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I am very surprised that no one else in the Intelligence Community picked up on the content of this document that shows Ayam Al Zawahiri visit to Iraq. In fact the Senate Intelligence Committee per the influence of the democrats went all the way to deny that such a visit took place despite that they were reporting about it.
I'm not surprised. They've proved that if anyone in the intelligence community, government or MSM picks up on any of this they'll destroy them using "any means necessary."
That won't stop me from forwarding this to my congresswoman and senators, however, as well as every presstitute I can think of.
Nice find!
Project for New American Century: Allawi on Iraq and al Qaeda
I would like to draw your attention to a May 23, 2005 Agence France-Presse (AFP) article, “Al-Qaeda Number Two Visited Saddam’s Iraq: Former PM.” AFP reported on a recent interview that former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi gave to the Saudi newspaper Al-Hayat. According to Allawi, bin Ladin’s top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, visited Baghdad in September 1999, and al-Zarqawi entered Iraq “probably around the same time,” “began to set up cells,” and also “forged links with Ansar al-Islam.” AFP further reported:
Allawi, a former Baathist dissident who lived in exile at the time, said he had “confirmation” of Zawahiri's visit to Iraq and that the fugitive Egyptian Islamist had entered “under an assumed name” during the ninth Islamic popular congress held in Baghdad in September 1999. “Islamists who led terrorist networks in the world” met on the sidelines of the congress, he said. Allawi said Saddam's regime maintained contacts with militant groups via “one Faruk Hijazi, who was eventually named ambassador to Turkey and then to a (North African) country.” He said Hijazi was “arrested after the fall of Saddam's regime (in April 2003) while trying to infiltrate into Iraqi territory.”
Allawi’s comments, if accurate, build upon the work of the September 11 Commission Report, which stated:
In March 1998, after Bin Ladin’s public fatwa against the United States, two al Qaeda members reportedly went to Iraq to meet with Iraqi intelligence. In July, an Iraqi delegation traveled to Afghanistan to meet first with the Taliban and then with Bin Ladin. Sources reported that one, or perhaps both, of these meetings was apparently arranged through Bin Ladin’s Egyptian deputy, Zawahiri, who had ties of his own to the Iraqis.
Similar meetings between Iraqi officials and Bin Ladin or his aides may have occurred in 1999 during a period of some reported strains with the Taliban (p. 66).
While the report also stated that “to date we have seen no evidence that these or the earlier contacts ever developed into a collaborative operational relationship,” commission chairman Thomas Kean was quick to note that “there was no question in our minds that there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.” Allawi’s remarks, should they hold up to scrutiny, would suggest a more substantial relationship between Iraq and terror groups than is usually portrayed in the major media.
(Additional information on Iraq’s ties to al Qaeda may be found in our report, “Iraq: Setting the Record Straight,” at www.newamericancentury.org/iraq-042005.pdf.)
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Excellent work jveritas. You are invaluable.
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The importance of this smoking gun document should be known to as many people as possible. If at all possible, can you please place this thread in the breaking news section. It is up to you. Thank you very much.
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Good work. Now if only the administration would say something. You can bet the LameStream Media won’t say a friggin’ word about it.
No Iraq-AlQaeda terrorism link here, move on - nothing to see...
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The Democratic Party abandoned these wars when Kerry became their deemed war hero. It is imperative therefore that the democrats maintain their position and force the President to withdraw the troops.
The WOT is a contradiction for which the democrats cannot win. As did Pharaoh removed Moses’ name from all Egypt – so have the democrats determined for George Bush! They will not allow the US to achieve or even consider the WOT a winnable objective until they have completely and deliberately denigrated everything Bush! Hence the WOT must be extinguished and a new WOT properly designed by the democrats set forth against these enemies.
What will come of this evidence when they fall upon the deaf ears of those presently sitting in Washington?
How will this nation survive with such blinding arrogance willingly exposing the security and future of our nation? The democrats have sacrificed the lives our soldiers, innocent Iraqis, and the future or the Iraqi Government. They have knowingly handed Iraq over to Ahmadinejad and Khomeini consequently leaving Israel destined for full scaled war.
Harry Reid has declared the WOT is Lost and Over. He has declared Gen Petraeus a liar and puppet of the White House. What can anyone do to force these documents and other evidences to be reckoned with?
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Good info, but it won’t matter.
The lies have stood too long without resistance.. this will cause nothing more than a yawn.
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