Posted on 01/13/2006 9:11:24 AM PST by neverdem
Interesting. Thanks.
Bookmarked. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did anyone see the report that Zawahiri was possibly killed yesterday?
I can smell this one coming: This story's as good as spiked right now. Newsweek? Yeah, right.
But how can he trust the papers? Liars, like "Curveball", have burned him before.
Thanks for the links and text.
Man, I hope you're right. The non-stop "No Connection!" chorus has been like a four year root canal.
The facts are everywhere. Put them together and end this lie, now.
You're welcome.
We know that al-Qaeda was in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Somalia, Libya, Mauritania, Kashmir, Malaysia, Indonesia, The Phillippines, etc.
Does your friend contend that the only Muslim country where al-Qaeda was not was Iraq?
I have been on the Alito thread all day...and on the strike in Pakistan all evening...so I just saw this thread.
I just read the article...and my heart is pounding so hard right now.
It says that a convenience store clerk from Arlington, Texas was arrested recently? ....
And, I remember that one of the 1st WTC bombing suspects that was found guilty lived in Arlington, Texas...
BTW...I am sitting at my computer in Arlington, Texas right now....GACK!
Oh really?
MARCH 19, 2002 Tuesday : (TENET TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS, DOES NOT RULE OUT STATE SPONSORSHIP OF 9/11 ATTACKS) CIA Director George J. Tenet, testifying before Congress last week, pointedly refused to rule out the possibility that Iraq or Iran may have been involved in the September 11 terrorist attacks on America. "There is no doubt that there may have been contacts and linkages to the al Qaeda organization," Mr. Tenet said when asked about Iraqi ties with Osama bin Laden's terror network. It "would be a mistake to dismiss the possibility of state sponsorship, whether Iranian or Iraqi" in connection with the attacks, the CIA director told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. "The distinctions between Sunni and Shia [Islamic denominations] that have traditionally divided terrorist groups are not distinctions you should make anymore, because there is a common interest against the United States and its allies in this region, and they will seek capability wherever they can get it," Mr. Tenet said. ---- "Still whitewashing Saddam , " The Washington Times, EDITORIAL , March 25, 2002
OCTOBER 7, 2002 : (CI A DIRECTOR TENET'S LETTER TO BOB GRAHAM, CHAIRMAN OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE) Regarding Senator Bayh's Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana question of Iraqi links to al-Qa'ida. Senators could draw from the following points for unclassified discussions:
Our understanding of the relationship between Iraq and al-Qa'ida is evolving and is based on sources of varying reliability. Some of the information we have received comes from detainees, including some of high rank.
We have solid reporting of senior level contacts between Iraq and al-Qa'ida going back a decade.
Credible information indicates that Iraq and al-Qa'ida have discussed safe haven and reciprocal nonaggression.
Since Operation Enduring Freedom, we have solid evidence of the presence in Iraq of al-Qa'ida members, including some that have been in Baghdad.
We have credible reporting that al-Qa'ida leaders sought contacts in Iraq who could help them acquire W.M.D. capabilities. The reporting also stated that Iraq has provided training to al-Qa'ida members in the areas of poisons and gases and making conventional bombs. Iraq's increasing support to extremist Palestinians coupled with growing indications of a relationship with al-Qa'ida, suggest that Baghdad's links to terrorists will increase, even absent U.S. military action."- Source : letter from CIA director Tenet to Bob Graham, chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Oct 7, 2002 via 34 posted on 03/23/2004 10:30:34 PM PST by kcvl
FEBRUARY 11, 2003 : (WASHINGTON, DC : SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE HEARING : CIA DIRECTOR GEORGE TENET ON THE LINKAGE BETWEEN IRAQ AND AL QAEDA, INCLUDING IRAQ'S TRAINING OF AL QAEDA PERSONNEL IN DOCUMENT FORGERY, POISONS, GASSES & IN BOMBMAKING; TENET ALSO DISCUSSES THE DECISION OF RAISING OF THE TERROR THREAT LEVEL TO ORANGE AND THE PRESENCE OF AL QAEDA IN IRAQ AND IRAN) Senior Bush administration officials intensified the effort to make the case for military action against Saddam Hussein today, with testimony by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and the director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, linking Iraq and Al Qaeda. ...The hearing, an annual assessment of global threats, centered on Al Qaeda, Iraq and North Korea.... ...The administration's attempt to tie Iraq to Al Qaeda also included the most explicit public statement yet by Mr. Tenet, who told the Senate intelligence committee that intelligence officials had unearthed powerful evidence showing a connection.
Mr. Tenet's testimony was especially noteworthy because some Pentagon and White House officials had privately [* My note as in the usual "anonymous" way the press likes] complained that the C.I.A. was too reluctant to conclude there was an Iraq-Qaeda link.
Today Mr. Tenet said Iraq is "harboring" senior members of the Qaeda network like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who, Mr. Tenet said, assembled a terror cell last year from a base of operations in Baghdad.....
For Mr. Tenet, who sat silently behind Mr. Powell on Feb. 5 when the secretary presented the Bush administration's case against Iraq to the United Nations Security Council, the hearing today presented the country's intelligence chief with his first opportunity to publicly assess the intelligence on Saddam Hussein's leadership.
Mr. Tenet said the C.I.A. had carefully worded its accusations about Iraq, but he strongly supported the Bush administration's conclusion that an Iraq-Qaeda link had been firmly established even as some European officials, and some intelligence analysts within his own agency, have expressed skepticism about whether the information showed a direct Iraqi tie to Al Qaeda.
"Iraq has in the past provided training in document forgery and bombmaking to Al Qaeda," Mr. Tenet said. "It has also provided training in poisons and gases to two Al Qaeda associates. One of these associates characterized the relationship he forged with Iraqi officials as successful."
Mr. Tenet seemed to be trying to rebut skeptics among the allies and within his own agency. "This information is based on a solid foundation of intelligence," he said. "It comes to us from credible and reliable sources. Much of it is corroborated by multiple sources, and it is consistent with the pattern of denial and deception exhibited by Saddam Hussein over the past 12 years."...
Mr. Tenet said Mr. bin Laden's followers appeared to focus their terror planning on specific regions. "The information we have points to plots aimed at targets on two fronts — in the United States and on the Arabian peninsula," he said. "It points to plots timed to occur as early as the end of the hajj, which occurs late this week."
"And it points to plots that could include the use of a radiological dispersion device as well as poisons and chemicals," Mr. Tenet added, referring to devices like a "dirty bomb" that detonates with a conventional explosive, throwing radioactive material into the air. ... In his testimony, Mr. Tenet seemed to agree, defending the decision last Friday by the Bush administration to ratchet up the official threat level to Code Orange, saying it was based "not on idle chatter on the part of terrorists and their associates."
"It is the most specific we have seen, and it is consistent with both our knowledge of Qaeda doctrine and our knowledge of plots this network — and particularly its senior leadership — has been working on for years," Mr. Tenet said. "The intelligence community is working directly, and in real time, with friendly services overseas and with our law enforcement colleagues here at home to disrupt and capture specific individuals who may be part of this plot."
Mr. Tenet offered no further specifics about the plot, but his testimony reflected the rapidly rising tensions around the world in a period when the United States continues preparations for possible military action in Iraq, North Korea has threatened to resume its nuclear program and Iran has disclosed that it is nearly ready to enrich uranium to fuel its nuclear energy program.
"We see disturbing signs that Al Qaeda has established a presence in both Iran and Iraq," Mr. Tenet said. "In addition, we are concerned that Al Qaeda continues to find refuge in the hinterlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan." - "Top U.S. Officials Tell Lawmakers of Iraq-Qaeda Ties," By DAVID JOHNSTON, February 12, 2003 , http://iraqfoundation.org/news/2003/bfeb/12_ties.html
Fall victim to the MSM's dynamic duo, did you?
MARCH 20, 2002 Wednesday : (MAJOR PRESS OUTLETS NY TIMES & WASHINGTON POST DOWNPLAY CIA DIRECTOR TENET'S COMMENTS ON POSSIBLE STATE SPONSORSHIP OF 9/11 ATTACKS BY EXCLUDING THEM IN REPORTING OF HIS TESTIMONY) The CIA director's [Tuesday ] comments on possible state sponsorship of the September 11 attacks, reported in a separate story on the front page of this newspaper on Wednesday, didn't make it into accounts of his testimony published in The Washington Post or the New York Times that same day. It isn't difficult to see why this happens; many people in the mainstream media don't want to face the reality that Iraq or Iran may have had a hand in the butchery which took place on September 11. If it turns out that either of these regimes were involved, it would virtually ensure a vigorous U.S. military response against Tehran or Baghdad. That's a reality that many folks on the political left (and a few on the right) want to avoid at just about any cost. ---- "Still whitewashing Saddam , " The Washington Times, EDITORIAL , March 25, 2002
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,180123,00.html
Secret Al Qaeda Papers?
Thursday, December 29, 2005
This is a partial transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," December 28, 2005, that has been edited for clarity.
MIKE GALLAGHER, GUEST CO-HOST: The Department of Defense has denied repeated requests from The Weekly Standard magazine to release unclassified documents recovered in post-war Iraq. The documents may offer new details about Saddam Hussein and his regime in the years before the war. The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes has been leading the charge to get the documents. And he joins us now live.
Good evening, Stephen. Nice to have you with us.
STEPHEN HAYES, THE WEEKLY STANDARD: Hey, Mike. How are you?
GALLAGHER: I'm doing great. You know, you've been criticized a lot for your determined efforts to try to get these documents released. You maintain that these documents would establish a link and, in fact, would show that Saddam Hussein supported Al Qaeda. Why in the world wouldn't the Bush administration want those documents to be revealed, too?
HAYES: Well, and why would anybody criticize an effort to expose the world to documents that Saddam Hussein's regime created, that could tell us exactly what the regime was up to in the days and years leading up to the Iraq War in March of 203? It's like arguing against motherhood or something. It just doesn't make any sense.
GALLAGHER: So why wouldn't the Bush administration be first in line to say, "Heck, yes, we're going to give Stephen the documents so we can continue to make our case that this war is justified"?
HAYES: Well, I think two reasons. One was bureaucratic ineptitude. I don't think people had any sense, people at the senior levels of the Bush administration, really had a sense of what it was that was potentially in these documents.
You'll remember, you know, in March of 2003, April of 2003, we saw numerous stories about how documents were systematically destroyed. And I think there was this sense that there wasn't an urgency about exploiting these documents and releasing them to the public because perhaps all of the valuable information had been destroyed. Now, that turns out not to have been the case, at least from the people that I've spoken with who are familiar with the substance of the documents.
And I think the second reason is, sadly, the Bush administration was unwilling to have a fight with the CIA and other intelligence agencies about the contents of these documents. If Saddam was supporting trans-regional terrorists in a significant way, something that the CIA and the DIA had been skeptical about for more than a decade, do they want to have this fight on the front pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post?
ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Hey, Stephen, it's Alan Colmes.
HAYES: And the answer for a long time was no.
COLMES: You know, there are some great questions about the authenticity of lots of these documents. You yourself have acknowledged that in The Weekly Standard. So we don't know whether these documents are accurate.
You know the administration, if it could prove links between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, they'd get it out there in a second if they knew they had the proof.
HAYES: Yes, actually, I disagree with your premise, as somebody who's been reporting on Iraq and Al Qaeda for quite some time. The administration seems not that eager to put out its best information...
COLMES: Well, then what are they covering up? Why wouldn't they want something out which buttressed the argument they've been trying to make about this war that they've been unable to prove?
HAYES: Well, as I say, I think, for a long time, it was this reluctance to engage in a front-page, you know, back-and-forth with the intelligence agencies. When you have the Bush administration on the one hand making arguments, you have unnamed intelligence officials on the other hand, "The Washington Post" and "The New York Times" tend to give credence to...
COLMES: Well, they've already said...
HAYES: ... these intelligence, unnamed intelligence officials.
COLMES: Bush has said the intelligence was flawed. He's already acknowledged that. The 9/11 commission said no operational link. There may have been contact between Saddam Hussein and Usama bin Laden or representatives of each. That may have happened. But no operational link has ever been proven. The 9/11 commission showed that to be true.
HAYES: Well, let me ask you, Alan. I mean how credible is the 9/11 commission's conclusion when they haven't seen some six million pages of documents that were created by the Iraqi regime?
COLMES: Well, how...
HAYES: Not very, in my view.
COLMES: You talk about documents that haven't been released. You talk about documents that some maybe forged or may not be accurate. You're talking about a situation where — between, I think — what years was it — '98 and '04, 26 Arabic or Farsi translators were fired simply because they were gay, didn't even have — and that's whey they fired them. They didn't even have enough translators to even know what's in these documents.
HAYES: Well, I don't disagree with you. Let's talk about what we actually know. The Defense Intelligence Agency has authenticated a document from 1992 in which the Iraqi intelligence service lists Usama bin Laden as an Iraqi intelligence asset.
Now, what does that tell us? Certainly nothing conclusive. But it seems to me that our intelligence community and journalists, certainly, should want to know more about why the Iraqi intelligence service considered bin Laden...
COLMES: Well, let's talk about that CIA assessment. Carl Levin, for example, as you yourself have pointed out, has released two short excerpts from that February of 2002 assessment by the DIA raising questions about the credibility of Al Qaeda senior officials who claimed that Iraq trained Al Qaeda in chemical and biological warfare. And you know that that's subject to dispute.
HAYES: Well, sure, some of this stuff is subject to dispute. My question is a very simple one. Why are we debating what the DIA said in 2002 when we could be debating what the Iraqi regime tells us from their own internal documents going back decades?
COLMES: Big if.
HAYES: It doesn't make any sense.
GALLAGHER: It seems to me, Stephen Hayes, you're doing just what a good journalist is supposed to do, keep fighting the fight. We'll see what happens. Maybe you'll be vindicated one day. Appreciate you joining us tonight.
HAYES: Thanks.
GALLAGHER: Thank you.
STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH ....comin up very soon . President BUSH has been steadily building up the reasons , decisions , and concequences and non-concequences , of us taking the offencive , in the war on terrorist ( abroad and at home ).....I THINK HE IS GOING TO LAY SOME HEAVY DUTY STUFF OUT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE .....by-pass all the media , and blowhards , and TELL IT LIKE IT IS !.....hope i'm correct , have to wait and see.
Bush Understated Saddam's Threat
Front Page Magazine ^ | 12 January 2006 | Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu
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| Mohammed Atta | 1/4/2001 | Madrid, Spain |
| Mohammed Atta | 7/7/2001 | Zurich, Switzerland |
| Alshehhi | 1/11/2001 | Casablanca, Morocco |
| Alshehhi | 4/18/2001 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Ziad Jarrah | 7/25/2001 | Germany |
[1] UN envoy confirms terrorist meeting Prague Post, June 5, 2002 http://www.praguepost.com/P02/2002/20605/news1a.php [2] On Atta, Prague and Iraq Chicago Sun-Times, May 13, 2002 http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak13.html [3] The Phantom Link to Iraq Newsweek, April 28, 2002 http://www.msnbc.com/news/744626.asp [4] Atta, Prague, Iraq Edward Jay Epstein, May 9, 2002 http://edwardjayepstein.com/2002question/prague.htm [5] Mr. Atta Goes to Prague New York Times, May 9, 2002 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/09/opinion/09SAFI.html [6] Protecting Saddam New York Times, March 18, 2002 http://www.nci.org/02/03f/18-07.htm [7] Iraqi leads opposition movement from Prague Prague Post, April 3, 2002 http://www.praguepost.com/P02/2002/20403/news7.php [8] No Link Between Hijacker, Iraq Found, U.S. Says Washington Post, May 1, 2002 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11966-2002Apr30.html [9] New Clue Fails to Explain Iraq Role in Sept. 11 Attack New York Times, December 16, 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/16/international/middleeast/16IRAQ.html [10] Czech PM: Atta considered Prague attack CNN, November 9, 2001 http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/11/09/inv.czech.atta/index.html [11] Czech government didn't tell U.S. about hijacker's Iraqi connection until after attacks AP, October 28, 2001 [12] Czech PM: Atta considered Prague attack CNN, November 9, 2001 http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/11/09/inv.czech.atta/index.html [13] No Evidence Suspect Met Iraqi in Prague New York Times, October 20, 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/20/international/europe/20PRAG.html [14] Czechs Confirm Iraqi Agent Met With Terror Ringleader New York Times, October 27, 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/international/middleeast/27IRAQ.html?pagewanted=all [15] New Clue Fails to Explain Iraq Role in Sept. 11 Attack New York Times, December 16, 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/16/international/middleeast/16IRAQ.html [16] Hijacker 'Given Anthrax Flask by Iraqi Agent' The Times of London, October 27, 2001 [17] How Bush Decided That Hussein Must Be Ousted From Atop Iraq Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2002 http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1024014383232040120-search,00.html [18] Gunning for Saddam; Interview with Mohammed Aldouri Frontline, November 8, 2001 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/aldouri.html [19] Czechs: Hijacker met with Iraqi spy Prague Post, May 8, 2002 http://www.praguepost.com/P02/2002/20508/news3.php [20] The Immigration and Naturalization Service's Contacts With Two September 11 Terrorists U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, May 20, 2002 http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/2002_05/fullreport.pdf [21] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -v- ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/speeches/mous.pdf
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bttt
The lights in the brains of Reid & Levin blinked out a long time ago. Their minds are made up. They can't cope with new information.
Where is Mr. Al-Ani today?
The Prague Post reported that Mr. Al-Ani now works for the Foreign Ministry in Baghdad. [7]
And this guy still works for the Iraqi government?
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