Document shows Saddam-Taliban ties (Liberals will keep denying it...)

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | June 13, 2006

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

A newly released document from Iraq demonstrates a relationship between former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and terrorist groups – including the Islamic-based Taliban, which harbored al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

The document, posted by the Pentagon's Foreign Military Studies Office, indicates that in 1999 the Taliban invited Iraqi officials to Afghanistan, Fox News reports.

While some intelligence analysts have insisted Saddam's secular regime would not have collaborated with radical Muslim groups, the document says "Islamic relations with Iraq" were encouraged by the Taliban to arbitrate a meeting with the Northern Alliance rebels in Afghanistan and Russia.

The document also mentions two men with ties to Pakistani religious schools, jihad training camps, the Taliban and al-Qaida.

An Iraqi intelligence agent kept a notebook, posted on the Fox News Channel website, that details meetings between al-Qaida and Taliban supporter Maulana Fazlur Rahman and Taha Yassin Ramadan, the former vice president of Iraq, along with other Iraqi officials.

Ramadan was Saddam's right-hand-man, in charge of ensuring orders were carried out by Iraqi officials. A 2002 BBC article stated, "Washington showed considerable interest in him well before the Iraq war."

In the story, opposition forces also claimed Ramadan hosted al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, in Baghdad in 1998.

The notebook also recorded Maulana Fazlur Rahman as being at the discussion. Rahman has been described as a Pakistani cleric with ties to the Taliban who is a contender for the position of prime minister.

As WorldNetDaily reported, among many documents posted by the Pentagon in March was a letter from a member of Saddam's intelligence apparatus indicating al-Qaida and the Taliban had a relationship with the regime prior to the 9-11 attacks.

The letter by a member of Saddam's Al Mukabarat to a superior, dated Sept. 15, 2001, reports a pre-9/11 conversation between an Iraqi intelligence source and a Taliban Afghani consul.

>Earlier this month, a newly translated document captured from the Saddam regime revealed Iraq's hiding of chemical-weapons materials and the location of their burial.

In 2003, a 16-page top secret government memo to the Senate Intelligence Committee said bin Laden and Saddam had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, as well as financial and logistical support, and may have included the bombing of the USS Cole and the Sept. 11 attacks.

"The memo, dated Oct. 27, 2003, was sent from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith to Senators Pat Roberts and Jay Rockefeller, the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee," reported the Weekly Standard. It was written in response to a request from the committee as part of its investigation into prewar intelligence claims made by the administration.

According to the Weekly Standard, the memo reports Saddam's willingness to help bin Laden plot against Americans began in 1990, shortly before the first Gulf War, and continued until the eve of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. It says bin Laden sent ''emissaries to Jordan in 1990 to meet with Iraqi government officials.'' At some unspecified point in 1991, according to a CIA analysis, ''Iraq sought Sudan's assistance to establish links to al-Qaida.''

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Bump.

[Wil H]

Nothing to see here - move on...

[Peach]

Great thread; thanks for posting it.

So not only did Saddam work with Al Qaeda from the early 1990's until before the war, he worked with the Taliban. Good work on the part of the translators.

I wish the administration would start really pounding these facts home. Maybe we need to flood Rove's office with e-mail.

[eyespysomething]

Thanks for posting this CCF.

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[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping!

[bpjam]

Holy Crap!!! How is this not headline news?!!?

[John W]

It should be.What will be interesting some day is to know why some folks are so adamant-in the face of all reality-that there was no connection between Saddam and the perpetrators of 9/11.My thought, they will be discovered to have been in some kind of relationship with Saddam and desperatley want to avoid even a second degree connection to the 9/11 killers.

[eyespysomething]

Because people love power more than America?

Because they hate GWBush more than they love their country and its citizens?

[jazusamo]

Thanks for posting CCF and the ping eyespy, good piece.

[bpjam]

I get depressed realizing that you are likely correct.

[eyespysomething]

Me too.

But at least this is making the rounds. Again. And its on Fox News too, so... **fingers crossed**

[N2Gems]

ping

[BARLF]

In January,2002 Jay Rockefeller went to Syria, Saudia Arabia and Jordan giving a heads up that Bush was going to war with Iraq.

So, what did JR know before this 2003 info that was sent to he and Pat Roberts?

Whatever happened to the investigation on JR and his treasonous trip to these three countries?

Thanks es for the ping

[Madame Dufarge]

Thanks for the ping.

MSM useful idiot bump.

[pissant]

Great. the evidence keeps piling up. Pretty soon, the MSM will be forced to cover it.

[sine_nomine]

Liberals lied while brave men died.

Knowing how much oil money Saddam had, how easily corrupted Western diplomats and journalists are, and how much he hated America for bloodying his nose (but whimping out), I am not surprised at these new facts.

I question whether the administration will do anything. Senior officials have conceded that there were no WMDs, but we know - don't we - that Russian special forces moved them for Saddam.

I looked deep into Pooty Poot's eyes and saw another Russian pathological liar. I wonder what W. saw.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Everyone knows Saddam and OBL would never work together.

Saddam only funds Hamas homicide bombers, and OBL only offers "a long term true" to "the Crusaders" that he swore "Holy Jihad" against...

But they NEVER EVER NEVER EVER would have worked together because like cBS has reported over and over and over again, they did not like each other. No they did not and you can't say they did!

IS THAT CLEAR?