Posted on 04/27/2003 1:44:45 PM PDT by commiefighter
According to Barton Gellman, writing in the March 23rd edition of the Washington Post, “Al Qaeda leaders, long known to covet biological and chemical weapons, have reached at least the threshold of production and may have manufactured some of them, according to a newly obtained cache of documentary evidence and interrogations recently conducted by the U.S. government.” Gellman describes the al Qaeda biochemical weapons program as being more advanced than originally thought, and included the ability to produce their own low-grade anthrax. This information comes from data captured with Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and is chilling news, but not unexpected. Al Qaeda’s original biochemical effort was centered at a site near Kandahar in Afghanistan, but was probably transferred to the allied Ansur al Islam laboratory in Northern Iraq, which has now been destroyed and taken over by the U.S. and the Kurds. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a subsequent briefing that traces of anthrax were found at Kandahar. Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s chief of bioweapons development at the Ansur al Islam compound, was treated in a Baghdad hospital under Saddam’s auspices after escaping Afghanistan ahead of U.S. forces. If al Qaeda was behind the attack on congress and news outlets in September 2001, this information indicates that the sophisticated form of anthrax used in the attack was produced by a source outside al Qaeda. Authorities believe that these anthrax spores could have only been produced by the U.S., Russia, or Iraq. The U.S. has no offensive bioweapons effort. Russia is a possible source, but most likely, the powdered anthrax came from Iraq, which is also believed to have produced a similar agent known as “dusty mustard” which is designed to get inside chemical protective gear. On April 7th, 2001, Mohammed Atta, the leader of the 9/11/01 hijackers flew from the US to Prague, Czech Republic, where he met with Iraqi diplomat Ahmed Khalil al-Ani, according to Czech intelligence. Was powdered anthrax from Iraq delivered to Atta at this meeting, and was it passed to an al Qaeda operative in Jersey City upon Atta’s return to the U.S., for subsequent mailing to members of congress and the news media?
The London Telegraph Newspaper has obtained documents from Iraqi Intelligence Headquarters that they claim confirm an Iraqi-al Qaeda connection. In a story filed on April 27th, 2003 the Telegraph reports that a previously disclosed meeting between an Osama bin Laden (OBL) representative and Iraqi intelligence took place in Baghdad during March 1998. An invitation was then extended for OBL to visit Baghdad. We also now know that international terrorist recruits were undergoing training at Samarra and Salman Pak south of Baghdad, where they were assembled into guerrilla units that attacked US troops. This training may have been conducted for al Qaeda since the Afghanistan schools were put out of business. In a possibly corresponding report, John Daniszewski of the Los Angeles Times, writes in April 2003, that other documents liberated from Iraqi intelligence claim 66 successful assassinations between 1998 and 2000 against Saddam’s enemies. The documents contained a recommendation that disguised “poisonous gas” be obtained for future operations. Daniszewski concludes that the documents “appear to corroborate the long-standing accusation that Saddam sanctioned assassination of his opponents abroad.” Targets included George Bush the elder during a visit to Kuwait in 1993. Other documents have all ready shown that one politician, a member of the British Parliament, was on the take for up to a million dollars a year for his support of the Iraqi regime, to include his vote against military action. Have any US politicians or anti-war organizations received blood money supposedly intended for Iraqi food and medicine? Regardless, the circle is getting smaller and Iraqi efforts in support of international terror are becoming clearer. These operations may have included TWA 800 and the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing, as well as the anthrax attack following 9/11.
commiefighter.
Especially Barbra Streisand
Who will be brave enough to tell Barbra the truth about a 9/11-Iraq connection?Barbra's Thoughts, Posted on March 26, 2003
"The first casualty when war comes, is truth." Senator Hiram Johnson 1917Bush and his Administration appear to operate under two related principles: (1) regardless of fact, if we say it enough times, the American people will believe us and (2) if we say something, you just have to trust us that it’s true, forget proof and logic.
Unfortunately, with regard to the first principle he is right. He found this to be the case with his domestic policy and it seems to be true in foreign affairs as well.
Take his repeated assertion of a connection between Saddam Hussein and September 11. Despite the fact that he and others have yet to offer any proof, a recent poll of Americans, shows that about half believe there is a connection between Saddam and 9-11. Why wait for an accurate intelligence report?
All Bush had to do was repeat Saddam Hussein and 9-11 in the same sentence over and over again – and then wait while the media reported his statements without analysis, and millions of Americans accepted it without question.
Who cares about the facts and truth?
We should.
I'm just at a loss for words after reading this post. I can't beleive that a peaceful organisation like Al Qaeda would have a use for bio weapons. /sarcasm
...although why would they have anthraxed Daschle....one of their best US supporters?
Sarandon plans to act up before State of the Union
WASHINGTON - Just before President Bush delivers his State of the Union address tonight, activist actress Susan Sarandon plans to upstage him."Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, 'What did Iraq do to us?'" the 56-year-old New Yorker asks in a 30-second television spot that will air just before the 9 p.m. speech.
Edward Peck, a former ambassador to Iraq, tells her in the bit: "The answer is nothing. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, nothing to do with Al Qaeda. ... Invading Iraq will increase terrorism, not reduce it."
The White House has signaled it may soon lay out evidence proving him wrong.
The spot is being paid for by an anti-war group called True Majority, run by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's ice cream fame. It urges Bush to seek a peaceful resolution and to allow the inspections to continue.
Remember in 1998 that Dasshole was beating the war drums for Klintoon to go after Sadaam. Thats why. (wag the dog wagg the dog)
More likely, Saddam's anthrax via al qaeda was sent to Daschle's office simply because he was one of the governments leaders. No doubts it was terrorism,imho.
My thoughts exactly. But I assure him he's still on the American political radar screen....and the interceptors have launched! Elections are'nt that far away!
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