Saddam may be target Americans are looking for

London Telegraph ^ | 9/17/01 | R James Woolsey, former director of the CIA

[Peach]

Bomb him just because.

[Plutarch]

Clinton overlooked Saddam's involvement in order to avoid making a difficult decision? Preposterous!

[Paraclete]

America's 8 year dalliance with WJC is tragically coming home to roost.

Is it just me or does Hillary seem extremely subdued and is staying in the background? When she speaks, I am struck at the shallowness with which she comes across. (Even moreso than the past)

My gut feeling and intuition is there's something BIG that could destroy the Clintons.

[vvpete]

Osama bin Laden is just another multimillionaire playboy wasting his daddy's money. I suspect that he was the kind of kid who couldn't be trusted around the farm animals or household pets, and doesn't know his right hand from his left...the kind of kid who not only had to leave home, but leave the country. Most of these do themselves in in incidents with cars or guns when they're still young. I do have a point here, which is that he could very well be a figurehead or straw man with someone a lot smarter behind him and using his money, and I agree that Saddam Hussein would certainly be a key suspect.

[thinden]

But late last year, AEI Press published Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America, a careful book about the bombing by the AEI scholar Laurie Mylroie.

The book's startling thesis is that the original theory of the attack, advanced by James Fox (the FBI's chief investigator into the 1993 bombing until his replacement in 1994) was correct: that Yousef was not Abdul Basit but rather an Iraqi agent who had assumed the latter's identity when police files in Kuwait (where the real Abdul Basit lived in 1990) were doctored by Iraqi intelligence during the occupation of Kuwait.

wary inkterestink.

[Spin]

Something Big

Well consider this, just last year the Clintons granted clemency to the FALN terrorists who killed police officers and set off fire bombs on American streets.

It disgusted me to see Hillary standing next those firemen and officers this morning.

www.DeclarationofWar.org

[JeanLM]

I caught Woolsey twice and another security guy who agreed with him, over the weekend. I hope our new intelligence people are being careful and checking all avenues. To me Bin Laden is guilty but a fall guy. This operation was planned by another agency. That's who we want to bomb, and I believe it is Saddam. Even if we don't have proof positive that would stand up in court, I'd take him out while we have a second chance.

Anyone wonder how we go from knowing nothing to knowing everything in less than a week? The trails left are distractions and part of the plan. I think the agent in charge of the WTC operation was like Yousef, an Iraqui agent. I'd bet he was here right up to the end, and left before things got shut down. If they check international fight manifests, which I hope they have already done, for flights coming in recently and leaving before the attacks to places like London, Amsterdam, Rome, I'll bet they will find a name that isn't real, but is the guy.

[OKCSubmariner]

BUMP

[homeschool mama]

**Is it just me or does Hillary seem extremely subdued and is staying in the background? When she speaks, I am struck at the shallowness with which she comes across. (Even moreso than the past) **

#97 has always been shallow... She has ice water running through her veins. What you see and hear is what you get. She's vile.

[OKCSubmariner]

BUMP

[twigs]

I agree. I think Woolsey is the most credible expert who has spoken since last Tuesday. I wish he were back at the CIA. He says that while it's obvious Bin Laden is guilty, he is calling too much attention to himself and we should not be fooled by this. I personally have thought that Sadsdam Hussein has a hand in this and it's personal. W's dad defeated him and now he's back for junior. I know this has been in the planning for longer than X43 has been in office, but I think his being there is additional motive for Hussein to carry out his evil intentions.

[Magician]

The Mossad is also claiming that Iraq, as well as Osama bin Ladin, is involved in the WTC/Pentagon attack.

It is wise to remember that there were two conferences earlier this year, the first in Beirut and the second in Tehran, that brought together all of the extreme and fundementalist anti-Western Muslim nations and terrorist organizations. It must be assumed that these people are able to cooperate with each other to pull off major attacks.

[LSJohn]

Clinton overlooked Saddam's involvement in order to avoid making a difficult decision? Preposterous!

Saddam's involvement was overlooked, IMO, but not by Clinton. The national security/foreign policy apparatus does not want to take Saddam out now for the same reason GHWB didn't want to in 1991 -- there is no potential leader on the horizon in Iraq likely to succeed him who is thought to have the wherewithall to maintain the semblance of strength and stability in Iraq sufficient to continue an effective counterbalance to Iran.

What does it mean that Woolsey is floating Saddam's name? Is he now out of the loop so free to say what he really thinks, or an agent floating this balloon for a reason we can't imagine?

[LSJohn]

fyi -- also please see #14

[tallhappy]

Bomb him just because.

No.

Initial surrender on his and his regimes part or ground invasion, end of his regime and occupation.

This is war. For our safety and victory he must be removed.

Just like the German Nazis and Japanese in WWII.

[CJ Wolf]

did we ever stop?

[kahoutek]

Osama Yo Mama + Saddim Whose Sane? + Election of Dubya + Desert Storm + Kuwait's Existence = WTC & Pentagon attacks.

The more I think about it, the more sense this makes....