Posted on 02/24/2006 10:05:16 AM PST by bigsky
Before President Bush gets anywhere near casting his first veto to ensure that the government of the United Arab Emirates can manage elements of six U.S. ports, someone ought to put before him pages 137-139 of “The 9/11 Commission Report.”
If Bush doesn’t then cancel the UAE port deal, Congress must demand testimony from every person named in those pages and the footnotes. That includes former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet; former CIA Deputy Director for Operations James Pavitt; former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger; Gen. Hugh Shelton, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Maj. Gen. John Maher, Shelton’s vice director of operations; Gary Schroen, the CIA field officer tracking Bin Laden; “Mike,” the pseudonym the 9/11 Commission gave the U.S.’s Osama bin Laden unit chief; and, most importantly, Richard Clarke, Berger’s assistant for counter-terrorism.
Tipped Off
The story the commission tells is that Clarke made a call to a high-ranking UAE official that may have inadvertently saved bin Laden from a U.S. missile strike. The commission’s reporting strongly suggests someone in the UAE government tipped off someone in Afghanistan, protecting bin Laden.
In early 1999, the Clinton Administration wanted to fire missiles at bin Laden without risking civilian casualties. Bin Laden played into our hands. Intelligence reports from Afghan “tribals” indicated he was frequenting a small hunting camp adjacent to a larger camp outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. Here U.S. missiles could score a clean kill.
But then officials from the UAE got in the way. The commission said:
“On February 8, the military began to ready itself for a possible strike. The next day, national technical intelligence confirmed the location and description of the larger camp and showed the nearby presence of an official aircraft of the United Arab Emirates. But the location of Bin Laden’s quarters could not be pinned down so precisely. … According to reporting from the tribals, bin Laden regularly went from his adjacent camp to the larger camp where he visited the Emiratis. The tribals expected him to be at the hunting camp for such a visit at least until midmorning on February 11. Clarke wrote to Berger’s deputy on February 10 that the military was then doing targeting work to hit the main camp with cruise missiles and should be in position to strike the following morning. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert appears to have been briefed on the situation.
“No strike was launched. By February 12 bin Laden had apparently moved on, and the immediate strike plans became moot. According to CIA and Defense officials, policymakers were concerned about the danger that a strike would kill an Emirati prince or other senior officials who might be with bin Laden or close by. Clarke told us the strike was called off after consultations with Director Tenet because the intelligence was dubious, and it seemed to Clarke as if the CIA was presenting an option to attack America’s best counterterrorism ally in the Gulf. The lead CIA official in the field, Gary Schroen, felt that the intelligence reporting in this case was very reliable. The bin Laden unit chief, ‘Mike,’ agreed. Schroen believes today that this was a lost opportunity to kill bin Laden before 9/11.
“Even after bin Laden’s departure from the area, CIA officers hoped he might return, seeing the camp as a magnet that could draw him for as long as it was still set up. The military maintained readiness for another strike opportunity. On March 7, 1999, Clarke called a UAE official to express his concerns about possible associations between Emirati officials and bin Laden. Clarke later wrote in a memorandum of this conversation that the call had been approved at an interagency meeting and cleared with the CIA. When the former bin Laden unit chief found out about Clarke’s call, he questioned CIA officials, who denied having given such a clearance. Imagery confirmed that less than a week after Clarke’s phone call the camp was hurriedly dismantled, and the site was deserted. CIA officers, including Deputy Director for Operations Pavitt, were irate. ‘Mike’ thought the dismantling of the camp erased a possible site for targeting bin Laden.”
Clarke Visited UAE
Footnotes spell out more details. One names the “UAE official” Clarke called: “NSC memo, Clarke, secure teleconference between UAE Chief of Staff Muhammad bin Zayid and Clarke, Mar. 7, 1999.”
Another notes that Joint Chiefs deputy operations director Maher was incredulous the CIA would approve this call: “Maher told us he thinks it ‘almost impossible’ that the CIA cleared Clarke’s call.”
Another indicates Clarke had been in the UAE just before the contemplated strike at bin Laden and had been assured by both bin Zayid and Dubai’s leader, Sheikh Muhammad bin Rashid, that the UAE would help the U.S. against bin Laden. Bin Zayid even insisted UAE officials were not in Afghanistan, even though it turned out that the UAE chief of staff himself had gone hunting in Afghanistan at about the same time as the contemplated U.S. attacks. The commission said:
“Days before overhead imagery confirmed the location of the hunting camp, Clarke had returned from a visit to the UAE … His visit included one-on-one meetings with Army Chief of Staff bin Zayid, as well as talks with Sheikh Muhammad bin Rashid, the ruler of Dubai. Both agreed to try to work with the United States in their efforts against Bin Laden. … On February 10, as the United States considered striking the camp, Clarke reported that during his visit bin Zayid had vehemently denied rumors that high-level UAE officials were in Afghanistan. … Subsequent reporting, however, suggested that high-level UAE officials had indeed been at the desert camp. CIA memo, ‘Recent High Level UAE Visits to Afghanistan,’ Feb. 19, 1999. Gen. Shelton also told us that his UAE counterpart said he had been hunting at a desert camp in Afghanistan at about this time.”
Another footnote says that talking points prepared for DCI Tenet that March mention “the UAE being ‘tipped off’ to the CIA’s knowledge of the camp.”
Richard Clarke believed the UAE was a counter-terrorism ally then. Bush believes it now. Clarke apparently was fooled. But that, at least, was before 9/11.
What next...the UAE has stock in Walmart?
We're suddenly taking the 9-11 Omission Report seriously? Have they gotten around to Able Danger yet?
Naturally the knee jerk labeling of things that create cognitive dissonance "Tin Foil Hat" smear jobs..may indeed
prove to be just that...themselves..
Prove me wrong....;)
" completely disregarded the story before reading it."
exactly-- we're supposed to believe that the story was read and absorbed everything within a little over 1 min 30secs (assuming he clicked on the story immediately after you posted it)...and then had time to form an opinion enough to dismiss it?
A couple years ago the Discovery or History channel did a program on Bin Laden. They showed the film of the UAE plane at the Alquida base and the group strolling arm in arm.
A handful of people here will refuse to believe anything if it's not their agenda and a dangerous agenda at that. We have more reason and "intelligence" to name the UAE an enemy than Iraq!
Well, the first tipster was Clark. He tipped the UAE.
I am going to say it now, and I know what it sounds like.
My gut tells me that Clarke himself provided the tip-off, either unwillingly as a naive dupe of his UAE "connections", or, yes, willingly. I have always seen him as very duplicitious, and now one of his supporters, Madeline Halfbright, heads one of the lobbyist groups pushing for approval of the UAE port deal.
It all does not smell right and we all know the nest of vipers that exists in the permanent government at State and DOD, who are the underlings who approved the deal.
like I said it's the dawning of a new age. Halfwits from all walks of life can join hand in hand and agree Dragons be there when pointing to the right side of the map. Don't pay any mind to the billions and billions in trade.
What do you think they'll do with that dough after they've bought the last 24 caret gold toilet flusher? You think the farmers in Afghanistan could use some new equipment for the Al Qaeda poppy plantations? Or maybe just tithe those billions over the the Imans. I'm sure they'll do good for the west with the petrol dough.
Wake up Morans. (sp)
"these are the same people that want to dismiss UAE's connection-- but want us to draw the more difficult notion that Iraq and 9/11 were connected"
It is far more difficult to draw any connection between the UAE and Al Qaeda than it is Saddam's Iraq and Al Qaeda. The latter case has substantial evidence supporting it. But maybe we ought to call the Democrats' bluff and say since the UAE is so connected to Al Qaeda that we need to invade them. Let's see how quickly the innuendo agains the UAE stops. Anyway, the evidence that Saddam worked with Al Qaeda:
Those who try to whitewash Saddam's record don't dispute this evidence; they just ignore it. So let's review the evidence, all of it on the public record for months or years:
* Abdul Rahman Yasin was the only member of the al Qaeda cell that detonated the 1993 World Trade Center bomb to remain at large in the Clinton years. He fled to Iraq. U.S. forces recently discovered a cache of documents in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, that show that Iraq gave Mr. Yasin both a house and monthly salary.
* Bin Laden met at least eight times with officers of Iraq's Special Security Organization, a secret police agency run by Saddam's son Qusay, and met with officials from Saddam's mukhabarat, its external intelligence service, according to intelligence made public by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was speaking before the United Nations Security Council on February 6, 2003.
* Sudanese intelligence officials told me that their agents had observed meetings between Iraqi intelligence agents and bin Laden starting in 1994, when bin Laden lived in Khartoum.
* Bin Laden met the director of the Iraqi mukhabarat in 1996 in Khartoum, according to Mr. Powell.
* An al Qaeda operative now held by the U.S. confessed that in the mid-1990s, bin Laden had forged an agreement with Saddam's men to cease all terrorist activities against the Iraqi dictator, Mr. Powell told the United Nations.
* In 1999 the Guardian, a British newspaper, reported that Farouk Hijazi, a senior officer in Iraq's mukhabarat, had journeyed deep into the icy mountains near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in December 1998 to meet with al Qaeda men. Mr. Hijazi is "thought to have offered bin Laden asylum in Iraq," the Guardian reported.
* In October 2000, another Iraqi intelligence operative, Salah Suleiman, was arrested near the Afghan border by Pakistani authorities, according to Jane's Foreign Report, a respected international newsletter. Jane's reported that Suleiman was shuttling between Iraqi intelligence and Ayman al Zawahiri, now al Qaeda's No. 2 man.
(Why are all of those meetings significant? The London Observer reports that FBI investigators cite a captured al Qaeda field manual in Afghanistan, which "emphasizes the value of conducting discussions about pending terrorist attacks face to face, rather than by electronic means.")
* As recently as 2001, Iraq's embassy in Pakistan was used as a "liaison" between the Iraqi dictator and al Qaeda, Mr. Powell told the United Nations.
* Spanish investigators have uncovered documents seized from Yusuf Galan -- who is charged by a Spanish court with being "directly involved with the preparation and planning" of the Sept. 11 attacks -- that show the terrorist was invited to a party at the Iraqi embassy in Madrid. The invitation used his "al Qaeda nom de guerre," London's Independent reports.
* An Iraqi defector to Turkey, known by his cover name as "Abu Mohammed," told Gwynne Roberts of the Sunday Times of London that he saw bin Laden's fighters in camps in Iraq in 1997. At the time, Mohammed was a colonel in Saddam's Fedayeen. He described an encounter at Salman Pak, the training facility southeast of Baghdad. At that vast compound run by Iraqi intelligence, Muslim militants trained to hijack planes with knives -- on a full-size Boeing 707. Col. Mohammed recalls his first visit to Salman Pak this way: "We were met by Colonel Jamil Kamil, the camp manager, and Major Ali Hawas. I noticed that a lot of people were queuing for food. (The major) said to me: 'You'll have nothing to do with these people. They are Osama bin Laden's group and the PKK and Mojahedin-e Khalq.'"
* In 1998, Abbas al-Janabi, a longtime aide to Saddam's son Uday, defected to the West. At the time, he repeatedly told reporters that there was a direct connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.
*The Sunday Times found a Saddam loyalist in a Kurdish prison who claims to have been Dr. Zawahiri's bodyguard during his 1992 visit with Saddam in Baghdad. Dr. Zawahiri was a close associate of bin Laden at the time and was present at the founding of al Qaeda in 1989.
* Following the defeat of the Taliban, almost two dozen bin Laden associates "converged on Baghdad and established a base of operations there," Mr. Powell told the United Nations in February 2003. From their Baghdad base, the secretary said, they supervised the movement of men, materiel and money for al Qaeda's global network.
* In 2001, an al Qaeda member "bragged that the situation in Iraq was 'good,'" according to intelligence made public by Mr. Powell.
* That same year, Saudi Arabian border guards arrested two al Qaeda members entering the kingdom from Iraq.
* Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi oversaw an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, Mr. Powell told the United Nations. His specialty was poisons. Wounded in fighting with U.S. forces, he sought medical treatment in Baghdad in May 2002. When Zarqawi recovered, he restarted a training camp in northern Iraq. Zarqawi's Iraq cell was later tied to the October 2002 murder of Lawrence Foley, an official of the U.S. Agency for International Development, in Amman, Jordan. The captured assassin confessed that he received orders and funds from Zarqawi's cell in Iraq, Mr. Powell said. His accomplice escaped to Iraq.
*Zarqawi met with military chief of al Qaeda, Mohammed Ibrahim Makwai (aka Saif al-Adel) in Iran in February 2003, according to intelligence sources cited by the Washington Post.
* Mohammad Atef, the head of al Qaeda's military wing until the U.S. killed him in Afghanistan in November 2001, told a senior al Qaeda member now in U.S. custody that the terror network needed labs outside of Afghanistan to manufacture chemical weapons, Mr. Powell said. "Where did they go, where did they look?" said the secretary. "They went to Iraq."
* Abu Abdullah al-Iraqi was sent to Iraq by bin Laden to purchase poison gases several times between 1997 and 2000. He called his relationship with Saddam's regime "successful," Mr. Powell told the United Nations.
* Mohamed Mansour Shahab, a smuggler hired by Iraq to transport weapons to bin Laden in Afghanistan, was arrested by anti-Hussein Kurdish forces in May, 2000. He later told his story to American intelligence and a reporter for the New Yorker magazine.
* Documents found among the debris of the Iraqi Intelligence Center show that Baghdad funded the Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan terror group led by an Islamist cleric linked to bin Laden. According to a London's Daily Telegraph, the organization offered to recruit "youth to train for the jihad" at a "headquarters for international holy warrior network" to be established in Baghdad.
* Mullah Melan Krekar, ran a terror group (the Ansar al-Islam) linked to both bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Mr. Krekar admitted to a Kurdish newspaper that he met bin Laden in Afghanistan and other senior al Qaeda officials. His acknowledged meetings with bin Laden go back to 1988. When he organized Ansar al Islam in 2001 to conduct suicide attacks on Americans, "three bin Laden operatives showed up with a gift of $300,000 'to undertake jihad,'" Newsday reported. Mr. Krekar is now in custody in the Netherlands. His group operated in portion of northern Iraq loyal to Saddam Hussein -- and attacked independent Kurdish groups hostile to Saddam. A spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan told a United Press International correspondent that Mr. Krekar's group was funded by "Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad."
* After October 2001, hundreds of al Qaeda fighters are believed to have holed up in the Ansar al-Islam's strongholds inside northern Iraq.
Iraq’s State Sponsorship of Osama bin-Laden and the al-Qaeda Terror Network
1999 Article: Iraq tempts bin Laden to attack West
Al-Qaeda Big Confirms Terror Ties to Iraq
White House Says it Has Evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties
The Iraq Connection: Was Saddam involved in Oklahoma City and the first WTC bombing?
World Trade Center Attack Complaint (Iraq named as plaintiff)
Complaint (PDF) Lawsuit claiming a 9/11 link between Iraq and al Qaeda. Sept. 3, 2002
Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view (Iraq believed to be behind 9/11)
Iraq and al Qaeda: Who's campaigning to deny the links?
Iraqi Terrorists Detail Ties To Bin Laden
Bin Laden disciples terrorise Kurds
The real bin Laden (Iraq has supported al-Qaida for more than a decade)
Iraq giving chemical weapons to al-Qaida: US thinks Iraq plotting with terrorists
Iraq and al-Qaida part of same picture, says Straw
'Iraq knew of al-Qaeda attacks'
Bin Laden said to have nukes (Iraq has assisted al-Qaida with the purchase of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons)
Bin Laden uses Iraq to plot new attacks
Exposed: Saddam's Prohibited Missiles and Support of al-Qaeda Terrorism
Mohamed Atta Was Here...And met with Saddam Hussein's man in Prague.
Bin Laden met Iraqi agent
Lawsuit Alleges Saddam Trained 9/11 Hijackers
Mike Boettcher: Arrests may link al Qaeda, Iraq
Al Qaeda got gas in Iraq
Son of Saddam Praises bin Laden in Official Iraqi Newspaper
Iraq's Ambassador To Turkey Recalled To Baghdad [second link between Bin Laden and Iraq discovered]
U.S.: Rumsfeld Says Al-Qaeda Takes Refuge In Iraq
CIA Director: Al Qaeda May Be Turning to Iraq
Rumsfeld Says Iraq Has Helped al-Qaeda
Iraqi Funds, Training Fuel Islamic Terror Group: Two Iraqi Arabs held in a Kurdish prison tell of contacts among Ansar al-Islam, Al Qaeda, and aides to the Iraqi president.
Iraq-Al-Qaeda Bombshell: Mag Documents New Links
German investigators link bin Laden and Iraq with anthrax outbreak
'Proof' of Iraq/Bin Laden links
Was bin Laden working with Iraq?
Iraq suspected of sponsoring terrorist attacks
Bush hopeful new report will link Iraq to al-Qaeda
U.S. captures Iraqis in Afghanistan raid
A Saddam-Afghanistan Connection Reported
Saddam trained al Qaeda terrorists, British claim
Iraq, al-Qaida linked by administration: Fleischer hints at more coming on connection
Gephardt: 'Lots Of' Intelligence Ties Iraq to Al-Qaeda
UHOLY TRINITY IN CHEMICAL WEAPONS PACT - IRAQ, SUDAN & OSAMA BIN LADEN
Links Between 9-11 Terrorist Leader Mohammed Atta, Anthrax, bin Laden and Iraq Appear Likely
The Saddam Hussein / Osama Bin Laden Connection
Iraq trains Bin Laden’s Men in Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Al Qaeda find Iraqi escape
'America Should Act in Self Defense Against Iraq For 9/11, OKC, 1993 WTC Attacks
Rumsfeld: Iraq Sheltered Top Bin Laden Aides
Exposed: Saddam's Prohibited Missiles and Support of al-Qaeda Terrorism
State Department: Key al Qaida Man in Baghdad
Bin Laden is back, now as defender of Iraq
Al Qaeda’s Man in Iraq?
Al-Qaida cohorts still active in Iraq
Debate over Iraq-bin Laden links reignited
Did Saddam, Bin Laden Work Together to Get Weapons of Mass Destruction?
U.S. Has 'Solid Evidence' of Al Qaeda Operating in Iraq
Iraq-al-Qaida links go back decade: CIA reports show nearly 100 examples of cooperation, says reporter
Arafat-Saddam-Bin Laden Links Surface
Bin Laden-Saddam nuclear pact?
Bin Laden imitates Saddam
‘PHARAOH' CLUE LINKS SADDAM AND OSAMA
New Evidence Of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties?
U.S. tracked top al Qaeda planner's visit to Baghdad
Rice: Iraq Providing Shelter, Chemical Weapons Help to Al Qaeda
Blair claims Iraq is linked to al-Qaida
Al-Qaeda terrorists seen in Iraq, says US
An Al Qaeda- Iraq link materializing?
The Iraqi-Oklahoma City Bombing Connection
Iraqi Complicity in the World Trade Center Bombing and Beyond
Taliban, Clinton, Saudi Involvement - All laid out in a book published in 2000 (from USMC.MIL site)
The Democrats' Case Against Saddam Hussein (Dems nailed, yet again)
Headline Rundown and links on Iraq - Things the democrats have conviently forgot...
Saddam Abused His Last Chance, Clinton -clear and present danger to safety of people everywhere 1998
Gore repeats that Saddam MUST GO - June 2000
What the democrats want you to forget
Iraq is a Regional Threat, capable of as much as 200 tons of VX nerve agent (1999 Clinton report)
Czech military reports say iraq has smallpox virus in weapons stockpile (and camelpox)
2/7/1998 : Arab media: Clinton will strike due to sex scandal (&links to tons of arab news on clinton)
Iraqi chemical weapons buildup reported (Sept 2001 Report)
Clinton, Gore rally domestic support for strike at Iraq, "unholy axis" (1998 Must read)
statement President Clinton from 1998 on the air strikes
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 - Full Text, Sense of Congress - Remove Saddam
-Terror Tips--
-Time to kick the tires & light the fires, folks- terrorism gathers across the World...--
-All Terror, All the Time-- FR's links to NBC Warfare, Terror, and More...--
-Jihad! Across the World....--
-IRAQ- some links to terror--
-The Web of Terror--
-The Fire Down South...( Latin America--)--
I found another extensive list of links awhile back when I was researching for my own list...you might check them against your list to make sure you have them...
Click Here
If you are keeping the Clinton/Saddam list...here is one I found this morning that you might be interested in...
Clinton Axed Terror Probe
Iraq's Tie to Al-Qaeda Terrorists, Airline Hijackings
Photos Prove Connection Between Iraq and Al-Qaeda Terrorists
Taliban, Clinton, Saudi Involvement - All laid out in a book published in 2000 (from USMC.MIL site)
The Democrats' Case Against Saddam Hussein (Dems nailed, yet again)
Headline Rundown and links on Iraq - Things the democrats have conviently forgot...
Saddam Abused His Last Chance, Clinton -clear and present danger to safety of people everywhere 1998
Gore repeats that Saddam MUST GO - June 2000
What the democrats want you to forget
Iraq is a Regional Threat, capable of as much as 200 tons of VX nerve agent (1999 Clinton report)
Czech military reports say iraq has smallpox virus in weapons stockpile (and camelpox)
2/7/1998 : Arab media: Clinton will strike due to sex scandal (&links to tons of arab news on clinton)
Iraqi chemical weapons buildup reported (Sept 2001 Report)
Clinton, Gore rally domestic support for strike at Iraq, "unholy axis" (1998 Must read)
statement President Clinton from 1998 on the air strikes
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 - Full Text, Sense of Congress - Remove Saddam
We know Saddam worked with the PLO and other terrorists, he funded them. He at LEAST knew that 9/11 was coming.
Less than two months before 9/11/01, the state-controlled Iraqi newspaper “Al-Nasiriya” carried a column headlined, “American, an Obsession called Osama Bin Ladin.” (July 21, 2001)
In the piece, Baath Party writer Naeem Abd Muhalhal predicted that bin Laden would attack the US “with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House.”
The same state-approved column also insisted that bin Laden “will strike America on the arm that is already hurting,” and that the US “will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs” – an apparent reference to the Sinatra classic, “New York, New York”.
(Link below)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1106657/posts
List of newspaper article in the 90's which mention the world's concern regarding the growing relationship between OBL and Saddam: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/946809/posts?page=1
Son of Saddam coordinates OBL activities:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/951911/posts
The AQ connection (excellent):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/944617/posts?page=2
Western Nightmare:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,798270,00.html
Saddam's link to OBL:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/866105/posts
NYT: Iraq and AQ agree to cooperate:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/985906/posts
Wolfowitz Says Saddam behind 9/11 Attacks:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/921398/posts
Growing Evidence of Saddam and Al Qaeda Link, The Weekly Standard, July 2003:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/946997/posts
Cheney lectures Russert on Iraq/911 Link, September 2003:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/982713/posts
No Question About It, National Review, September 2003
http://www.nationalreview.com/robbins/robbins091903.asp
Iraq: A Federal Judges Point of View
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/986293/posts
Mohammed's Account links Iraq to 9/11 and OKC:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/987075/posts
Free Republic Thread that mentions so me books Freepers might be interested in on this topic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/977221/posts
The Proof that Saddam Worked with AQ, The Telegraph, April 2003:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F04%2F27%2Fwalq27.xml
Saddam's AQ Connection, The Weekly Standard, September 2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/969032/posts
September 11 Victims Sue Iraq:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2237332.stm
Terrorist Behind 9/11 Attacks Trained by Saddam, The Telegraph, December 2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1007969/posts
James Woolsey Links Iraq and AQ, CNN Interview, March 2004, Also see Posts #34 and #35
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1104121/posts
A Geocities Interesting Web Site with maps and connections:
http://www.geocities.com/republican_strategist/Iraq-Bin-Laden.html
Bin Laden indicted in federal court, read down to find information that Bin Laden agreed to not attack Iraq and to work cooperatively with Iraq:
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/98110402.htm
Case Closed, The Weekly Standard, November 03
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.asp
CBS - Lawsuit: Iraq involved in 9/11:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/05/september11/main520874.shtml
Exploring Iraq's Involvement in pre-9/11 Acts, The Indianapolis Star:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/746225/posts
The Iraq/AQ Connection: Richard Minister again
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/989201/posts
"Rumor and hearsay?"
It's not. It's the dittoheads' dismissive attitude against any further investigation into the ports matter. A defensive reaction arising from the suspicion Bush/Rush might not be perfect.
"Rumor and hearsay?"
It's not. It's the dittoheads' dismissive attitude against any further investigation into the ports matter. A defensive reaction arising from the suspicion Bush/Rush might not be perfect.
Yep the article says "may have". And? That's when I skmimmed the rest of the article and said to myself, this evidence is useless.
I am sick of this CRAP! It is just about time for a bunch of our Public Servants to be forced to come clean. Not only but especially the Senate Intelligence folks, the CIA/BJC Dept of Justice, 9/11 Commissars/ DDI/ NSA/DoD/Gorelick and co., BJ/Hillary/GWB/Geo.Bush 1/Colin Bowell/ and anyone else that worked in the Federal Gov't prior to 2006! Nothing more than Big Guv'mnt Phonies and thieving bureauratic liars, need to despose them in some court under some oath and get to the bottom of this (sort-of)War on Terror....I feel an ever increasing need to see some of these people walking the plank not jiving and shucking any and all responsibility...now, where's my short, thick rope!
Don't forget to attack General Tommy Franks and Colonel Oliver North, afterall what do they know about national security, the war on terror, terrorism, the middle east and the UAE?
We're slitting our own throats with all of this Bush-worshipping partisanship. Gonna get a whole lot of people killed. If we're lucky, a Dem will win the White House in the next election, and then all of the talk radio sycophants will put national security at the top of the agenda again.
hey mike show me where i said iraq wasnt connected to 9/11?
did you even read my post..i said they were.
2 of the hijackers came from UAE, some of the money was funneled through the UAE
Here is a partial list of terrorist organizations and individuals with Dubai, UAE ties that were designated after 9/11 by the Bush administration to have their assets frozen.
· Al Baraka Exchange LLC, Dubai, U.A.E.
· Al-Barakaat, Mogadishu, Somalia; Dubai, U.A.E.
· Al-Barakaat Group of Companies Somalia Ltd., Mogadishu, Somalia; Dubai, U.A.E.
· Al-Barakaat Finance Group, Dubai, U.A.E.; Mogadishu, Somalia
· Al-Barakaat Financial Holding Company, Dubai, U.A.E.; Mogadishu, Somalia
· Al-Barakat Global Telecommunications, Hargeysa, Somalia; Mogadishu, Somalia; Dubai, U.A.E.
· Al-Barakat International, Dubai, U.A.E.
· Al-Barakat Investments, Deira, Dubai, U.A.E.
· Baraka Trading Co., Dubai, U.A.E.
· Barakaat Construction Co., Dubai, U.A.E.
· Barakaat Group of Companies, Mogadishu, Somalia; Dubai, U.A.E.
· Barakaat International Companies (BICO), Mogadishu, Somalia; Dubai, U.A.E.
· Barakaat Telecommunications Co. Somalia, Ltd., Dubai, U.A.E.
· Barakat Bank and Remittances, Mogadishu, Somalia; Dubai, U.A.E.
· Barakat Global Telephone Co., Mogadishu, Somalia; Dubai, U.A.E.
· Barakat Refreshment Co., Mogadishu, Somalia; Dubai, U.A.E. · Parka Trading Co., Deira, Dubai, U.A.E.
· Red Sea Barakat Co. Ltd., Mogadishu, Somalia; Dubai, U.A.E.
· Jim'ale, Ahmed Nur Ali, Mogadishu, Somalia; Dubai, U.A.E.
""The 9/11 Commission Report" "
the Jamie Gorelick and ben Veniste document which missed the clinton video saying that UBL got away from him, that missed abel danger, etc?
Since when is it credible?
btw mike, uae supports hamas and CAIR (a hamas front group here in the US which gets talk radio hosts like michael graham shut down)
*Michael Graham, Killed In Action
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19241
read my homepage for more info
LOL. Have you actually read the 9/11 Commission report? There is so much stuff they got plain wrong and completely missed that it 's not worth using the book as toilet paper.
We had daily live threads during the hearings and couldn't believe the garbage they were pumping. Stuff that was easily refuted. It was political back covering for the Clinton administration, plain and simple.
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