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Iraqi Intel Memo Describes Osama Connection
Captain's Quarters ^ | 7/24/06 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 07/24/2006 9:49:28 PM PDT by Enchante

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1 posted on 07/24/2006 9:49:29 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: jveritas; Fedora; Howlin; ravingnutter; piasa; Peach; Grampa Dave; pinz-n-needlez; canadianally; ...

My oh my, evidence from 4 days after 9/11 of connection between Iraq, Taliban, and Al Qaeda? Who coulda thunk it?


2 posted on 07/24/2006 9:52:01 PM PDT by Enchante (Democrats: Trust Nancy Pelosi to Win the War on Terror!! (gag))
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To: Enchante

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...


3 posted on 07/24/2006 9:54:48 PM PDT by Element187
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To: Element187

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?


4 posted on 07/24/2006 10:04:45 PM PDT by farfromhome (What does this button d.....)
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To: farfromhome

Heh...

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5 posted on 07/24/2006 10:09:11 PM PDT by oolatec
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To: Enchante

The Captain has been doing a great job of tracking this stuff. He needs a newspaper of his own.


6 posted on 07/24/2006 10:15:07 PM PDT by Brimack34
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To: Enchante
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.

spot on assessment by that analyst. >:)

7 posted on 07/25/2006 12:47:58 AM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Enchante

Thanks for the ping. Yet more info that shows they had ties. Gotta get ready for work.


8 posted on 07/25/2006 2:58:48 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Enchante; ikez78
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.

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.

9 posted on 07/25/2006 4:53:36 AM PDT by Peach (Prayers for our dear friends in Israel.)
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To: Enchante
I posted this translation back on March 16 2006.

Document: Afghani Taliban Consul Spoke of a Relationship Between Iraq and Bin Laden: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597459/posts

10 posted on 07/25/2006 6:01:32 AM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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There could hardly be a clearer case--of the ongoing revelations and the ongoing denial--than in the 13 points below, reproduced verbatim from a "Summary of Evidence" prepared by the U.S. government in November 2004. This unclassified document was released by the Pentagon in late March 2005. It details the case for designating an Iraqi member of al Qaeda, currently detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an "enemy combatant."

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.

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.

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.

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.

More at:

The Mother of All Connections

11 posted on 07/25/2006 6:13:21 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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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.


12 posted on 07/25/2006 8:09:36 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: jveritas

Great job, thanks!! You are far more on top of this than the entire US government......


13 posted on 07/25/2006 9:31:23 AM PDT by Enchante (Democrats: Trust Nancy Pelosi to Win the War on Terror!! (gag))
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To: Grampa Dave

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.


14 posted on 07/25/2006 9:36:00 AM PDT by Peach (Prayers for our dear friends in Israel.)
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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.


15 posted on 07/25/2006 9:37:27 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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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?

Maybe Michael Ledeen has mentioned it....?

16 posted on 07/25/2006 10:29:49 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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The Captain has been doing a great job of tracking this stuff. He needs a newspaper of his own.

Maybe we should send him one of these.


17 posted on 07/25/2006 11:15:12 AM PDT by ASA Vet (3.03)
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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?


18 posted on 07/25/2006 11:52:33 AM PDT by Peach (Prayers for our dear friends in Israel.)
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To: jveritas

have you emailed Captain Ed?


19 posted on 07/25/2006 12:33:41 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

"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.


20 posted on 07/25/2006 1:59:16 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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