there would have been a second attack on the World Trade Center if the first attack had worked?"

[Enchante]

"if it is now known that Atta had entered the Unied States in 2000 on false documents, there is no reason to hold to the truly dumb position that he didn't go to Prague in 2001 just because he didn't check out with the INS"

One thing that amazes me in such discussions is the frequent assumption that we actually can know and have records of all such comings and goings, when basic spy and terror tradecraft can arrange all sorts of false identities, passports, modes of transit, etc. The only thing that would be an ironclad 'alibi' against Atta being in Prague for such a meeting would be.... something that's truly an 'alibi' such as the most tangible proof that he was actually doing something very specific here in the USA on the same date and time..... but these claims that "oh, we don't have proof that he left the USA at that time" are just so stupid, it's mind-boggling.

[BenLurkin]

Yet senior figures at the New York branch of the FBI, the lead investigative agency, including its director, Jim Fox, believed that Baghdad was responsible for the [1993 WTC] attack. As Fox wrote, "Although we are unable to say with certainty the Iraqis were behind the bombing, that is certainly the theory accepted by most of the veteran investigators"

[the Real fifi]

Mylroie has written several books, and you might be interested in reading them.Among them are these, directly relevant to this matter:
.The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks: A Study of Revenge
by: Laurie Mylroie
November 15, 2001


.Bush vs. the Beltway : How the CIA and the State Department Tried to Stop the War on Terror
by: Laurie Mylroie
August 01, 2003



Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf
by: Laurie Mylroie

[the Real fifi]

ee this.http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=2850

[roses of sharon]

Time mag, Sept 24, 2001, Special Edition, page 43

Sen Bob Graham, chairman of the Senate intell committee, says there is "some evidence" that Saddam was involved, evidence that is "credible enough that you can't take Iraq off the list."

I have always wondered what that evidence was.

[rdcorso]

One of the biggest mistakes that this administration made leading up to 9/11 was following the advice of Richard Clark.The guy was a total failure who lacked the wisdom needed to fight terrorism.His actions following 9/11 showed us exactly what type of character he was.For nearly ten years we had a political whore in one of our top anti terror positions.He knew nothing about battling terror,instead he was an expert in ass kissing and back stabbing.

[gov_bean_ counter]

we are unable to say with certainty

Stuff like this makes me want to puke. Every day many of us on this forum gather data and make determinations knowing we don't have 100% of the facts. However we will have enough information to make an assessment with a certain degree of confidence based on the information mined. I have wondered over the past several years what level of data would be enough for some of these CIA/FBI weenies to be able so say anything with even reasonable certainty.