To: demlosers
I just posted something from the 9/11 Commission Report that will be of interest to this thread...
Page 117
Mary McCarthy, the NSC senior director responsible for intelligence programs, initially cautioned Berger that the bottom line was that we will need much better intelligence on this facility before we seriously consider any options. She added that the link between Bin Ladin and al Shifa was rather uncertain at this point. Berger has told us that he thought about what might happen if the decision went against hitting al Shifa, and nerve gas was used in a New York subway two weeks later.44
Page 128
The original sealed indictment had added that al Qaeda had reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq.109This passage led Clarke, who for years had read intelligence reports on Iraqi-Sudanese cooperation on chemical weapons, to speculate to Berger that a large Iraqi presence at chemical facilities in Khartoum was probably a direct result of the IraqAl Qida agreement. Clarke added that VX precursor traces found near al Shifa were the exact formula used by Iraq.110This language about al Qaedas understanding with Iraq had been dropped, however, when a superseding indictment was filed in November 1998.111
5 posted on
04/22/2006 12:31:17 PM PDT by
P-40
(http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
To: P-40
The original sealed indictment had added that al Qaeda had reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq.109This passage led Clarke, who for years had read intelligence reports on Iraqi-Sudanese cooperation on chemical weapons, to speculate to Berger that a large Iraqi presence at chemical facilities in Khartoum was probably a direct result of the IraqAl Qida agreement. Clarke added that VX precursor traces found near al Shifa were the exact formula used by Iraq.110This language about al Qaedas understanding with Iraq had been dropped, however, when a superseding indictment was filed in November 1998.111 So Clarke and Berger both knew about the Saddam-al Qaida connection - not some tenuous connection but "the agreement" (probably a direct result of the IraqAl Qida agreement. ) and Iraqi WMD (VX precursor traces found near al Shifa were the exact formula used by Iraq.).
Guess I missed that.
To: P-40
39 posted on
04/22/2006 1:01:22 PM PDT by
Peach
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