This guy Ghul, who we caught in Iraq, was the guy who IDed the courier and made the connection to Abu Faraj al-Libi and that's when they started to hone in on him and eventually led to finding him in Peshawar and tracking him to Abbotabad.
Of course I doubt the US media will ever report this, this was in a UK paper. But one of the big breaks in the case came from a guy we caught in Iraq and ultimately we can now say that the Iraq War definitely helped us against AQ and played a key role in getting Bin Laden.
Good thing Obama wasn't President then to prevent the war from happening. Bin Laden could very well still be at large.
I wonder if anyone will bring this up and ask the WH about it. I wonder if any media types will mention it.
I'm just putting it out here on FR so at least we know about it and at leat freepers can be informed on how the Iraq War did end up playing a role in this.
The killing of OBL literally knocks out every single argument of the far left against the Bush administration. With this new revelation, it shows the value of the Iraq War, Gitmo, the other secret CIA interrogation sites, enhanced interrogation efforts, and the general WOT. And the band leader of that opposition - Barack Hussein Obama is trying to take ALL the credit. Priceless.
Bfl.
WOW
LOL!
BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED!!
This afternoon O’s press sec accused the previous administration of taking it’s eye off OBL and wasting time in Iraq.
paraphrasing
bkmrk
Rice: Iraq sheltered, trained al Qaeda
CNN
September 25, 2002
``President Bush’s national security adviser Wednesday said Saddam Hussein has sheltered al Qaeda terrorists in Baghdad and helped train some in chemical weapons development — information she said has been gleaned from captives in the ongoing war on terrorism.
The comments by Condoleezza Rice were the strongest and most specific to date on the White House’s accusations linking al Qaeda and Iraq.``
http://articles.cnn.com/2002-09-25/us/us.iraq.alqaeda_1_iraq-and-al-qaeda-chemical-weapons-saddam-hussein?_s=PM:US
Thanks for posting. I’m definitely spreading this article around.
Never mind all that! Ghul didn’t help them discover any WMD in Iraq, so the entire war was unjustified and led to the murder of Osama bin Laden. Bush lied! Who died!
From the article:
“Then there was the matter of WikiLeaks. Just weeks before Sunday night’s raid, the whistleblower website had published a tranche of new secret documents.
These made reference to named ‘couriers’ carrying Bin Laden’s message to his followers, and also to Abbottabad as a possible Al Qaeda bolthole.
There was a real risk that Bin Laden would flee once again, thwarting U.S. attempts to capture or kill him.”
I really hope that Julian Assange is captured, tried as an enemy combatant and executed.
For future reference.
There’s been a message sent out by the liberal elites ordering all lib talking heads, media flacks, pols, and general lib nutjobs to deny Bush or Gitmo intel had anything to do with finding and killing OBL. Give the evil, torturer Bush credit for anything?...uh,uh no can do. Obama did it ALL BY HIMSELF!!! In fact, I think Obama thinks he created himself.