VANITY: Defeat the leftist lies that Al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq before the war

Various News and Govermental Sources ^ | June 14, 2006 | Peach

[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.

[DocRock]

Just right click on the pic and choose "save picture as" and you'll have a copy, too. I think I have a different shot also, and I plan on looking tomorrow on my other computer.

On a completely different topic, I was looking into the connection of Osama and the attempt to blow up a nuclear reactor during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. I don't want to hijack Peach's thread, however, I have in-laws in Australia. Some are pro-America and some are openly hostile. The ones that are pro-America told me right after 9/11 that Osama had tried to blow up a nuclear reactor in downtown Sydney. These in-laws visited Bali just before the attack on Australians vacationing there. I found a lot of info online, but have not heard many references to this foiled "dirty bomb" nuclear attempt on the 2000 Olympics. Here is a link for your future reference: LINK Note that this is before the attack on America for those on the left that think "America had it coming".

[goodnesswins]

WOW! and Bookmarked....and sending some faxes, etc.

[RDTF]

the thing that bothers me the most about this is the Administration's lack of efforts to expose this

[GOP-Pat]

Do you think e-mails, phone calls or hard letters are more effective?

Faxes and phone calls are best.

[fight_truth_decay]

...now known as Ansar al-Islam ..
The groups (tribes) seem to change their names at what I would suggest "suspicious time-frames" in and about horrific acts of violence; but the players remain the same.

[Dolphy]

Thanks for all of the links. I put the handling of this issue right up there with the retraction of the 16 words in the SOTU (Plame mess) when it comes to administration mysteries that I would like to unravel.

Some, like Laurie Mylroie, would say that they have been silenced by a rogue element in the CIA. If they are right then you are exactly on target here, Peach. We have to be the ones who make this an issue. This has to get a life independent of the administration.

I'm writing to Hoekstra to start. He's the one who wanted the documents released...and he's in a position to start an investigation.

[fight_truth_decay]

"The 1950s-vintage nuclear reactor in Sydney is not a power plant. It is used for scientific and medical research"

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The reasoning not a plant? and "The Games" mean money, so let's not scare the tourists scenario? However, this shows bin Laden was under surveillance.

A number of transnational Islamist terrorist groups, including the Al-Qaeda of Osama bin Laden, have established a presence in Bangladesh in alliance with the various fundamentalist organisations in the country. Osma bin Laden donates funds to the Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), which has contacts with the Dhaka-based Bangladesh Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJ). The HUJ was established with the aid of Osama Bin Laden in 1992.

The covert activities of Osama bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda came to the fore during the visit of the then United States President, Bill Clinton, to Bangladesh in March 2000. One of the reasons for the cancellation of President Clinton's scheduled visit to Joypura village and the national memorial at Savan was due to the threats that emanated from the Al-Qaeda.

A number of terrorist groups, both regional organizations such as the Abu Sayyaf Group and transnational groups such as Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network were under critical surveillance during the Sydney Olympics for possible acts of terrorism.
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/usa/international_links.htm

[Shelayne]

Thanks, Peach! I have a lot of work to do I see!

I wonder what is up with the new CIA Director, though. Something funny going on there. Gen. Hayden was asked to apologize for and clarify his comments [the Feith thing] from the Senate hearing--in writing and has not done so. I hope he is not another one of those "rogue elements"! UGH!

[Shelayne]

Wow! Great find! I am going to save that photo as well. Thanks for posting it!

[fight_truth_decay]

Perhaps Iraq and 'Doofus Mole-in-a-Hole' Saddam was an easier road to do battle than Iran, was the thought then..

Excerpts from http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/usa/international_links.htm

March 1991, Iran dispatched several terrorist squads to Canada for operations in the U.S., both independently and in support of local networks. One of these hit teams would assassinate Mrs. Rafizadeh, the wife of a senior intelligence official of the Shah's regime, in New Jersey on March 26, 1992. A milestone in the emergence of Islamist terrorism in the U.S. took place on October 18, 1991. The International Terrorist Summit convened in Tehran decided on a rejuvenated Jihad in the U.S. as part of the Iranian-led pan-Islamist strategy of confronting Pax-Americana.

From December 1992 through January 1993, Iran conducted a strategic test of the entire concept of a US operation. Former foreign minister Ibrahim Yazdi arrived on a secret mission with a reconciliation initiative at the same time that Tehran transmitted through back channels an explicit threat of "war between the SAVAMA and the CIA." Yazdi's initiative was rebuffed. On January 24, 1993, Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani Iranian agent, killed several people at the entrance to the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, demonstrating that Tehran was serious. From January 22-26, 1993, Tehran further tested the U.S. reaction system in the form of phone calls from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine threatening to blow up a skyscraper in New York.

Assumed: Since there was no special reaction from Washington, Tehran concluded that terrorist operations should proceed as planned.

Ali Mohammed, 48, an ex-US Army Sergeant of Egyptian origin pleaded guilty before a US District Judge in October 2000 to a charge of plotting with Osama bin Laden to kill Americans anywhere in the world. He also admitted that he had helped in secretly moving bin Laden from Pakistan to Sudan and trained members of his Al Qaeda outfit. Pakistan and Afghanistan-based Islamist terrorists have recruited members from the Muslim communities in North America as also the Caribbean Islands to utilise them for terrorist operations against US interests in West Asia and also for promoting Jehad in the US. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef of Pakistani origin and other US-based Muslim mercenaries of bin Laden were responsible for the explosion inside the World Trade Centre in February 1993. The Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) are members of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the US and Israel.

Pakistan had disclosed in April 1993 that 6,170 Arab Mujahideen (HuM) were registered for stay in Pakistan. The breakup was as follows:

Egypt 1142, Morocco 102, Saudi Arabia 981, Qatar 92, Yemen 946 , Jordan 77, Algeria 792, Palestine 70 , Iraq 326, Kuwait 60 , Syria 292, Bahrain 35, Sudan 234, Omam 11, Tunisia 117 ,

[fight_truth_decay]

BTT

[DocRock]

"The 1950s-vintage nuclear reactor in Sydney is not a power plant. It is used for scientific and medical research"

I've never heard of it being referred to as a "power plant", only a nuclear reactor. For that matter, in my travels and experience in that city, I've always thought they were a nuclear weapons free zone and I've never heard of a nuclear plant in that area. That is why in my comment I made reference to a "dirty bomb". They intended to blow up this research nuclear reactor to create fallout that would disrupt the Olympics.

Research reactors were pretty common in this country when we entered the nuclear age, however, my latest info suggests that we are now down to about 25 or so.

FReegards,
DocRock

[BigSkyFreeper]

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.

Because there was a democrat in the White House in the 1990's, and journalists are too friggin lazy to do a LexisNexis search of their own archives.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I don't bother e-mailing my Congressman. Everytime I do, I get some dopey autoresponder. Besides, they ain't interested in getting to the truth, they're only interested in getting re-elected.

The White House needs to be out in front on this issue. I've had it with the media, and I don't trust the GOP Congress to carry the White House water.

[Peach]

Hi, Shelayne. I heard Hayden during the hearing say he didn't agree with those memos though and I was so discouraged I nearly bashed my head into a wall. LOL

[Peach]

Writing Hoekstra is a good idea, Dolphy, and I will do so today as well. Thanks for writing.

[Peach]

Thank you, goodnesswins! I appreciate the help.

[windchime]

BUMP!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Good work, Peach.

[AFPhys]

An AWESOME compendium, Peach.

Thanks so much for helping us all discuss this.