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You're posting great graphics!
Posted on 03/15/2008 6:18:02 AM PDT by ikez78
This ought to be big news. Throughout the early and mid-1990s, Saddam Hussein actively supported an influential terrorist group headed by the man who is now al Qaeda's second-in-command, according to an exhaustive study issued last week by the Pentagon. "Saddam supported groups that either associated directly with al Qaeda (such as the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, led at one time by bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri) or that generally shared al Qaeda's stated goals and objectives." According to the Pentagon study, Egyptian Islamic Jihad was one of many jihadist groups that Iraq's former dictator funded, trained, equipped, and armed.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
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This story, and the pre-release leaker’s attempt at a pre-emptive cover up, are both HUGE stories. We MUST hammer this because the MSM has been caught red-handed and they desperately want to “move on.”
And we know we will get no help from the Bush administration or the Pentagon.
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Salmon Pak had a 707 used for hijack practice, I recall. Salmon Pak was well known to the media and public but it seems that most do not care.
It was obvious that Iraq was crawling with terrorists during the invasion. The Fadiyan were the only real fighters. I am not sure if SH had operational control or not. SH was an opportunist using terrorists when useful. SH hated the US and could not be trusted.
Some president would have needed to deal with SH. The sooner the better as SH was anxious to begin selling more oil and rebuild the military. SH was anxious to spend money on weapons of mass destruction. Bush learned the lesson that the Germans taught to the French and British in the 1930s. Crush your enemy while it is possible. Your enemy will not stop trying to find and exploit your weakness.
The thirst for power has turned into the left into the enemy. If Al Gore was president, the rats would sing a very different tune. Their tune was very different during Clinton’s disasterous military usage.
The left, if they acknowledge any pre-Operation Enduring Freedom AQ in Iraq at all, will say that most of the AQ were in the north which was not securely under SH’s control. What they don’t say (or perhaps realize) is that AQ in the north was fighting Kurds on behalf of SH.
Now BHO and his ilk say that our “invasion” is responsible for the presence of AQ in Iraq as if that was a bad thing! We attracted AQ and other terrorists to Iraq to die and leave their cell phones and laptops for our intel to examine. Rummy will be seen by future historians to have been a military genius, imho.
Really appreciate that link to the Pentagon report. Thanks
Great stuff!
The screaming liberal monkeys will keep denying the truth.
You read the report and the facts are there.
But I’m a little troubled with Abul Rahman Yasin. Cheney said Saddam’s Regime was involved with the WTC93 Bombing because Yasin fled to Iraq. ABC reporter said he was freely living in Iraq with his father but later he was arrested by the Regime.
According to the new report; Saddam did not trust Yasin for some reason. Saddam believed the bombing was done by the Americans or the Zionist to place the blame on Saddam. He never handed over Yasin to the Americans because that would make him look bad in the Arab World for being a wuss.
But Saddam had another reason to keep Yasin under “Lock and Key”. Saddam used Yasin as barter bait. He wanted the US to Lift the Sanctions in exchange of Yasin. US refused to lift the Sanctions. So is Cheney correct implicating Saddam to WTC93 bombing? Saddam did have a history dealing with terrorist organizations.
People can be arrested and put into prison....some are placed in house arrest which is not doing really hard time at all and could freely roam the neighborhood as long you let the authorties know.
Yasin is still a wanted man by the FBI. And he not in Iraq when we toppled Saddam in 2003.
Where is Abdul Rahman Yasin?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Yasin
In slightly related news, Chemical Ali is supposed do the Big Swing here soon...
Eli Lake of the NY Sun, who actually believes in Saddam’s terrorist and al Qaeda links, wrote that Yasin was actually a prisoner of the regime according to the report. I have not read that far yet but if Lake wrote it it’s a good guess that part may be true.
Very much appreciate that link. Now I’ve got it on my documents list and will read through it. Wouldn’t you love to read the ‘un-redacted’ version?
In the new report it mentions Saddam’s Martyrs/Saboteurs using only Duracell batteries when denotating their bombs.
Should Duracell market that fact in their commericals?
Who makes Duracell batteries?... Aren’t Eveready made by the French?
Thanks for the pdf link.
>>While the WH continuously supports its actions, the word is not getting through.
While the enemedia has been a huge adversary, I’ve got to hang that on Bush’s head. He has not well-used the bully pulpit.
yeap no problem.. I have been reading it very interesting how they say. “no smoking gun” and then go on to show indirect links.
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