Cashill: Do paired dates prove Iraq-al-Qaida connection? (FReeper alert)

World Net Daily ^ | 8-21-08 | Jack Cashill

[cgk]

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Do paired dates prove Iraq-al-Qaida connection?

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Posted: August 21, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008 

In late April 2003, after the fall of Baghdad, CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer replayed an earlier conversation he had had with the Iraqi foreign minister, the wily Tariq Aziz.

One overlooked part of this conversation caught the very sharp eye of aspiring filmmaker Chris Kusnell.

When Blitzer asked Aziz about the fate of missing U.S. Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher, Aziz answered that Speicher was killed in a crash on night one of the Gulf War.

As proof, Aziz volunteered that Speicher was not among the POWs released "immediately after the end of the war on April 19, 1991."

"I stopped right there," Kusnell tells me, "and thought, 'What the f--- is he talking about? The war ended February 26.'"

This set Kusnell to wondering: "Why would Saddam Hussein's mouthpiece go on American television, on the worldwide face of Western cable news, and state that April 19 was the day the war ended?"

It slowly dawned on Kusnell that April 19, 1995, was the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. "To me it sounded like a taunt," says Kusnell, "like Saddam was slyly taking credit for something he'd never been able to take credit for."Kusnell started looking for other significant dates, and the result is an eye-popping video called "Genesis of Terror: Saddam, Osama and the War on America."

[cgk]

Excellent Job

haha, not ME, wptg!! But I will tell him you said so.... Done!

[wagglebee]

Wonderful job WPtG!

Just think, if you were a leftist you would probably be up for the Nobel Peace Prize!

[cgk]

PING!

The video linked in the article:

Genesis of Terror: Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and the War on America

And.. we also have access to the full-length version of the video!!
Genesis of Terror: Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and the War on America

Mega props to FReeper WhistlingPasttheGraveyard for sharing both videos. EXCELLENT WORK!!!

[tpanther]

and he finally got called on it because he never did show a soul he had turned over a new leaf and had turned away from starting wars and invading neighbors and killing civilians .

[Islander7]

Thanks for the link. Very illuminating.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Please add me to this ping list- TBT

[Rocketwolf68]

add me please, thanks.

[happygrl]

Ping me.

I remember the work done on FR by OKSubmariner, who has passed on, I believe.

I wish that someone had those archives.

[nw_arizona_granny]

“Saddam al Qaeda” ping list.........

Yes, please include me on the ping list.

[nw_arizona_granny]

There many links to ‘the rest of the story” on this thread.

[There's millions of'em]

Please add to ping list

[Harvey105]

Nope. Can’t be. Bush administration sez there’s no Middle Eastern connection at OKC.

And he said it despite all the evidence to the contrary.

[cgk]

PING

[cgk]

I couldn't find this ever being posted on FR.. and this is just the non-subsriber extract. Wish we had access to the full article. From the Jane's link next to your video, it's a great read & should be posted here.

Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view

19 September 2001

Israel’s military intelligence service, Aman, suspects that Iraq is the state that sponsored the suicide attacks on the New York Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington. Directing the mission, Aman officers believe, were two of the world’s foremost terrorist masterminds: the Lebanese Imad Mughniyeh, head of the special overseas operations for Hizbullah, and the Egyptian Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri, senior member of Al-Qaeda and possible successor of the ailing Osama Bin Laden.

The two men have not been seen for some time. Mughniyeh is probably the world’s most wanted outlaw. Unconfirmed reports in Beirut say he has undergone plastic surgery and is unrecognisable. Zawahiri is thought to be based in Egypt. He could be Bin Laden’s chief representative outside Afghanistan.

The Iraqis, who for several years paid smaller groups to do their dirty work, were quick to discover the advantages of Al-Qaeda. The Israeli sources claim that for the past two years Iraqi intelligence officers were shuttling between Baghdad and Afghanistan, meeting with Ayman Al Zawahiri. According to the sources, one of the Iraqi intelligence officers, Salah Suleiman, was captured last October by the Pakistanis near the border with Afghanistan. The Iraqis are also reported to have established strong ties with Imad Mughniyeh.

"We’ve only got scraps of information, not the full picture," admits one intelligence source, "but it was good enough for us to send a warning six weeks ago to our allies that an unprecedented massive terror attack was expected. One of our indications suggested that Imad Mughniyeh met with some of his dormant agents on secret trips to Germany. We believe that the operational brains behind the New-York attack were Mughniyeh and Zawahiri, who were probably financed and got some logistical support from the Iraqi Intelligence Service (SSO)."

Mughniyeh was the only one believed to have tried it before. On April 12th 1997, he was reported to be only two hours away from achieving the highest goal of any terrorist organisation (until last week): blowing up an Israeli El-Al airliner above Tel Aviv. A man carrying a forged British passport with the name Andrew Jonathan Neumann was in a Jerusalem hotel preparing a bomb he was supposed to take on board an El-Al flight leaving Israel, when it accidentally went off. Andrew Jonathan Neumann was very badly injured but strong enough to reveal later to the Israelis that he was not British but Lebanese, and that his operation was supposed to be a special "gift" to Israel from Imad Mughniyeh.

‘A psychopath’

"Bin Laden is a schoolboy in comparison with Mughniyeh," says an Israeli who knows Mughniyeh . "The guy is a genius, someone who refined the art of terrorism to its utmost level. We studied him and reached the conclusion that he is a clinical psychopath motivated by uncontrollable psychological reasons, which we have given up trying to understand. The killing of his two brothers by the Americans only inflamed his strong motivation."

Experts on Iraq and Saddam Hussein also believe that Iraq was the state behind the two terror masterminds. "In recent months, there was a change, and Iraq decided to get into the terror business. On July 7th, they tried for the first time to send a suicide bomber, trained in Baghdad, to blow up Tel Aviv airport (Foreign Report No. 2651)."

Our sources believe that it will be very difficult to get to the bottom of this unprecedented terror operation. However, they believe the chief of the Iraqi SSO is Qusai Hussein, the dictator’s son, and his organisation is the most likely to have been involved.

Mughniyeh, 48, is a "sick man", says an intelligence officer who was in charge of his file. He is considered by Western intelligence agencies as the most dangerous active terrorist today. He is wanted by several governments and the Americans have put a $2m reward on his head.

[Detailed list of Mughniyeh operations removed for Non-Subscriber Extract]

It was the assassination of one man in March 1984 that is said to have made Mughniyeh the CIA’s most wanted terrorist. Mughniyeh allegedly kidnapped the head of the CIA station in Beirut, William Buckley. The kidnapping triggered what later became known as ‘Irangate’, when the Americans tried to exchange Buckley (and others) with arms for Iran. However, the attempt ended in a fiasco. By one unconfirmed account, Mughniyeh tortured and killed Buckley with his own hands.

A year later, in a combined CIA/Mossad operation, a powerful car bomb went off at the entrance to the house of Hizbullah’s spiritual leader, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah. Seventy-five people were killed. One of them was his brother. Hunted by the CIA and the Mossad, Mughniyeh hid in Iran.

In February 1992, Israeli helicopter gunships attacked the convoy of the then head of Hizbullah, Sheikh Abas Musawi, in South Lebanon. Musawi, his wife and children were killed and the revenge attack followed a month later. According to press reports, Mughniyeh was called back into action and, in a well-planned and devastating attack, his people blew up the Israeli embassy in Argentina. The building was demolished and 92 were killed. Only last year, after a long investigation, did Argentina issue a warrant for Mughniyeh’s arrest.

The reprisal for the attack in Argentina came in December 1994, when a car bomb went off in a southern Shi’ite suburb of Beirut. Four people were killed. One of them was called Mughniyeh, but to the deep disappointment of those Israelis who planted the bomb it was the wrong one. Mughniyeh’s life was saved, but his other brother Fuad was killed. Mughniyeh waited for his opportunity for revenge.

Our Israeli sources claim to see Mughniyeh’s signature on the wreckage in New York and Washington. How to counter this kind of terrorism? "To fight these bastards you don’t need a military attack," said an experienced Israeli commando officer. "You only need to adopt Israel’s assassination policy."

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Interesting...

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[cgk]

Sorry, I’m not up to date on the YouTube smackdown and what it’s used for... are you trying to shut this video down?

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

It’s for removing jihadist videos, apparently.

What that has to do with this, I haven’t the faintest idea.

[cgk]

Yes, I figured it out, I think. I found the link to StarCMC's recent thread..Smacking Down YouTube Terrorists Thread #5 - Please help (Update in #199 & #200)... Star & FReepers are doing some amazing work getting the jihadi recruiting videos off YouTube.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Sorry, I’m not up to date on the YouTube smackdown and what it’s used for...

Click on the link.

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...are you trying to shut this video down?

Nope, but there are many others that should be.