[Names Ash Housewares]

All indicates this story from 1999 was correct doesnt it?

http://tinyurl.com/ctl8s

Iraq Tempts Bin Laden To Attack West


The Herald
By Ian Bruce
December 28, 1999


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 West over the next few weeks.


Intelligence sources say the Saudi dissident believed responsible for the
bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and a US military
barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1998, is running out of options for a safe haven.


He is now thought to have overcome his initial rejection of Saddam Hussein,
whom he regarded as an exploiter of the Islamic cause rather than a true
believer, and is considering the offer of a bolt-hole from which he can
continue to mastermind terrorism on a global scale.


A US counter-terrorist source said yesterday: "Our State Department issued a
worldwide warning on December 11. We have solid information that many of the
groups operating under bin Laden's patronage are planning 'spectaculars' to
coincide with the period leading up to and through the millennium
celebrations.


"They want to inflict maximum loss of life in return for publicity. Now we are
also facing the prospect of an unholy alliance between bin Laden and Saddam.
The implications are terrifying.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I had not seen that before. Says that the Clinton Administration was not sitting on their hands either, with regard to bin Laden....

[MizSterious]

Good memory, I do remember that story from "way back." Jveritas' translations give it lots more credence.

Jveritas: we are all in your debt for all this work. Thank you so much!

[jveritas]

After all what we are learning through these Iraqi documents and this is still the tip of the iceberg, it is extremely possible that what you posted is true.

[r-q-tek86]

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