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Posted on 03/20/2006 5:36:32 AM PST by Carl/NewsMax
An Iraqi intelligence document released last week indicates that Osama bin Laden sought to conduct "joint operations" with Saddam Hussein's regime six years before the 9/11 attacks - and was given the green light by the Iraqi dictator.
The document, detailed in the March 27 issue of the Weekly Standard, describes a Feb. 1995 meeting between bin Laden and Iraqi intelligence that was personally approved by "the Honorable Presidency" - an apparent reference to Saddam.
"We discussed with [bin Laden] his organization. He requested the broadcast of the speeches of Sheikh Sulayman al-Uda [who has influence within Saudi Arabia and outside due to being a well known religious and influential personality] and to designate a program for them through the broadcast directed inside Iraq, and to perform joint operations against the foreign forces in the land of Hijaz [Saudi Arabia]."
The document goes on to note that "the Honorable Presidency was informed of the details of the meeting in our letter 370 on March 4, 1995."
The document indicates that Saddam personally granted bin Laden's request for help with propaganda broadcasts and instructed his agents "to develop the relationship [with bin Laden] and the cooperation between the two sides to see what other doors of cooperation and agreement open up."
The 1997 Iraqi intelligence document goes on to report: "Currently we are working to invigorate this relationship through a new channel in light of his present location [Afghanistan]."
The reference by Iraqi intelligence to "joint operations" with bin Laden apparently contradicts one of the 9/11 Commission's most important findings: that Saddam had no "operational relationship" with al Qaeda.
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Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents
The plot thickens...
Take note ... among the many myths these Iraqi documents should be disabusing people of is that the 9/11 Commission did any "fact finding."
Smoking Gun. During the run-up to the Iraq war, Abu Nidal, the terrorist was killed in his Baghdad apartment. I remember the anchor I was watching at the time closed one segment with something like, "And the case for Iraq and a connection to terrorism just has not been made." Turning to the next camera, this anchor who knows whats best for us, started the very next segment with something like this,"Today world famous terrorist, Abu Nidal, was found dead in his Baghdad apartment..."
I remember both me and my wife at the time commenting on the straight faced delivery..
The 9/11 Commission was a joke
We knew it then and we know it still today
Saddam had a very public standing offer of $25k to the family of every suicide bomber in Israel. For anyone to suggest with a straight face that he was not a major sponsor of terror is just ludicrous.
bttt
all the talk about the WMD's being moved to Syria, etc...
I tend to think that OBL, WMD, etc is all in Iran or Russia.....
yes- Russia.....
call me whacky.....
bttt
WE knew it then, but too many didn't and still don't. I work with a raving anti-Bush, anti-War in Iraq lib. He's all the time bringing me hare-brained DU type conspiracy theories. I asked him this morning about the document release and what he makes of the info coming out and of course he's heard nothing of it.
It's frustrating, but if he won't do the research himself I'll gladly print articles and put them in front of him.
That's what I do
One way or another .. the news will get out to the public
But they did. The media tried very hard seperating "9-11 terrorism" with "conventional terrorism". While honest and reasonable people knew this was BS, a large number of Americans bought into it..
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This looks like this is going to start cross referencing over to Able Danger.
I agree with you. It's hard to know, considering the biased coverage in the media, but I am having a hard time remembering any Russian contractors or troops being beheaded. Now, Russia may not have troops in Iraq, I don't know. Does Russia have an embassy there? Is it ever threatened? The media may not cover it, or it may not be happening. Wonder if any of our troops that have been there have observed....
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