Cheney asserts Iraq-al Qaeda link ~ on radio show: "They were present before we invaded Iraq."

Cheney asserts Iraq-al Qaeda link

Dick Cheney said al-Qaeda was working in Iraq before the 2003 war

The US still does not know where al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden is

To: The Pack Knight

An even better example is Abdul Rahman Yasin...from my files:

Ramzi Yousef (1993 WTC) and Terry Nichols crossed paths (OKC) in the Phillipines. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (9/11) was Yousef's uncle. It is interesting to note that Yousef entered the United States on an Iraqi passport and had been known among the New York fundamentalists as "Rashid, the Iraqi". Another name that could be thrown into the mix is Abdul Rahman Yasin, a U.S. citizen who moved to Iraq in the 1960's and returned to the U.S. in 1992. After the 1993 WTC bombing, Yasin fled to Iraq and was given monthly salary and housing by Saddam Hussein's regime.

Other links

21 posted on 04/06/2007 11:34:22 AM PDT by ravingnutter

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/6/13/224948.shtml

Sunday, June 13, 2004 10:47 p.m. EDT

Clinton Indictment Cited Iraq-bin Laden Link

Though Democrats and most reporters insist there’s no operational link between al-Qaida and Iraq, the Clinton Justice Department specifically cited such an alliance when it indicted the 9/11 mastermind six years ago, Weekly Standard reporter Stephen Hayes said Sunday.

“The Clinton administration, in a sealed indictment of Osama bin Laden in the spring of 1998, included very prominently, in the fourth paragraph, a discussion of this agreement,” Hayes told WABC Radio’s Monica Crowley.

“They called it an understanding between Iraq and al-Qaida, whereby al-Qaida agreed not to agitate against the Iraqi regime,” Hayes said. “In exchange the Iraqi regime agreed to supply assistance on weapons development.”

Since the outbreak of the Iraq war, numerous Clinton administration officials have argued there was no link between Iraq and al-Qaida.

But in his book “The Connection,” Hayes details the portion of the Clinton administration’s bin Laden indictment that contradicts those claims, then notes:

“The fact remains that six senior Clinton administration national security officials are on the record defending [the Aug. 20, 1998 strike against Sudan], citing an Iraqi connection.”

22 posted on 04/06/2007 11:34:40 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8...down to 3..GWB, we hardly knew ye...)

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

He said this in his interview with Rush on his show this week. Rush then said that the transcript would be shortly posted on his web site for all the Drive By Media to cut and paste their slant of the interview with.

23 posted on 04/06/2007 11:35:51 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Just at what point did you think I actually gave care about your opinion?)

To: Dr. Frank fan

We're only allowed to care about people who are officially "in Al Qaeda" for some reason.

Not only that, but they ignore the fact that few terrorists are really "in al-Quaeda". Al-Quaeda is not an organized militia or terrorist group like Hezbollah or Hamas. It's a terrorist network that primarily provides support and inspiration to autonomous cells who may or may not identify themselves as being affiliated with al-Quaeda.

What research I've done on the subject leads me to believe that al-Quaeda is more like the terrorist version of venture capitalists. You come to them with a "business plan", so to speak, and, if they like it, they give you money, personnel, and ideological support. What we know of the early stages of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and Mohammed Atef's early planning of 9-11, and their obtainment of bin Laden's approval, fits this model.

The membership of such a network-oriented organization is difficult to define. It is also just the sort of organization that would be very useful for a state to use as a middle man to plot covert attacks with plausible deniability.

24 posted on 04/06/2007 11:35:53 AM PDT by The Pack Knight (Democracy is the tyranny of all over all. Gingrich/Bolton '08)

Here's my list:

In in 1998, an Arab intelligence officer, who knows Saddam personally, predicted in Newsweek: "Very soon you will be witnessing large-scale terrorist activity run by the Iraqis." The Arab official said these terror operations would be run under "false flags" --spook-speak for front groups--including bin Laden's organization.

Then there were the predictions by an Iraqi with ties to Iraqi intelligence, Naeem Abd Mulhalhal, in Qusay's own newspaper several weeks before the attacks that stated bin Laden would “demolish the Pentagon after he destroys the White House and ”bin Laden would strike America “on the arm that is already hurting.” (referencing a second IRAQI sponsored attack on the World Trade Center). Another reference to New York was “[bin Laden] will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra everytime he hears his songs.” (e.g., “New York, New York”) which identified New York, New York as a target. Mulhalhal also stated, “The wings of a dove and the bullet are all but one and the same in the heart of a believer." which references an airplane attack.

The Arabic language daily newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabic also cited the cooperation between Iraq, bin Laden and Al December 1998 editorial, which predicted that “President Saddam Hussein, whose country was subjected to a four day air strike, will look for support in taking revenge on the United States and Britain by cooperating with Saudi oppositionist Osama Bin-Laden, whom the United States considers to be the most wanted person in the world.” This info is in the link provided below. How could these people have had foreknowledge without Iraq being involved?

Source for this info

Warning...slow loading .pdf file. This was from a lawsuit filed against Iraq after 9/11...the court ruled against Iraq.

There was also another lawsuit filed by the family of John O’Neill (a former FBI agent who captured Ramzi Yousef after the 1993 WTC bombings) after he died in the WTC on 9/11. His personal files from his years of traveling around the world investigating al-Qaeda are were used as evidence in the lawsuit. The evidence includes documents unearthed in the headquarters of the Mukhabarat (Iraq's intelligence service) and information gleaned from the interrogation of both al-Qaeda and Iraqi prisoners. (Link below). It also quotes Vincent Cannistraro, the former CIA counter-terrorism chief, who stated in October 2000 that Iraq had been wanting to carry out terrorist attacks, and that the Iraqi military had been in contact with Osama bin Laden.

Click Here

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.

Abu Nidal, September 11 and Saddam The terrorist network may be closer knit than we think.

Weekly Standard: The Mother of All Connections

List of newspaper article in the 90's which mention the world's concern regarding the growing relationship between OBL and Saddam: