Posted on 07/07/2006 6:31:15 AM PDT by ikez78
One of the pillars of the argument that there were “no links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda” is that the captured/defected members from both sides have denied any relationship existed. (The Left makes this claim even though most of the detainees’ interrogation logs remain classified and their contents remain on a need-to-know basis.) This “no connection” claim has been made a number of times, and those making it generally receive favorable media attention; they’re rarely if ever confronted with testimony that conflicts with their argument. I will not argue on behalf of the truthfulness of former Ba’athists and al-Qaeda members, but if their testimony is going to admitted, shouldn’t critics also hear the testimony of those in custody who tell a different story?
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I can't hear you, na, na, na, na.
You'll never convince these people of a connection, they'll claim is is all fabricated.
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Hey - Congratulations, Mark on getting published in Frontpage magazine! They are one of 2 or 3 news organizations on top of this story.
Kudos to you, my friend.
Thank you. Fortunately there's a lot more to tell on this story.
Our freeper friend, Ikez78, had an article published in Frontpage magazine.
Peach, thanks for the ping.
Ikez78, kudos!
Thank you. I do think it's rather arrogant when commentators pretend to tell these al Qaeda terrorists and Baathists that they know more about what those two were doing than they do themselves.
On another thread, George posted a great link where Hitchens's bitch slaps the little Marxist Homosexual Pimp, Ron Reagan with another joining of international Islamofascist serial killers with Iraq before we knocked Saddam out of power.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661785/posts?page=29#29
this was pointed out to me in another (yahoo) forum. It is an index of translated Al-Q documents being studied at West Point, pertaining to the Org, goals, tactics, etc, most of which dovetail with the subj of your piece.
http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony_docs.asp
Thanks. I've reviewed many of those for a piece I have coming out soon.
I don't think Iraq was the only place that al Qaeda fled to after Afghanistan was liberated but it was one and it was the most dangerous (from our perspective) that al Qaeda terrorists could be.
"If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons?
He's already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons.
He poison-gassed his own people.
He used poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors.
This man has no compunction about killing lots and lots of people...."
-- Al Gore, Dec. 16, 1998
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Great stuff Ikez78. Thanks for your hard work. Keep it up!
I noticed your references was very lacking in MSM sources. I suspect they are uncovering similar connections. However, since this does not fit their template, they are killing it. What are your thoughts?
I talk to people from the AP, WashPost, NYTimes and LATimes regularly about Iraq, al Qaeda and other stuff. Usually they have no problem exchanging ideas.
When it comes to this topic there is a wall, they just won't discuss it other than to say it's impossible that there was a relationship. They have zero interest in this story unless evidence came out to PROVE the two were working AGAINST each other.
Normally, I wouldn't believe that reporters were that biased, but since I see it firsthand, daily I have no other conclusion to reach.
7 Jun Ten People Arrested in Milan for Supporting Al Qaida
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...
7 Jun London Link to Italian al-Qaeda Raid
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...
7 Jun U.S. Forces Kill Two Al Qaida in Raid
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21285044.shtml
U.S. forces in Iraq killed two members of al-Qaida and detained 10 others Wednesday during raids targeting a bomb-making operation in Baghdad...
7 Jun Pentagon Says Al Qaeda Leader Captured in East Africa
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.
Whitman said Arale was suspected of acting as a courier between Al Qaeda in East Africa and Al Qaeda in Pakistan and helping the Africans get weapons and explosives...
7 Jun Saudi Arrests 11 Al Qaeda Members
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/07/saudi.arrest/
Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry announced Thursday it had arrested 11 al Qaeda members in the span of 48 hours who were responsible for financing and encouraging terrorism. A ministry statement quoting a senior ministry official said the detainees were wanted terrorists in Saudi Arabia, that their assets have been frozen and an investigation into the incident is ongoing. On Tuesday the ministry announced it had arrested three senior al Qaeda members responsible for recruiting youths via the internet and encouraging attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities...
7 Jun Iraqi Police Capture Local Al Qaida Leader North of Baghdad
http://english.people.com.cn/200706/07/eng20070607_381934.html
Iraqi security forces captured the local leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq in eastern Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, and wounded four of his guards early on Wednesday, a provincial police said on Thursday...
Iraqi security forces have been tipped off by residents of Albu Ajil suburb, 5 km to the east of Tikrit, the source said...
6 Jun U.S. Forces Kill Al Qaeda Leader in Baghdad
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,’ ...
...[t]he death is the third reported killing of an Al-Qaeda street captain since last week, when some Sunni nationalist insurgents once opposed to the US military fell out with Al-Qaeda’s Islamist extremists and changed sides.
6 Jun Suspected Al Qaeda Leader, 17 Others Detained
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.
Based on information from a suspected terrorist detained May 29, Coalition Forces captured an alleged al-Qaeda facility manager who operates a safe house southwest of Tarmiyah.
In Mosul, Coalition Forces raided two buildings and detained two suspected terrorists, one of whom is allegedly the assistant to a senior terrorist leader captured May 29...
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