Saddam Regime Document: Iraqi Intelligence met with Bin Laden in 1995 (Translation)

To: jveritas; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Wow. I just made a sarcastic crack about this on the Levin thread. It's just a matter of time before these documents link Saddam to the bombing of the Khobar Towers once and for all. This document detailing a meeting you've translated took place immediately before that bombing. Let noone forget that the Khobar Towers housed US military personnel who patrolled the Iraq no-fly zone. And this meeting was about attacking the US interests in Saudi Arabia. Fascinating.

41 posted on 03/21/2006 4:02:58 PM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)

Please add me to your ping list. I just don't seem to spend enough time on Freerepublic right now. ;-)

Pinz

42 posted on 03/21/2006 4:03:28 PM PST by pinz-n-needlez

To: eyespysomething

June 25, 1999

My point remains the same ... The attack on Americans in Saudi Arabia came after this meeting where Iraqi intelligence sought to work with bin Laden on a strike against Americans in Saudi Arabia. Right?

43 posted on 03/21/2006 4:03:31 PM PST by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)

"...do you have a program or something like altavista babblefish that allows you do do so?"

LOL! Hell, there is no TELLING what those programs would spit out if we fed the documents into them!

Might even evoke a fatwa against FR! I have had some really funny results when I tried Babelfish, things like "Fingers are your favorite food" when I said something completely different...:)

44 posted on 03/21/2006 4:03:47 PM PST by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)

To: eyespysomething

45 posted on 03/21/2006 4:04:07 PM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)

To: eyespysomething

I believe the Stalinist model of communism...

46 posted on 03/21/2006 4:04:21 PM PST by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)

To: jveritas; Jim Robinson

Yet again. Thank you for your duty bound efforts. And as your profile indicates.....the truth shall set thee free. In due time your efforts and the efforts of many others shall bear fruit. Please don't take it as placing a further burden on you. But could it be worth while if Jim where to provide an icon on main Freeper home page and or a special link where all these translated documents could be put?
Perhaps such a repository would in the future allow some of us to construct a slam dunk set of thesis to dispell and remaining doubts Freepers may have over the valid reasons this POTUS had to invade Iraq.
If the idea sounds worth while. Perhaps before you publish to many more results and agreement can be made as to where the current few have been placed. Title of your posts.
Perhaps a key word you could add to keyword section of your postings could be used as a vehicle to segregate these posts from many of similar form.
As we all realize. For many Freepers, who are either new and or just not adapted to doing detailed searches, such a single repository would go a long way to archiving your translation, and those others may do, for posterity, as well as providing some of us at a future date to create an easy to follow work for all to view.
Just a thought.

47 posted on 03/21/2006 4:06:16 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)

To: eyespysomething; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Khobar was actually 1996, ("Dating Game: terrorism by the numbers" has that typo too.) but good info. :)

48 posted on 03/21/2006 4:07:07 PM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)

To: Recovering_Democrat; jveritas; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

SOMEONE PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG!

But I could swear The Weekly Standard reported on this about two years ago!!

EXCELLENT memory. Here you go: Case Closed

Excerpt: 8. Reporting from a well placed source disclosed that bin Laden was receiving training on bomb making from the IIS's [Iraqi Intelligence Service] principal technical expert on making sophisticated explosives, Brigadier Salim al-Ahmed. Brigadier Salim was observed at bin Laden's farm in Khartoum in Sept.-Oct. 1995 and again in July 1996, in the company of the Director of Iraqi Intelligence, Mani abd-al-Rashid al-Tikriti.

9 . . . Bin Laden visited Doha, Qatar (17-19 Jan. 1996), staying at the residence of a member of the Qatari ruling family. He discussed the successful movement of explosives into Saudi Arabia, and operations targeted against U.S. and U.K. interests in Dammam, Dharan, and Khobar, using clandestine al Qaeda cells in Saudi Arabia. Upon his return, bin Laden met with Hijazi and Turabi, among others.

And later more reporting, from the same "well placed" source:

10. The Director of Iraqi Intelligence, Mani abd-al-Rashid al-Tikriti, met privately with bin Laden at his farm in Sudan in July 1996. Tikriti used an Iraqi delegation traveling to Khartoum to discuss bilateral cooperation as his "cover" for his own entry into Sudan to meet with bin Laden and Hassan al-Turabi. The Iraqi intelligence chief and two other IIS officers met at bin Laden's farm and discussed bin Laden's request for IIS technical assistance in: a) making letter and parcel bombs; b) making bombs which could be placed on aircraft and detonated by changes in barometric pressure; and c) making false passport [sic]. Bin Laden specifically requested that [Brigadier Salim al-Ahmed], Iraqi intelligence's premier explosives maker--especially skilled in making car bombs--remain with him in Sudan. The Iraqi intelligence chief instructed Salim to remain in Sudan with bin Laden as long as required.

The analysis of those events follows:

The time of the visit from the IIS director was a few weeks after the Khobar Towers bombing. The bombing came on the third anniversary of a U.S. [Tomahawk missile] strike on IIS HQ (retaliation for the attempted assassination of former President Bush in Kuwait) for which Iraqi officials explicitly threatened retaliation.

49 posted on 03/21/2006 4:11:00 PM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)

To: SittinYonder

My mistake, Khobar Towers was 1996, not 1999.

50 posted on 03/21/2006 4:14:03 PM PST by eyespysomething

To: Marine_Uncle

But could it be worth while if Jim where to provide an icon on main Freeper home page and or a special link where all these translated documents could be put?

Try a keyword search for PREWARDOCS.

51 posted on 03/21/2006 4:14:23 PM PST by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)

To: cgk; SittinYonder

No, y'all are the GMTA.

52 posted on 03/21/2006 4:14:53 PM PST by eyespysomething

To: SittinYonder; Marine_Uncle

It's at the top of the latests posts/articles page.

PreWarDocs

53 posted on 03/21/2006 4:16:52 PM PST by eyespysomething

To: jveritas; Calpernia; Revelation 911; The Grammarian; SpookBrat; Alamo-Girl; P-Marlowe; ...

Absolutely outstanding contribution.

Amazing NEWS!

B. The approval of the Honorable Presidency was granted to meet with the opposition person Osama Bin Laden by the Apparatus according to letter 128 on 11/1/1995 (attachment 6) and the meting with him was completed by Mr. M.A ex-4th Directory in Sudan and with the presence of the Sudanese Dr. Abrahim AL Sanoosi on 19/2/1995 and a discussion occurred about his organization

54 posted on 03/21/2006 4:17:52 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Pray for Our Troops!)

To: SittinYonder

"Try a keyword search for PREWARDOCS."
But as I said. Not all will have a keyword to go by, nor do all do searches. That is why I brought it up. Someone joining FR in six months would not have the slightest idea as to the existence of all the translations jveritis may end up doing.
At any rate. Thanks for the keyword. I shall give it a try to see how many posts surface.

55 posted on 03/21/2006 4:18:32 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)

Thanks xzins,here's a bump to save my spot.

56 posted on 03/21/2006 4:20:00 PM PST by fatima (Just say it if it is for love-have no regrets.)

To: cgk; SittinYonder; eyespysomething

I think Khobar is currently being laid on the Iranians.....

57 posted on 03/21/2006 4:21:00 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)

To: coconutt2000

Katie Couric and Davie Gregory and the Today show will definitely lead with this tomorrow morning. And monkeys might fly out of my butt.

58 posted on 03/21/2006 4:21:51 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))

To: eyespysomething

It's at the top of the latests posts/articles page.

He can still do a keyword search for it. Why are you arguing with everything I have to say?

59 posted on 03/21/2006 4:23:32 PM PST by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)

To: eyespysomething; SittinYonder

Thanks folks. Now I see the PreWarDocs at top of page.

60 posted on 03/21/2006 4:23:59 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)

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