Iraq and al Qaeda

Wall Street Journal ^ | Monday, September 22, 2003

[presidio9]

The Bush Administration was cautious, arguably too cautious, when making its case for the liberation of Iraq. Exhibit A is what it said about the links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. Investigators, interrogators and even journalists are turning up evidence of a stronger relationship than the limited ties originally sketched by President Bush and Colin Powell.

[God luvs America]

Let's see how widely reported in the press this story is or what fat-drunk ted kennedy has to say....and again, like all the reports on 9/11 from US officials and/or captured terrorists, all this took place on Clinton's watch!!

[Peach]

Yet another great article about links between Iraq and AQ, from the Wall Street Journal.

[Rocky Mountain High]

Why isn't the Bush administration advertising this information more?

[Dog]

According to Insight magazine, the CIA's Paul Pillar, National Intelligence Officer for the Near East, used a lecture at Johns Hopkins University earlier this year to criticize the President's war on terror. He said that there was no evidence of Iraqi terror sponsorship since 1993, and no evidence of its involvement in the World Trade Center bombing that year. Curiously, we hear the agency has so far declined to share the file found in Iraq on Yasin (the 1993 New York bombing suspect) with other branches of the government.

Who in the CIA is withholding info of a Iraq-Al Qaeda link....?

[Peach]

Definitely a Clinton hold-out.

[wayoverontheright]

The Clinton administration did everything it could to keep terror events from being linked to a nation state, because then there would have to be a military response, and that can they would rather kick into the future, for some other sucker to deal with.

They succeeded, and we are the suckers. The then somewhat politicized, and now only slightly less politicized CIA and FBI would also have to answer to this blunder, and they won't go down without a fight.

[vin-one]

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[lwd]

About a month after September 11, reports surfaced that lead hijacker Mohammed Atta had met in Prague with an Iraqi embassy official and intelligence agent named Ahmed al-Ani link

[Milligan]

I think GW likes to play poker.

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt