Colin Powell's 2003 UN Speech was all true

Colin Powell's 2003 UN speech was based on accurate intelligence. I have done an exhaustive review of the Pentagon report on Saddam and found new evidence. I recently completed my book The Link: The Secret Relationship between Saddam and al Qaida. My book won't be published until 2009. In order to get the truth out before the election, I've written an article.

Welcome to Free Republic.

Did you come here just to pimp your book?

I want to get the truth out before the election. I just finished my book a few weeks ago and it won’t come out until next year.

Sort of :). Since I’m an unknown I wanted you to know that I have written a book and have done extensive research on this subject. Since my book hasn’t been published yet, I couldn’t get my article published. I want to get the truth out before the election.

You might also look at Zawahiri’s relationship to Saddam.

My understanding is that the Egyptian jihadists were financed by Saddam, meaning that Zawahiri would have been in effect one of Saddam’s agents.

When we speak of Bin Ladin and Zawahiri’s jihadists forming common cause in Sudan, what we are seeing is in effect Bin Ladin being recruited by Saddam. When he surrounds himself with Zawahiri’s jihadists, we have the evidence hiding in plain sight; Saddam’s men are Bin Ladin’s inner circle. We just didn’t define them as such, and as a result we don’t see it.

The 911 attack was Saddam’s revenge. It was his second attempt on the World Trade Center. The first attempt, you’ll remember, was led by two Iraqi agents. The fact that Bin Ladin may have had his own agenda (the caliphate) doesn’t change the fact that he is connected at the hip with Saddam’s men.

The idea that Bin Ladin offered to fight against Saddam is silliness. He “offered” to take command of the Saudi military. Fat chance.

I am sorry your book is completed.

It could use some more research.

One area left to flesh out in research is HOW Saddam and Iraqi intelligence operated to (a) establish and maintain an off-the-books network to and from different terrorist groups and (b) do so without Iraqi officials and terrorist leaders coordinating activities in a formal, central, joint command structure; in fact, without ANY high level Iraqi-terrorist meetings.

The operational links, before 2003, will be found predominately in the southwest provinces of Iraq, bordering both Jordan and Saudi Arabia. There one will find very conservative, Sunni fundamentalist tribal leaders as well as centuries old mercantile clans with business operations in Jordon, Saudi Arabia in addition to Iraq.

Among these people the Iraqi intelligence found more-than-willing intermediaries who (1)helped provide cover for Iraqi intelligence activities across the Middle East, (2) helped provide third-party financial conduits to terrorist groups, including many in the “Palestinian territories”, (3) used these facilities as a two-way network of information to and intelligence from the terrorists and their leaders.

This is where Zaraqawi found ready-made fertile ground for the largest Al Queda operations in Iraq after 2003; and that area was no accident. It had many pre-existing local financial fund-raising links to Al Queda, prior to 2003.

A second area of research needed on HOW Iraqi intelligence worked with terrorists must involve Saddam's use of all the Kuwaiti official government records that he stole from Kuwait before he was booted from there.

The case that stands out, I will continue with here below, but the point is that it can only be one example of what must have been hundreds if not thousands.

That case concerns a man who arrived in Malaysia a few months before the very last meeting of the principal planners of the 9/11 attacks; a meeting that took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The man arrived on a Kuwaiti passport, and immediately received a job, as a "driver", with an Iraqi "civilian" living and working in Malaysia. Maybe western intelligence did not believe that Iraqi was a "civilian" but, for whatever reason, they thought to check out his knew "Kuwaiti" employee. It turned out that the only thing that matched on his Kuwati passport with a previously archived western copy of that passport was the name. The height, weight and picture were not the same. The man was then put under surveillance. Within a few weeks he went to the Kuala Lumpur airport, picked up a man, drove that man to a meeting (we found out later it was the last 9/11 planning meeting) and went in to the meeting place with him. After the meeting the "driver" took the man back to the airport. A few days later the "driver" left Malaysia, on his "Kuwaiti" passport to one of the Gulf States. But, he, under the identity of that passport, was not recorded as arriving at the destination he was ticketed for, or anywhere else. He literally fell off the radar screen after that. Again, no "direct" link to Saddam; no operational meeting between Saddam officials and terrorist leaders; no certifiable, definitive "smoking gun". Because, Saddam had long used "unofficial" networks for his cooperation with terrorists.

Something that has gone down the memory hole:

During the invasion in 2003, troops (and embed reporters) found a chemical plant of a special nature; it was surrounded by guard towers, the plant manager was an army general, and the plant was secured by army troops. The plant was not on any of the weapons inspectors’ maps. They didn’t know about it.

The product of the plant was described as “nerve agent”.

A couple of days later, the news was updated to reveal that, no, it was just agricultural pesticide.

At least three other times, troops and embeds found stockpiles of supposed “nerve agent” at army ammo dumps; in one case the reporters on the scene got sick from exposure. And in each case after a couple of days it was reported that, no, its agricultural pesticide after all.

The difference between nerve agent and pesticide is how you use it. Spread it on Iranian troops, its nerve agent. Spread it on your crops, its pesticide. Iraqi troops used to call nerve agent “bug poison” because, obviously, it is.

So part of the reason we didn’t find any WMD is that we re-defined it out of existence.

I actually have researched the Zawahiri link. I cover it extensively in the book. I couldn’t give everything away, so you will buy the book. I also have a revelation regarding the 1993 WTC attack again I need to keep some things for when the book is published. Thanks for all the feedback. I have completed the book, but it is still in edit mode while my agent is looking for a publisher.

Thanks,

veerite

Well, then, mission accomplished. I want to read it. Ping me when the time comes.

cheers

Yes. The beginning of Saddam’s biological and chemical weapons program was headed by his agricultural department. The leader went to France which shared intell with Iraq. I talk about this in my book how pesticides and chemical weapons are much the same. Saddam knew that was a good front.

My book goes into great detail of the Zawahiri - Saddam Hussein link and the Rahman, blind cleric - Saddam link. Yes the EIJ and IG were financed, trained, and carrying out operations with Saddam’s Fedayeen army also known as the Popular Army, basically his private militia. This is all detailed in the memos and transcripts and then I put them into a historical context. Zawahiri flew into Baghdad on a meat cargo plane two weeks after the 1993 WTC bombing. Coincidence? I think not! I totally agree with your analysis. I found a memo where Saddam admits to giving the order for the 1993 WTC attack. I build on Stephen Hayes info that an IIS member met with a 9/11 hijacker in Malaysia. I found a memo discussing this same IIS agent going to Malaysia. Zawahiri actually made a bayat to Usama bin Laden in 1989 at the second al Qaida formation meeting. In 1989 Rahman was considered the spiritual leader of al Qaida. Al Qaida is actually quite complex with different departments such as a communications group, an identification group (passports, etc altered), religious group, etc. I include the trial transcripts detailing this in the appendix of my book. I have included over 100 pages of Iraqi memos, transcripts, and trial transcripts in the Appendix of The Link.

Please let me know when you are published; I will order a copy.

You’re doing the work someone ought to have done long ago; thank goodness someone has finally done it.

And obviously you should use FR to let people know about the book and to invite commentary.