Al Qaeda Ties? Notice the airliner (Sept 11, 2001), and train cars, (Madrid 3/11/04), in the Salman Pac terrorist training facility outside Baghdad in this 2000 satellite photo. Click the image to get high resolution.
Posted on 06/14/2006 8:52:58 AM PDT by Peach
Two major issues were used by the President in the run up to war with Iraq. One was the WMD issue and the other was Iraq's support for Al Qaeda.
Since the war began in March 2003, the Democrats and media have repeatedly lied to the American public that Saddam didn't have a relationship with Al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden. They have been permitted to lie without challenge by Congressional Republicans or the President or his administration.
It is well past time that we educate Republican Congressmen and the conservative media, and try to encourage Tony Snow and Karl Rove on the importance of not letting this lie go unchallenged.
Since the 1990's, the media wrote dozens and dozens of articles about the world's alarm at the growing relationship Saddam and Iraqi military officers had with Al Qaeda and bin Laden. In the next post, I will detail some of those links.
Additionally, our very own freeper, translator and national treasure, jveritas, has translated documents which show that Saddam had direct ties to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
It is my firm belief that if more Americans knew about the relationships discussed above, support for the war and our beloved military would increase substantially. The media has gotten away with this lie for long enough.
I am looking for specific suggestions on how to get the word out to the administration with the suggestion they use this evidence of a relationship between Saddam and the jihadists more often, and how to directly write or call our Congressmen, the media, Ken Mehlman as Chair of the GOP, talk radio hosts, etc.
Thanks Madame Dufarge! All of it helps.
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The left have discredit Laurie Mylroie.
If I use Mylroie's articles to back up my point...they call her a crazy lady.
"She's apart of the neo-cons who wanted to go to war with Iraq."
But the lady makes alot of sense.
Didn't she work with Judith Miller on a book?
Didn't the 911 Families sue the Iraqi Intelligence and al Queda? What happen to that case?
When the left tells you that Laurie Mylroie is discredited, ask them why. She was one of Clinton's anti-terrorism czars.
That's exactly what I wanted. THank you!
Hi, stopem. I don't keep a ping list but if I do something in the future, I'll remember your name!
All of these articles and sources need to be sent out to Representatives and Senators of blue and red stripes. Inform the media that they need to show the correct side not just the biased liberal anti-American side. Keep the pressure up!
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I have a 400 point timeline (that took me over 2 years to complete)of links between Iraq and al Qaeda (chronological order by actual events NOT by when stories were written). I've been sitting on it for a while trying to get it published in a major magazine. Apparently it is too large to do so but I want everyone to see and know this information. IF you have suggestions how to expose this please private mail me.
Well, Laurie Mylroie is my hero.
Even though she was Clinton's anti-terrorism czar...the left claims she is a neo-con who can't be trusted because she sided with the Bush team.
I really like reading Laurie Mylroie articles but she's been real quite. The left has done a good job smearing her creditablity and making her into a crackpot. During the 911 Commission, the press totally ignored her comments. You have to dig through 911 web page to read her testimony. Makes you sick!
Strange thing is she has credentials to back her up.
"She has a doctorate in Political Science from Harvard University and was employed in the Government Department there. She was an associate professor at the U.S. Naval War College, and advisor on Iraq to Bill Clinton in his 1992 campaign for President.
She is now an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Mylroie
She's no fool and I think she's 100% correct about everything. I even believe OKC Bombing theory. Why not?
Tim McVeigh's ilk hated the United States Government and so did Islamofacist.
Richard Clarke also came up with this theory too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh
Okay sounds good. Thank you.
Thank you, Tx Angel. I hope you can send a letter or e-mail or two using the links in #2.
I've always liked her too, Milligan. She wrote a book with Judith Miller years ago that I read about Saddam; I think it was written in the early to mid 80's, IIRC.
You have freepmail ikez78 with what I hope are helpful suggestions. And good luck with your enterprising and important project. If there is some way I can help, please feel free to freepmail me.
Thanks for bringing ikez78's post to my attention, eyespy.
ping for future reference
as soon as I saw this topic, I clicked on it to see if it was your thread; it was and THANK YOU!
Two things. Enough Dems in high places re: Clinton, Kerry, Gore, KNOW these things. But, they've chosen to smear and lie to gain power. Disgusting. Thank you for all that you have down these past few years and for all that you continue to do!
After Kurdish forces took control of Iraq's three northern provinces following the government's withdrawal in October 1991, numerous opposition groups operated in the region. Islamist political forces in Iraqi Kurdistan, which are exclusively Sunni Muslim, were represented in the Islamic Movement in Kurdistan (IMK), established in 1987. The IMK brought together several factions, some of whose members had fought in Afghanistan during the 1980s. By the mid-1990s the IMK was considered the third most significant political and military force in the Kurdish region, after the KDP and the PUK. After unsuccessfully contesting the 1992 parliamentary elections, the IMK operated largely outside the framework of the joint Kurdish administration, focusing instead on developing and strengthening a separate administrative, political and military infrastructure in areas under its control, notably in Hawraman and Sharazur, which bordered the region controlled by the PUK. In December 1993 tensions between the IMK and the PUK peaked in armed clashes in parts of Sulaimaniya and Kirkuk provinces. The IMK was forced to retreat to areas close to the border with Iran. The leadership left the eastern region altogether and for some months remained under KDP protection in Salahuddin. When increasing tensions between the KDP and the PUK deteriorated into armed clashes in May 1994, IMK forces fought alongside the KDP against the PUK. Eventually, the IMK leadership was able to return to its strongholds in Hawraman and Sharazur, and to establish its headquarters in the city of Halabja.
The IMK splintered over power struggles as well as policy differences. In May 2001 'Ali Bapir, a long-time IMK military commander, announced the formation of the Islamic Group in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Several smaller factions within the IMK, which espoused a more puritanical and ultra-orthodox Islamic ideology, also broke away from the movement at different times. Some opposed any form of cooperation with "secular" political parties and disagreed with the IMK's 1997 decision to participate in the PUK regional government. They also called for stricter application of the shari'a (Islamic law) in IMK-held areas.
Of these factions, the most important militarily was a group known as the Soran Forces. It consisted of several hundred armed fighters (said to include non-Iraqi Arabs), some of who had fought in Afghanistan. A second faction was the Islamic Unification Movement (IUM, or al-Tawhid), said to be the most extremist of the splinter groups. Composed of some thirty or forty individuals, the IUM based itself for a time in Balek, in the Qandil mountains near Haj Omran and close to the Iran border. A third group, Hamas, also opposed the IMK's decision to participate in the PUK regional government. Among its stated aims was to launch attacks on secular institutions in Iraqi Kurdistan, including Western humanitarian and relief organizations.
The emergence of Ansar al-Islam
These smaller breakaway factions themselves gradually merged. In July 2001, al-Tawhid joined with Hamas to form the Islamic Unity Front (IUF), which the Soran Forces also joined the following month. On September 1, 2001, the IUF was dissolved and its three component groups announced the formation of Jund al-Islam. The group promptly declared jihad (holy war) against secular and other political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan deemed to have deviated from the "true path of Islam". Following armed clashes in which the PUK defeated Jund al-Islam, the group was dissolved in December 2001 and renamed Ansar al-Islam. A long-time member of the IMK, Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, known as Mala Fateh Krekar, became its amir (leader).
Ansar al Islam, which operates in northeastern Iraq, has close links to and support from al-Qaida. Al-Qaida and Usama Bin Laden participated in the formation and funding of the group, which has provided safehaven to al-Qaida in northeastern Iraq.
The group's fighters are also believed to have trained with al-Qaida and U.S. officials suspect it of helping hide al-Qaida members fleeing Afghanistan.
Video about Trainings of Ansar al Islam in Northern Iraq before American Invasion:
http://www.archive.org/details/filmqademminafghanistan
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/ansar_al_islam.htm
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/mena/ansarbk020503.htm
Whoa! I hope you have submitted some of that to bloggers or reporters because there's an awful lot of information in there they could use.
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