Posted on 11/17/2006 3:07:29 AM PST by Dallas59
A senior al-Qaida operative deliberately planted information to encourage the US to invade Iraq, a double agent who infiltrated the network and spied for western intelligence agencies claimed last night.
The claim was made by Omar Nasiri, a pseudonym for a Moroccan who says he spent seven years working for European security and intelligence agencies, including MI5. He said Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, who ran training camps in Afghanistan, told his US interrogators that al-Qaida had been training Iraqis.
Libi was captured in November 2001 and taken to Egypt where he was allegedly tortured. Asked on BBC2's Newsnight whether Libi or other jihadists would have told the truth if they were tortured, Nasiri replies: "Never"....
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
A) it's the Guardian, B) it's al Quaeda.
Since when do two wrongs make a right?
If that's the case, how come Nasiri didn't simply tell the intelligence agencies that he believed Libi was lying? Why wait until now?
Yeah right.
LOL. My wife, still laying in bed asked, "Who wrote that POS article, The Guardian?" when I read the headline.
I'm not convinced.
Well Blair and Bush planted false info to encourage the invasion, I can't see why AQ didn't have a go too!
Asked on BBC2's Newsnight whether Libi or other jihadists would have told the truth if they were tortured, Nasiri replies: "Never"....
Well if that's the case, Nasiri, explain how come all that lying your jihadi friends are doing to our interrogators [torture or not] is resulting in the coalition rounding up thousands of your weenie brethren around the globe?
Though he did not name Libi, Mr Powell said "a senior terrorist operative" who "was responsible for one of al-Qaida's training camps in Afghanistan" had told US agencies that Saddam Hussein had offered to train al-Qaida in the use of "chemical or biological weapons".
What is new, if Nasiri is to be believed, is that the leading al-Qaida operative wanted to overthrow Saddam and use Iraq as a jihadist base. Nasiri also says that part of al-Qaida training was to withstand interrogation and provide false information.
I wouldn't trust the Guardian as far as I could spit on it, which isn't very far... but the question isn't whether someone from Al-Qaeda said things abont WMDs in iraq (which they did), it's whether they did it deliberatly to foment a war... which I think is possible though unlikely (they actually did personally hate Saddam - at least before he starting invading places !|). Let's face it, the bad intel had to come from somewhere.
No they didn't.
New lib storyline: al Qaeda tricked Bush & Co. into invading Iraq.
Anything to get the House Dems out of the spotlight.
We need more Ham in our "torture" techniques...
If AQ "tricked" the US into a war in Iraq, you have to wonder why. AQ has supposedly lost substantial numbers, including some key leaders in Iraq.
Why don't you tell us just what information Bush and Blair "planted" in order to justify invading Iraq?
Maybe you hadn't heard but Joe Wilson told our Congress privately that Iraq WAS trying to purchase yellowcake uranium from Niger. Of course, he lied and told the American public something else again. All in order to sell a book.
So spill. Tell us specifically what lies Bush and Blair told. I'll bet you can't.
I don't know if this is correct, but I believe Bush has all along been fighting two wars. One abroad and one here at home at STATE DEPT. Because his insistance on being MODERATE, he just won't go in for the kill, and that's his fault. We are not fighting a conventional war over a piece of dirt, these wars are spiritual, fight to the death. Because the fight is with terrorist and the secular culturist there will be no surrender unless WE do. If anyone should know this, it should be Bush.
Someone set this adminstration up and has taken advantage of Bush's compassion.
That would replace the old headline, which was "Iran tricks Bush and company into invading Iraq." (That's what the Washington Post was reporting a couple of years ago; supposedly Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress fed our intelligence agencies lies about Iraqi WMD and so forth, and supposedly Chalabi is an Iranian agent. Iran would do such a thing to get rid of Saddam, to free the Iraqi Shiites, and to get us bogged down so that we couldn't attack Iran.)
If al Qaeda was not in Afghanistan, then how did they plant the information?
While I question this statement you just made - where's your evidence?? - I have to say, enjoyed some of your posts on other threads.
Yes, I was checking you out as you're a relative newbie.
Good luck getting people to use correct terminology! Scotlander and Scotch, eh? And I thought it was a Liverpool kiss??
Are you on the Ireland ping? You might be interested in some of the articles Irish_Thatcherite posts.
please consider the source its the way way way left wing rag called the guardian for god sakes.
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