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Al Qaeda, Saddam
Washington Times ^ | Published April 26, 2006 | By Helle Dale

Posted on 04/26/2006 3:10:53 PM PDT by april15Bendovr

Al Qaeda, Saddam By Helle Dale Published April 26, 2006

Bad news about Iraq is not hard to come by in current media coverage. Terrorist attacks on Iraqi citizens and U.S.troops are recorded day by day. Mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by Iraqi security forces leaps to the headlines. Calls for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's resignation are gathering steam among Democrats on Capitol Hill, with Congress set to debate the issue next week.

When it comes to any good news out of Iraq, the liberal media are negligent or simply silent. And if there is new information corroborating the reasons the United States went to war against Saddam Hussein in the first place, it is of no consequence to the media, which long ago decided that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs were a figment of President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair's fevered imaginations. And of course, in their view, there's no shred of evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda. All of which will surely go down in journalistic annals of disgrace.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaedaandiraq; helledale; iraq; saddam

1 posted on 04/26/2006 3:10:54 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: april15Bendovr

The Washington Times....the best op-ed section in America that no one reads.


2 posted on 04/26/2006 3:15:07 PM PDT by misterrob (Death once came calling for Jack Bauer. Death went home to mommy with a wedgie and no lunch money)
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To: april15Bendovr; All
Connect the Dots . . . Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden
3 posted on 04/26/2006 3:19:48 PM PDT by NewLand (Posting against liberalism since the 20th century!)
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To: april15Bendovr
It is now irrefutable to deny Saddam and al Qaeda had working connections for terrorism and the training thereof.

Want good news? Front line news? News from our military? (Go here!)

4 posted on 04/26/2006 3:23:43 PM PDT by yoe
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To: april15Bendovr

That there was a collaborative relationship between Saddam and Bin Ladin is pretty clear. The only question is whether Saddam was Bin Ladin's enabler or whether Saddam was the finger on Bin Ladin's trigger.

He was one or the other, and its looking more like #2 every day.


5 posted on 04/26/2006 4:04:32 PM PDT by marron
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To: misterrob
"Piles and piles of its intelligence documents have been captured by U.S. forces, but have until recently been classified in bulk. Two million documents were released in February by the U.S. government, and of them, only some 5 percent , or 100,000, have been translated. Even so, the evidence that's already emerging of Saddam's dealings with Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda operatives is highly incriminating. This should be front-page news."

I'm afraid not that many people read or have knowledge about the Docex Project here at Free Republic.

I'm guessing about 5% of Freepers read any posts on the topic.

I hope I'm wrong.

6 posted on 04/26/2006 4:07:57 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: april15Bendovr

You lost me after..."Piles and piles of its intelligence documents"


7 posted on 04/26/2006 4:11:00 PM PDT by misterrob (Death once came calling for Jack Bauer. Death went home to mommy with a wedgie and no lunch money)
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To: All
Looks like once again the lowbrow news overpowers the more important issues of our country.


I guess American Idol, Aruba and the Duke University Rape news take precedence over links between Saddam and Al Qaeda.

If Iraq is the #1 issue causing President Bush's low approval ratings next to gasoline I guess we all can figure out why. The liberals love Americas attention deficit problems.

8 posted on 04/26/2006 6:25:05 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: All

links for those that would like to get caught up.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616487/posts

Iraq Is the War on Terror
National Review ^ | 4/17/06 | Andrew C. McCarthy


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617310/posts

Iraq Documents Prove Saddam-Osama Relationship, Meanwhile Congress Bans Use of Jewish Bullets
Rush Limbaugh ^ | April 18, 2006

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613543/posts

Cheney: Iraq Documents Show Saddam-Osama Tie
NewsMax.com ^ | Carl Limbacher


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606094/posts

Iraq's terror ties
Idaho Mountain Express ^ | Wednesday April12, 2006 | DAVID REINHARD


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1604459/posts

Iraqi Documents Are Put on Web, and Search Is On [FR's jveritas makes the news]
NY Times ^ | March 28, 2006 | SCOTT SHANE

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603764/posts

The Paper Trail [Saddam/terrorism/WMD]
Wall Street Journal Online ^ | March 27, 2006 | By LAURIE MYLROIE


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603919/posts

The Tipping Point of Truth
Front Page Magazine ^ | March 27, 2006 | By Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1604262/posts

Something New . . . Condoleezza Rice sees significance in the Saddam documents.
Weekly Standard ^ | 03/27/2006 12:00:00 AM | by Stephen F. Hayes

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603696/posts

Saddam Regime Document: Give CNN the Priority for Coverage (Translation)
Pentagon/FMSO website about Iraqi Pre-War documents ^ | March 26 2006 | jveritas


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1570495/posts

Questions on DOCEX (Stephen Hayes documents found in Iraq)
Weekly Standard ^ | 2/1/06 | Stephen Hayes

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618031/posts

FReeper jveritas on kvi radio now (vanity)
KVI Radio ^ | 4-18-06 | self

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613625/posts

The Saddam Files [jveritas and Free Republic mentioned]
The American Thinker ^ | April 12, 2006 | Clarice Feldman

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1610476/posts

Baathist papers confirm Hussein's terrorist ties (FR's jveritas credited)
Scripps Howard News Service ^ | 06-APR-06 | By DEROY MURDOCK

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611823/posts

Saddam Targeted American Assets For Terrorism: Case Closed Jveritas translation confirmed ....
Captain's Quarters ^ | April 8, 2006 08:45 PM | Captain Ed

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622252/posts

FREEPER jveritas on KFI with John Ziegler -- talking about Iraq translated documents
KFI 640, Los Angeles | 4-26-06 | dfu


9 posted on 04/27/2006 10:53:30 AM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: misterrob

A lot of people don't know it, but the truth is that the Washington Times has a bigger national circulation outside the D.C. metropolitan area than the Post.


10 posted on 04/27/2006 10:54:38 AM PDT by jpl
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To: jpl

Treu but their nantional circulation numbers are still rather small. Goes to show you how liberal the DC/NVA/MD area is.


11 posted on 04/27/2006 11:52:39 AM PDT by misterrob (Death once came calling for Jack Bauer. Death went home to mommy with a wedgie and no lunch money)
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I would like to add a link that eyespysomething has provided in many of his posts titled prewardocs


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=prewardocs


12 posted on 05/01/2006 4:23:51 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
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"I'm guessing about 5% of FReepers read any posts on the topic."

I don't really mean to be insulting so I should restate what I really mean. I want to clarify that there are many posts on the topic but not a large amount of replies which worries me. Are people comprehending the importance of this material?

Are the majority of FReepers appreciating the connections and links between Saddam and Al Qaeda that the Harmony documents and the Docex Project have exposed?

Priority wise this is the #1 news event on Free Republic due to how the Democrats and liberals demonize President Bush. If we don't become activists on these topics than these reports turn to dust. Lowbrow news will rule the day.

I'm still trying to figure out what happened with Curt Weldon's work on Operation Able Danger?

13 posted on 05/01/2006 4:50:22 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
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