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

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."

I completely apologize. I read your comment, even re-read it a couple times.. and thought you were saying that while you, personally, were not trying to shut this video down, there were others - other people- who were.

Reading it again, I see you meant other videos that should be shut down.

I am sorry for misunderstanding what you wrote. I was not clear on why you posted the YouTube smackdown info and thought you were directing that toward this video.

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