Posted on 06/11/2006 6:48:24 PM PDT by FairOpinion
What was the relationship between Saddam Hussein's inner circle and Islamic terrorists? A newly released document captured in Iraq, but never before seen by the public, offers glimmers of new insight at the Pentagon's Foreign Military Studies Office Web site. The FMSO is a research and analysis center under the U.S. Army's Training and Doctrine Command. This particular document mentions two men with similar names, each with ties to Pakistani religious schools known as madrassas, Jihad training camps, the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
This original translation by my translator-colleague, who goes by the nom de guerre of "Sammi," comes from a notebook kept by an Iraqi intelligence agent. It provides evidence of a cooperative, operational relationship agreed to at the highest levels of the Iraqi government and the Taliban. The notebook is lengthy and we will present it on the FOX News Web site in a series of postings. It deals extensively with meetings between Maulana Fazlur Rahman, an Al Qaeda/Taliban supporter, and Taha Yassin Ramadan, the former vice president of Iraq, and other unnamed Iraqi officials.
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Good comment. The silence of Big Media on these disclosures is both fascinating and illustrative. If these were indeed forgeries, BM would have jumped all over it. What it means is that they've looked at these documents, and realized that it meant Bush was right about taking out Hussein. All their specious arguments against taking action have been destroyed. So they must ignore them or make light of them. Which I would do in their situation too. If I lacked integrity like they do.
One of the conspirators in the WTC bombing in 1993 was an Iraqi named Abdul Rahman Yasin. After the bombing he went to Baghdad where he was given lodging and support by Hussein. What conclusions do you draw from that?
and buries the info that connects Oklahoma with jihadists, and brushes off the offers of Sudan to hand over OBL -
didn't want to actually work - had golf to play, and other 'in house' games to play - not to mention, he never did anything without checking the poll numbers with breakfast, If He actually DID something, his poll numbers might suffer...
and yet - he and Reno took time to burn women and children to death in Waco and pull a Gestapo raid on little Elian. Go figure
Tony Snow should open with - "I'm sure all you have read the documents linking Saddam and Al Queda - and have lots of questions about them, so I will immediately turn the time over for your well thought out questions>"
"Hello? Hello? Any questions? One question?"
Of course, she'd probably enjoy it too much.
After having their ways with Cindy and Helen Thomas, what else could the camelhumpers ask for?
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SMOKING GUN ON TERRORISM AND IRAQ. INTERESTING.
Tony Snow should open with - "I'm sure all you have read the documents linking Saddam and Al Queda - and have lots of questions about them, so I will immediately turn the time over for your well thought out questions>"
"Hello? Hello? Any questions? One question?"
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And he should do it too.
The article makes a point that they found a document in Afghanistan and one in Iraq which corroborate each other.
There was a thread about whether these documents are forged or not. It had to do with a Congressional oversight committee that had a 2 hours video of the meeting. I watched the entire thing and they questioned the guys from the Pentagon about possibly forgeries.
The short answer is that they are not forged. Before being released to the Harmony database the documents have been scrubbed many times (from the field to the Pentagon) for forgeries and if found to be fake, then they do not release them to the database for the public.
The only reason that they do not give any warranty to the contents is because it is simply impossible for them to validate the contents of some thousands of documents. But as for being fake, they are not.
Hope that helps a bit.
This will be ALL OVER THE NEWS TONIGHT~!!!
wait... this is a few days old...where was it?
It's not just an institutional reluctance to release documents... it's that the documents that have not been translated will almost certainly have information in them on people we are going to want to capture, on front companies and suppliers that we are going to want to investigate, and other countries involvement which me may want to learn more about - and it's generally easier to investigate entities if they don't know how much the investigators have on them.
I was not wondering if they were forgeries. I know they're real. I was just putting myself in the place of the discomfited libs who were hoping that they were forgeries. But they most likely have realized that the docs are the real thing too. Therefore they must quash these revelations because they prove Bush right about Iraq.
The utter lack of interest in these docs by the media is truly amazing. If they had proved Bush wrong about Iraq, they of course would have been frontpage material for months. But they proved him right which is profoundly embarrassing to the left. Therefore total silence.
As you can see in memo-gate, they are experts at determining forgeries. I'm sure the democrats, the left and the MSM will to say these documents are forgeries and will go out of the way to prove this. Remember that one story the MSM ran about the Iraq docs and how they were spun? That Saddam was "frustrated" because he was complying with inspectors so hard when dozens of documents already proved otherwise.
What is so amazing about the left is their willingness to believe Hussein knowing his past...even before the 2003. It's like believing Hitler in 1938. Nevetheless enough hard evidence has come out about Hussein's ties to A-Q and his wmds that will be difficult for the left to spin. But they will try their best.
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