Saddam, Al Qaeda, Taliban: OPERATIONAL TIES

FoxNews ^ | 7/7/2006 | FoxNews

[Maelstrom]

That's our job now.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Blogosphere is hard at work:

From Powerline:

July 06, 2006
Outside the box... ( Saddam was out )

**********************************AN EXCERPT ********************************

Many of those who argue that the U.S. did not need to take military action against Saddam Hussein claim that he posed no threat because he was "in his box." But the idea that an anti-American psychopath like Saddam would be content to reside in a box created by the U.S. is highly implausible and contrary to the evidence. Many of the things that Saddam did in the late 1990s and early 2000s (sending folks to Niger to talk about obtaining yellow-cake, establising contacts with al-Qaeda, subsidizing Palestinian terrorsts) can be viewed as an attempt to operate outside the box.

Now Fox News reports that "an Arab regime, possibly Iraq, supplied how-to manuals for Arab operatives working throughout Afghanistan before 9/11, and provided military assistance to the Taliban and Al Qaeda." Fox News bases this conclusion on "an apparent training manual unearthed in captured Iraqi government computer files."

[edzo4]

weren't the documents that were translated captured notes of an iraqi officer?

[DoctorMichael]

Thanks. This important information (and justification for taking out the Butcher of Bhagdad) needs to be force-fed through the media. It has been commented on here and elsewhere that there is a lot that we haven't been told. I'm sure some of this, while maybe not definitively known at the time of the invasion, has been in back-channel rumors for years.

[Maelstrom]

All right...we have some of the Left's early attempts at denial.

They center upon the author of the article, one blogger by the name of "Ray Robison".

Noteably, the government's clearing-house for the document is available from the linked articles.

Also noteably, the TRANSLATOR's name is "Sammi" and NOT "Ray Robison".

Good luck ladies & gents.

[WOSG]

Saddam-AQ operational ties? - PING for later reading.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We have a resident translator also.

[Maelstrom]

Do we really?

Can we ping that guy and get some verification of the translation from "Sammi" who now seems to be Robison's man?

[Maelstrom]

The link to the raw document can be found here:

http://70.168.46.200/searchResults.aspx?keyword=ISGP-2003-00014127&topPagination=&botPagination=

The diary itself here:

Search Results for keyword (ISGP-2003-00014127) - 1 records
ISGP-2003-00014127
Title: SECRET MEETING WITH TALIBAN GROUP MEMBER AND IRAQI GOVERNMENT

* ISGP-2003-00014127.pdf - Text
http://70.168.46.200/released%5C03-22-06/ISGP-2003-00014127.pdf

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Added the keyword prewardocs.....just click on that,....lots of work going on.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Bump.

[driftless]

"anytime soon"

I too have searched diligently for any news about both the recent wmd announcements and the revelations of Husseins's ties to A-Q. Clearly Big Media does not want this Bush-vindicating news released.

So I still read letter-to-the-editors by frothing at the mouth libs who claim that "Saddam had no ties to Al-Qaeda" and "there were no wmds". I want to get on the horn and call those nuts and ask them to get out of their cave. But the problem is these people (and I have lib friends exactly like them) desperately want to believe in the evil Bush. If reality were to intrude on their senses, their heads might explode.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Read this thread and the LINKS for what can be expected from the Libs push for Multi Culturalism:

Colorado: Man Guilty of Imprisoning Housekeeper ~ not an Infidel - Update...to the slammer

[Republican Wildcat]

bump

[PsyOp]

Mohammed, The Mad Poet Quoted....

[PsyOp]

Bio-Chemical Weapons & Saddam: A History.

[Peach]

That isn't in my list, Ernest. I have a LOT of catching up to do with regard to translated documents and will try and find a few hours over the next week to add some of these important finds.

Thanks for the ping to this and remembering my intense interest in this matter.

[Peach]

Good points about how the left tries to shut down research and the truth about something that is uncomfortable to them.

[RaceBannon]

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http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_52122/world-news/AL-QAIDA-10-people-arrested-in-Milan-for-supporting-Al-Qaida/

Police in Milan on Thursday arrested a group of people who allegedly provided logistical and financial support to the al-Qaida-linked Salafist Group for Call and Combat, Italian officials said.
About 10 people had been arrested, according to a police statement, but officials said the operation in the northern Italian city was still ongoing and it was not yet known how many suspects had been taken into custody...

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1898631.ece

...[i]n a statement, the Metropolitan Police said that from 1997 to 1999, Mr Ignaoua “convinced and organised volunteers to undergo military training in Afghanistan for Jihad with the use of false documentation”.

His arrest was co-ordinated with the Italian police, which this morning carried out simultaneous raids in Milan against a suspected al-Qaeda cell. Italian detectives said they are holding nine terror suspects, all of them Tunisians, who are believed to be members of the North African regional branch of Osama bin Laden’s extremist network...

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http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21285044.shtml

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-terrorjun07,1,2044582.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
...[h]e was identified as Abdullahi Sudi Arale.

“We believe him to be an extremely dangerous member of the Al Qaeda network,” said Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman.

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/07/saudi.arrest/

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http://english.people.com.cn/200706/07/eng20070607_381934.html

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http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2007/06/06/afx3794120.html

...’Yesterday, coalition forces killed a terrorist leader and detained three other suspected terrorists during an operation here in Baghdad to disrupt another network bombing there,’ [BG Bergner] said.
‘Mohammed Mahmud ‘Abd Kadhim Hussein al-Mashadani, also known as Abu Abdullah, was the terrorist killed during the operation,’ ...

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http://www.blackanthem.com/News/Allies_20/Suspected_al-Qaeda_leader_17_others_detained7317.shtml

...[n]orth of Taji, Coalition Forces captured an alleged key leader in the Rusafa vehicle-borne improvised explosive device network. Coalition Forces also detained another suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist on the scene.

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