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Saddam, Al Qaeda Did Collaborate, Documents Show
NY Sun ^ | 3/24/06 | Eli Lake

Posted on 03/24/2006 2:08:33 PM PST by pissant

CAIRO, Egypt - A former Democratic senator and 9/11 commissioner says a recently declassified Iraqi account of a 1995 meeting between Osama bin Laden and a senior Iraqi envoy presents a "significant set of facts," and shows a more detailed collaboration between Iraq and Al Qaeda.

In an interview yesterday, the current president of the New School University, Bob Kerrey, was careful to say that new documents translated last night by ABC News did not prove Saddam Hussein played a role in any way in plotting the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Nonetheless, the former senator from Nebraska said that the new document shows that "Saddam was a significant enemy of the United States." Mr. Kerrey said he believed America's understanding of the deposed tyrant's relationship with Al Qaeda would become much deeper as more captured Iraqi documents and audiotapes are disclosed.

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: alqaedaandiraq; bobkerrey; iraq; iraqiintelligence; libseatcrow; saddam
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And the Wash Post and NY Times will be all over this like they were the oil for food scandal.

Maybe if we tell them that GWB's National Guard records are in the released documents, they may run with the story.

1 posted on 03/24/2006 2:08:36 PM PST by pissant
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But... but... Bush lied and kids died!

::covers ears::

LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!!!!

2 posted on 03/24/2006 2:10:45 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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but but but.... ummm errr there was... ummm errr but... ahh forget it.


3 posted on 03/24/2006 2:14:06 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: pissant; Gordongekko909
Axis of Evil.

We never expected a direct link between Saddam and 9/11 any more than FDR expected a direct link between Hitler and Pearl Harbor.

The lefties understand this -- they pretend not to though.

4 posted on 03/24/2006 2:15:29 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Gordongekko909

Their world must be crumbling.....I'm just so choked up about that..


5 posted on 03/24/2006 2:16:06 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

My question is: What else did the bogus 9/11 Commission overlook?


6 posted on 03/24/2006 2:16:40 PM PST by My2Cents ("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
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To: Echo Talon

Exactly


7 posted on 03/24/2006 2:16:57 PM PST by pissant
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To: BenLurkin

Hitler and the Japs did have a relationship, just like Saddam and Al Quaeda.


8 posted on 03/24/2006 2:17:03 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: pissant
In an interview yesterday, the current president of the New School University, Bob Kerrey, was careful to say that new documents translated last night by ABC News did not prove Saddam Hussein played a role in any way in plotting the attacks of September 11, 2001.

What happened to the Presidents contention that Saddam was involved with Al Qaeda? So like the leftists to keep moving the football. What's next - they find that Saddam did help plan 9/11, but it still doesn't count because he didn't personally participate in the implementation???

9 posted on 03/24/2006 2:17:29 PM PST by Kay Ludlow (Free market, but cautious about what I support with my dollars)
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In an interview yesterday, the current president of the New School University, Bob Kerrey, was careful to say that new documents translated last night by ABC News did not prove Saddam Hussein played a role in any way in plotting the attacks of September 11, 2001.

What happened to the Presidents contention that Saddam was involved with Al Qaeda? So like the leftists to keep moving the football. What's next - they find that Saddam did help plan 9/11, but it still doesn't count because he didn't personally participate in the implementation???

10 posted on 03/24/2006 2:17:34 PM PST by Kay Ludlow (Free market, but cautious about what I support with my dollars)
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I believe highjackers of all sorts were trained at Salman Pak.
Including al Queda.


11 posted on 03/24/2006 2:18:02 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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Liberal argument that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 just smashed to the ground.

Except for the NY Slimes who'll never report this...CBS will try to say the document is a fake.


12 posted on 03/24/2006 2:18:58 PM PST by Brytani
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To: BenLurkin

I'm not sure the lefties understand much at all.


13 posted on 03/24/2006 2:19:35 PM PST by pissant
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To: My2Cents

Able Danger, perhaps?


14 posted on 03/24/2006 2:19:58 PM PST by pissant
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To: Kay Ludlow

It's the "move the goalposts" trick. And it ain't gonna work! BTW, are you related to Larry?


15 posted on 03/24/2006 2:21:03 PM PST by pissant
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To: Kay Ludlow

Yeah, "Well, Saddam was involved in the planning and funding of 9/11, but he didn't personally fly any of the planes into the buildings." These people look evil in the face and refuse to acknowledge it, but remember, they have a perverted sense of what actually constitutes "evil."


16 posted on 03/24/2006 2:21:21 PM PST by My2Cents ("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
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They misspell Kerrey's last name every time except the first time the mention it. The "Kerry" spelling calls a picture of John "Lurch" Kerry to mind.

Am I the only one that noticed a lot of grammar errors? I like what they're saying but they are struggling to get it said. Must be the results of the NEA-dominated government education system.

17 posted on 03/24/2006 2:22:06 PM PST by capt. norm (If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.)
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To: Brytani
CBS will try to say the document is a fake.

I'm sure they're checking typeface as we speak.

18 posted on 03/24/2006 2:22:21 PM PST by My2Cents ("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
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To: Brytani

CBS and document authentication: a match made in heaven.


19 posted on 03/24/2006 2:22:32 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Brytani

They will move earth and heaven if they think they can show these released documents to be fakes. But won't lift a finger if someone slips them a secret document saying Bush is a KKK memeber.


20 posted on 03/24/2006 2:22:49 PM PST by pissant
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