Saddam link to Bin Laden

THE GUARDIAN ^ | 2/6/1999 | Julian Borger

[IowaHawk]

Breaking news from 1999: talks between Bin Laden & Saddam, reported by the house organ of the Loon-Left.

[b4its2late]

1999 - During clinton, nobody gave a damn. If slick did his job instead of getting a job, things might have turned out different.....

[arthurus]

who is thought to have offered Bin Laden asylum in Iraq.

Under the current circumstances that would not appear to be a really mouth-watering offer.

[Texas Eagle]

Good work, Iowa.

[Teacher317]

This must be wrong. The liberals have been whining that there IS no connection between Saddam and Osama.

[ewing]

And according to US News Magazine 'Washington Whispers' Clinton had the shot to take OBL out in 1998 with a missile and played phone tag with the situation room.

[Texas Eagle]

This must be wrong. The liberals have been whining that there IS no connection between Saddam and Osama.

Yes, but it depends on what the meaning of "IS" is.

[Texas Eagle]

And Clinton had another opportunity to nab Bin Laden in 1998 when Sudan offered his head on a silver platter, but he was too busy playing grab-@$$ with Monica Lewinsky.

[Yardstick]

*bookmarked*

[dinok]

Great Post...thanks

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[Dr. Frank fan]

Cannot be correct. Saddam is "Secular", therefore he would never work with a "Religious" person like bin Laden, no matter how identical their goals and enemies are.

Everyone knows that. ;-)

[rwfromkansas]

wow.....GOOD work.

[NautiNurse]

Nice catch--thanks!

[Lunatic Fringe]

But hey... there is NO PROOF Iraq was involved in 9/11.

Right? Right?!
(crickets)

[jwalsh07]

BTT

[daviddennis]

Analysts believe that Mr Hijazi offered Mr bin Laden asylum in Iraq, most likely in return for co-operation in launching attacks on US and Saudi targets.

My guess is that bin Laden was happy to cooperate and Iraq threw him a few bucks in exchange for a bit of friendly consultation on target selection.

It's pretty suspicious that bin Laden went after the WTC, since the early 1993 attack was almost certainly Iraqi-influenced. So Iraq chose another go at the WTC, and bin Laden provided troops and motivation.

That hangs together awfully well, in my view.

D

[MHGinTN]

BTTT ... your analysis works to my mind. Salman Pak was a training haven for nearly every terrorist group willing to come to Baghdad. Documents discovered in Afghanistan show the visits of Iraqi 'Mukbars' to train al Qaeda in production and use of bio and chem weapons. But it doesn't matter to the democrats who wouldn't accept proof if it was irrefutable. They're too bitter about being turn out of power and too involved in trying to prevent this administration from succeeding in the war against terrorism to stop and care about America's safety or the real risks facing US.

[daviddennis]

I don't think they're sitting in their offices trying to figure out how to destroy America. I think they're just trying to save their own skins. Unfortunately, that doesn't make the results of their actions much different.

I try not to descend into tinfoil hatting, but there does appear to be a connection between the 1993 attack on the WTC and both Iraq and Bin Laden. It seems weird to me that this is not used as part of the case against Saddam today. I'm sure that within the administration it's well known and a major reason he's being targeted, but it's something I'd dearly love to learn more about.

Finally, I wish I could understand the left position. It appears to be inspired by folks like Noam Chomsky, who can sound pretty impressive to the naive and impressionable. But after a little while, you get to understand that his argument simply takes everything we do as aggression, while ignoring what the opposite side does to provoke it. You don't learn about Palastinian suicide bombers from him; you just learn that Israel, with American support, has killed billions of Palastinians.

Unfortunately, the whole left seems to argue like that. Their more erudite case seems to be that we supported Saddam against Iran, so it's hypocritical for us to go back and clean up the mess now. But that means the mess will never be cleaned up. I just can't take that kind of argument seriously.

D

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Excellent Job!!!