Maybe we should send him one of these.
Posted on 07/24/2006 9:49:28 PM PDT by Enchante
Iraqi Intel Memo Describes Osama Connection
FMSO has translated a new set of documents from those captured in the fall of Saddam Hussein, and one of them seems very provocative indeed. A memo from the Afghan section of the Directorate of Counterintelligence (M5) to the head of M5 dated September 15th, 2001 relays information from an Afghani source that Taliban consul discussed the relationship between Osama, Iraq, and the Taliban. Document CMPC-2003-001488 had previously been translated by Iraqi blogger Omar at Iraq the Model for Pajamas Media last March, but now has been translated by the government:
Office of the Presidency Intelligence Service M5/3/9/2
The Honorable Mr. General Director Manager M5 Subject: Information
Our Afghani source numbered 11002 had provided us with the information on the denotation paper number -1- ) The Afghani Consul Ahmad Dahstani (the information on the denotation paper number (2)) had mentioned in front of him with the followings:
1. Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban Group in Afghanistan were in touch with the Iraqis and that group of the Talibans and Osama Bin Laden had visited Iraq. 2. The United States of America has evidence that the Iraqi government and Osama Bin Laden's group expressed cooperation among themselves in bombing targets in American. 3. In case Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban were proven to have been involved in carrying out these terrorist operations, it could be possible that the United Stated will attack both Iraq and Afghanistan. 4. The Afghani consul heard about the connection between the Iraqis and the Osama Bin Laden group during his stay in Iran. 5. Upon what has been presented we suggest writing to the Intention Committee with the above information.
Please revise…Your recommendation …. With appreciation,
Four days after 9/11, the North Africa and East Asia bureau of the Counterintelligence Directorate appeared very concerned with this information being discussed, so much so that the information went right to the top of the directorate.
My oh my, evidence from 4 days after 9/11 of connection between Iraq, Taliban, and Al Qaeda? Who coulda thunk it?
Doesn't matter .. the socialist MSM has already spun the web so deep that any evidence is just ignored by the American public... Unless Bush can figure out how to release info that would change things ... I'm fearing he will go into the history books as a failure ... although anyone with half a brain know the truth...
Nothing short of a picture of Saddam giving Osama a big wet sloppy kiss will do. Now where did I put that copy of Photoshop?
The Captain has been doing a great job of tracking this stuff. He needs a newspaper of his own.
spot on assessment by that analyst. >:)
Thanks for the ping. Yet more info that shows they had ties. Gotta get ready for work.
It's become an article of faith among the leftists that this isn't possible, not that they are known to let the facts get in the way of their agenda.
Ikez - you'll want to read this if you haven't already. Thanks for the ping, Enchante.
Document: Afghani Taliban Consul Spoke of a Relationship Between Iraq and Bin Laden: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597459/posts
1. From 1987 to 1989, the detainee served as an infantryman in the Iraqi Army and received training on the mortar and rocket propelled grenades.Interesting. What's more interesting: The alleged plot was to have taken place in August 1998, the same month that al Qaeda attacked two U.S. embassies in East Africa. And more interesting still: It was to have taken place in the same month that the Clinton administration publicly accused Iraq of supplying al Qaeda with chemical weapons expertise and material.2. A Taliban recruiter in Baghdad convinced the detainee to travel to Afghanistan to join the Taliban in 1994.
3. The detainee admitted he was a member of the Taliban.
4. The detainee pledged allegiance to the supreme leader of the Taliban to help them take over all of Afghanistan.
5. The Taliban issued the detainee a Kalishnikov rifle in November 2000.
6. The detainee worked in a Taliban ammo and arms storage arsenal in Mazar-Es-Sharif organizing weapons and ammunition.
7. The detainee willingly associated with al Qaida members.
8. The detainee was a member of al Qaida.
9. An assistant to Usama Bin Ladin paid the detainee on three separate occasions between 1995 and 1997.
10. The detainee stayed at the al Farouq camp in Darwanta, Afghanistan, where he received 1,000 Rupees to continue his travels.
11. From 1997 to 1998, the detainee acted as a trusted agent for Usama Bin Ladin, executing three separate reconnaissance missions for the al Qaeda leader in Oman, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
12. In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of blowing up the Pakistan, United States and British embassies with chemical mortars.
13. Detainee was arrested by Pakistani authorities in Khudzar, Pakistan, in July 2002.
We know from these IIS documents that beginning in 1992 the former Iraqi regime regarded bin Laden as an Iraqi Intelligence asset. We know from IIS documents that the former Iraqi regime provided safe haven and financial support to an Iraqi who has admitted to mixing the chemicals for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. We know from IIS documents that Saddam Hussein agreed to Osama bin Laden's request to broadcast anti-Saudi propaganda on Iraqi state-run television. We know from IIS documents that a "trusted confidante" of bin Laden stayed for more than two weeks at a posh Baghdad hotel as the guest of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
We have been told by Hudayfa Azzam, the son of bin Laden's longtime mentor Abdullah Azzam, that Saddam Hussein welcomed young al Qaeda members "with open arms" before the war, that they "entered Iraq in large numbers, setting up an organization to confront the occupation," and that the regime "strictly and directly" controlled their activities. We have been told by Jordan's King Abdullah that his government knew Abu Musab al Zarqawi was in Iraq before the war and requested that the former Iraqi regime deport him. We have been told by Time magazine that confidential documents from Zarqawi's group, recovered in recent raids, indicate other jihadists had joined him in Baghdad before the Hussein regime fell. We have been told by one of those jihadists that he was with Zarqawi in Baghdad before the war. We have been told by Ayad Allawi, former Iraqi prime minister and a longtime CIA source, that other Iraqi Intelligence documents indicate bin Laden's top deputy was in Iraq for a jihadist conference in September 1999.
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Nothing to see here. Just move along. The great and omnipotent MSM has told us that their former golden goose, The $addam had no WMD's.
In fact the DNC has told us that GW is more dangerous than any Islamofacist.
Great job, thanks!! You are far more on top of this than the entire US government......
The new poll numbers in a Harris poll released yesterday show that Americans are slowly getting it - that there was indeed an Iraqi/Al Qaeda connection going back decades.
Something has awaken our moderate friends and acqaintances about the lies of the MSM/left re WMDS and connections of al Qaeda with $addam's Iraq.
Maybe Michael Ledeen has mentioned it....?
Maybe we should send him one of these.
Hi, Ernest. I've heard Netanyau talk about this matter as well. I thought he also said that AQ was a creation of Iraq, but I could be wrong about that. (My memory stinks).
Ike - can you shed any light on Ernest's question in post #16?
have you emailed Captain Ed?
"I want to mention this,...hoping someelse might have heard it also...Israeli Benjamin Netanyau while on Foxnews H & C (I think ) and talking about how this Lebanon action was just a battle in the worldwide War on Terror...mentioned that Al-Queda was a creation of Iran,,....anyone else heard that...or seen any supporting evidence?"
I haven't heard this.
What the hell, we can pretend that we are the MSM and run with this.
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