Posted on 12/04/2005 10:55:22 AM PST by DogByte6RER
Saddam's Links to Al Qaeda By Roger Aronoff - December 2, 2005
* Even Hillary Clinton acknowledged the Saddam-Al Qaeda connection in her speech announcing support for the authorization of the use of force against Iraq in 2002.
It is frustrating to have to keep correcting the media. And it is even more frustrating when national television programs deliberately distort the evidence on a matter as important as Saddam Hussein's links to Al Qaeda. It's an old controversy but some in the media still insist on getting the facts wrong.
For example, the Veteran's Day edition of Chris Matthew's Hardball show on MSNBC-TV, in order to make President Bush out to be a serial liar, continued to ignore key evidence showing Saddam's links to Al Qaeda.
Reporter David Shuster, who left the Fox News Channel because it was too conservative, did a report showing Bush and Vice President Cheney making various statements which he said had all been cast into doubt.
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
No, this can't be right. al-Queerdo landed in Iraq the day after the American invasion, CNN said so.
Right...and Zarkawi was only in Baghdad long before we arrived in March of 2003 because he was wanting to buy some of those housepaint "factories" on wheels that Saddam had developed. Apparently, Zarkawi is such a humanitarian that he wanted to start his own "Habitat for Humanity".
Yeah...that's the ticket! (sarcasm..LOL)
Amazing how all these storys from the Clinton era have simply ceased to exist or are simply irrelevant because of the the 9-11 commission report in the MSM and liberals eyes.............Yet. They happened. They were reported. And nobody questioned them then.
Clinton first linked al Qaeda to Saddam
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040624-112921-3401r.htm
during President Clinton's eight years in office, there were at least two
official pronouncements of an alarming alliance between Baghdad and al Qaeda.
One came from William S. Cohen, Mr. Clinton's defense secretary. He cited an
al Qaeda-Baghdad link to justify the bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in
Sudan.
CNN 1999...
CNN 1999...
"Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has offered asylum to bin Laden"
http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9902/13/afghan.binladen/
ABC 1999....
1999 ABC News Report : The Osama - Hussein Connection
http://www.radioamerica.org/audio/MR_ABC-Osama-Hussein-connections.mp3
From "the Savage Republican" website.........
Thursday, June 30, 2005
More MSM reporting of WHAT???????
I have to admit, I have a lot of friends who have friends who have waaaayyyyyy too much time on their hands. Of course, if they didn't I would not have gotten the following information from said friends today.
The following was found via a Goggle and Lexus Nexus search of newspaper articles from 1999 - back during the Clinton administration! These are condensed summaries of the articles in question.
The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), December 28, 1999.
Iraq tempts bin Laden to attack WestExclusive. By: Ian Bruce, Geopolitics Editor.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 WestÝ ...
Now we are also facing the prospect of an unholy alliance between bin Laden and Saddam. The implications are terrifying.
"We might be looking at the most wanted man on the FBI's target list gaining access to chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons courtesy of Iraq's clandestine research programmes."
The U.S. intelligence community has been squeezing bin Laden's finances steadily for several years. His personal fortune of anything up to £500m has been whittled down to single figures ...
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U.S. Newswire, December 23, 1999.
Terrorism Expert Reveals Why Osama bin Laden has Declared War On America; Available for Comment in Light of Predicted Attacks.
... (author Yossef) Bodansky also reveals the relationship between bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and how the U.S. bombing of Iraq is "strengthening the hands of militant Islamists eager to translate their rage into violence and terrorism."Ý ....
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The Observer. December 19, 1999.
Sanctions reviewed in West as Saddam wields sword of Islam
The Iraqi dictator has rejected a UN deal to lift sanctions. The Western blockade, far from toppling the regime, has bolstered it. He's ditched the sunglasses and taken up the Koran to harness the fervour ofÝ fundamentalists.
By: Jason Burke, in Baghdad
... This time last year the U.S. claimed that another delegation had met Osama bin Laden, the alleged terrorist mastermind and tried to woo him to Iraq.
Senior officials claim that the Islamisation programme is an attempt to defuse the threat of Islamic militancy rather than encourage it ...
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United Press International. November 3, 1999, Wednesday, BC cycle.
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government has tried to prevent accused terror suspect Osama bin Laden from fleeing Afghanistan to either Iraq or Chechnya, Michael Sheehan, head of counter-terrorism at the State Department, told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee ...
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Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio). October 31, 1999. Sunday 1 STAR EDITION.
BIN LADEN SPOTTED AFTER OFFER TO LEAVEBy: From Beacon Journal wire services
DATELINE: JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN:
... The Taliban has since made it known through official channels that the likely destination is Iraq.
A Clinton administration official said bin Laden's request "falls far short" of the UN resolution that the Taliban deliver him for trial....
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The Kansas City Star. March 2, 1999, Tuesday.
International terrorism, a conflict without boundaries
By Rich Hood
... He (bin Laden)Ýhas 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....
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Los Angeles Times. February 23, 1999, Tuesday, Home Edition.SECTION: Metro; Part B; Page 6; Letters Desk.HEADLINE: OSAMA BIN LADEN
Where is Osama bin Laden (Feb. 14)? That should be the U.S.'s main priority. If as rumored he and Saddam Hussein are joining forces, it could pose a threat making Hitler and Mussolini seem like a sideshow....
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National Public Radio (NPR)MORNING EDITION (10:00 AM on ET)February 18, 1999.
THOUGH AFGHANISTAN HAS PROVIDED OSAMA BIN LADEN WITH SANCTUARY, IT IS UNCLEAR WHERE HE IS NOW.ANCHORS: BOB EDWARDSREPORTERS: MIKE SHUSTER
... There have also been reports in recent months that bin Laden might have been considering moving his operations to Iraq. Intelligence agencies in several nations are looking into that. According to Vincent Cannistraro, a former chief of CIA counterterrorism operations, a senior Iraqi intelligence official, Farouk Hijazi(ph), sought out bin Laden in December and invited him to come to Iraq.
Mr. VINCENT CANNISTRARO (Former Chief of CIA Counterterrorism Operations): Farouk Hijazi, who was the Iraqi ambassador in Turkey ... known through sources in Afghanistan, members of Osama's entourage let it be known that the meeting had taken place.
SHUSTER: Iraq's contacts with bin Laden go back some years, to at least 1994, when, according to one U.S. government source, Hijazi met him when bin Laden lived in Sudan. According to Cannistraro, Iraq invited bin Laden to live in Baghdad to be nearer to potential targets of terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. There is a wide gap between bin Laden's fundamentalism and Saddam Hussein's secular dictatorship. But some experts believe bin Laden might be tempted to live in Iraq because of his reported desire to obtain chemical or biological weapons. CIA director George Tenet referred to that in recent testimony....
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Agence France Presse. February 17, 1999.
Saddam plans to use bin Laden against Kuwait, Saudi: opposition
Iraq's President Saddam Hussein plans to use alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden's network to carry out his threats against Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, an Iraqi opposition figure charged on Wednesday."If the ... Jaber, a member of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), said Iraq had "offered to shelter bin Laden under the precondition that he carry out strikes on targets in neighbouring countries."
... Islamic fundamentalist bin Laden, who has gone missing from his base in Afghanistan, would never seek refuge in secular Iraq on ideological grounds. "I think bin Laden would keep quiet or fight to the death rather than seek asylum in Iraq," the London-based dissident, who asked not to be named, told AFP last week.....
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Deutsche Presse-Agentur. February 17, 1999, Wednesday, BC Cycle
Opposition group says bin Laden in Iraq
DATELINE: Kuwait City
An Iraqi opposition group claimed in a published report Wednesday that Islamic militant Osama bin Laden is in Iraq from where he plans to launch a campaign of terrorism against Baghdad's Gulf neighbours.
The claim was made by Bayan Jabor, spokesman for the Teheran-based Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).
Bin Laden "recently settled in Iraq at the invitation of Saddam Hussein in exchange for directing strikes against targets in neighbouring countries," Jabor told the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai al- Aam ... Taleban leaders in Afghanistan, where he had been living, said they lost track of him. Media reports have speculated he sought refuge in Chechnya, Somalia, Iraq, or with a non-Taliban group in Afghanistan.
Jabor, who was interviewed in Damascus, Syria, said Iraq began extending invitations to bin Laden six months ago, shortly after the United States bombed his suspected terrorist training camps in Afghanistan after linking him with the August 7 bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and in Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania.
The United States indicted Bin Laden for the embassy bombings and has offered a five million dollar reward for information leading to his capture. Bin Laden's disappearance has coincided with stepped up threats by Iraq against neighbours Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Turkey for allowing the United States and Britain to use their air bases to carry out air patrols over two "no-fly" zones over northern and southern Iraq ....
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From CNN September 12, 2001 - LONDON, England -- Leaders of Middle Eastern nations, including U.S. foes Libya and Iran, have condemned the terror attacks on the U.S. -- with one notable exception.
Saddam Hussein's Iraq said the United States deserved Tuesday's attacks in New York and Washington as the fruits "of its crimes against humanity."
Under the headline "America burns," the official newspaper Al-Iraq said that "what happened in the United States yesterday is a lesson for all tyrants, oppressors and criminals."
Overnight an official Iraqi statement said: "The American cowboys are reaping the fruit of their crimes against humanity."
Good ol' Uncle Saddam. What a kind old man.
*snicker*
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7 Jun Ten People Arrested in Milan for Supporting Al Qaida
http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_52122/world-news/AL-QAIDA-10-people-arrested-in-Milan-for-supporting-Al-Qaida/
Police in Milan on Thursday arrested a group of people who allegedly provided logistical and financial support to the al-Qaida-linked Salafist Group for Call and Combat, Italian officials said.
About 10 people had been arrested, according to a police statement, but officials said the operation in the northern Italian city was still ongoing and it was not yet known how many suspects had been taken into custody...
7 Jun London Link to Italian al-Qaeda Raid
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1898631.ece
...[i]n a statement, the Metropolitan Police said that from 1997 to 1999, Mr Ignaoua “convinced and organised volunteers to undergo military training in Afghanistan for Jihad with the use of false documentation”.
His arrest was co-ordinated with the Italian police, which this morning carried out simultaneous raids in Milan against a suspected al-Qaeda cell. Italian detectives said they are holding nine terror suspects, all of them Tunisians, who are believed to be members of the North African regional branch of Osama bin Laden’s extremist network...
7 Jun U.S. Forces Kill Two Al Qaida in Raid
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21285044.shtml
U.S. forces in Iraq killed two members of al-Qaida and detained 10 others Wednesday during raids targeting a bomb-making operation in Baghdad...
7 Jun Pentagon Says Al Qaeda Leader Captured in East Africa
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-terrorjun07,1,2044582.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
...[h]e was identified as Abdullahi Sudi Arale.
“We believe him to be an extremely dangerous member of the Al Qaeda network,” said Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman.
Whitman said Arale was suspected of acting as a courier between Al Qaeda in East Africa and Al Qaeda in Pakistan and helping the Africans get weapons and explosives...
7 Jun Saudi Arrests 11 Al Qaeda Members
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/07/saudi.arrest/
Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry announced Thursday it had arrested 11 al Qaeda members in the span of 48 hours who were responsible for financing and encouraging terrorism. A ministry statement quoting a senior ministry official said the detainees were wanted terrorists in Saudi Arabia, that their assets have been frozen and an investigation into the incident is ongoing. On Tuesday the ministry announced it had arrested three senior al Qaeda members responsible for recruiting youths via the internet and encouraging attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities...
7 Jun Iraqi Police Capture Local Al Qaida Leader North of Baghdad
http://english.people.com.cn/200706/07/eng20070607_381934.html
Iraqi security forces captured the local leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq in eastern Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, and wounded four of his guards early on Wednesday, a provincial police said on Thursday...
Iraqi security forces have been tipped off by residents of Albu Ajil suburb, 5 km to the east of Tikrit, the source said...
6 Jun U.S. Forces Kill Al Qaeda Leader in Baghdad
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2007/06/06/afx3794120.html
...’Yesterday, coalition forces killed a terrorist leader and detained three other suspected terrorists during an operation here in Baghdad to disrupt another network bombing there,’ [BG Bergner] said.
‘Mohammed Mahmud ‘Abd Kadhim Hussein al-Mashadani, also known as Abu Abdullah, was the terrorist killed during the operation,’ ...
...[t]he death is the third reported killing of an Al-Qaeda street captain since last week, when some Sunni nationalist insurgents once opposed to the US military fell out with Al-Qaeda’s Islamist extremists and changed sides.
6 Jun Suspected Al Qaeda Leader, 17 Others Detained
http://www.blackanthem.com/News/Allies_20/Suspected_al-Qaeda_leader_17_others_detained7317.shtml
...[n]orth of Taji, Coalition Forces captured an alleged key leader in the Rusafa vehicle-borne improvised explosive device network. Coalition Forces also detained another suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist on the scene.
Based on information from a suspected terrorist detained May 29, Coalition Forces captured an alleged al-Qaeda facility manager who operates a safe house southwest of Tarmiyah.
In Mosul, Coalition Forces raided two buildings and detained two suspected terrorists, one of whom is allegedly the assistant to a senior terrorist leader captured May 29...
Thanks for the referenced links!
Check out this expose by Deroy Murdock. It is several years old, but it is (IMO) an excellent case connecting Saddam Hussein to terrorism. This lays out the case (PRE-WAR) against Saddam Hussein and justifies to me why we are in Iraq and why we need to finish up in Iraq in the right way. I believe that most of this info still holds up even now.
I always reference this article to people who have an interest in Iraq’s connections to terror or to those who deny that Saddam had any connections to terrorism.
The article is in pdf format so you can save it and print it out for others to read.
“Saddam Hussein’s Philanthropy of Terror” by Deroy Murdock.
Link over to:
http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/murdocksaddamarticle.pdf
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