Terrorist Behind September 11 Strike was Trained by Saddam

The Telegraph ^ | December 14, 2003 | Con Coughlin

[jwalsh07]

Al-Qaeda's leadership "viewed the Iraqis, particularly the military and security services, as corrupt, irreligious and hypocritical in that they succumb to Western vices while concurrently remaining at war with the US," the report says, summarizing Zubaydah's statements.

This statement is till as false as it was when you posted it on its own thread.

Ansar al Islam is Al Qaeda. Ansar al Islam has operated in Iraq for quite soem time now ith Husseins knowledge, approval and aid.

That the document spoken about here on this thread is just a little too pat with the mention of Niger and Uraninum does not change the fact that SH was knee deep in terrorism. The secular, jihdaist twin shall never meet terrorist thing is claptrap.

[Qwinn]

Ah. Alright, fine, make that distinction if you like, but personally I think you're silly if you think something like this could've gone on in Iraq without Saddam's knowledge, approval and funding.

Qwinn

[armymarinemom]

How much you wanna bet that the stock came DIRECTLY from Baghdad?

Wouldn't surprise me a bit. The strain that Iraq had is the same as the US but the protein coat is nothing like we had over here.

[Ciexyz]

We always knew but we didn't have the proof.

[txhurl]

Tinfoil on - that security guard who shot himself a couple weeks ago at the UN. Then the UN says oh YES most definitely Saddam had WMD going on. These background strange happenings are usually foreshadowing something.

I just don't know if the dot-connection is going to come out blazing the week of the primaries or the last of Oct '04.

[mrobison]

It's all Bush's fault.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is a biggie!

[DouglasKC]

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone except those that would believe George Bush would lie about his reason for going to war against Iraq.

Bump...

[Imperialist]

"trained by Iraqi Intelligence"

Who was the Boss? Saddam.

[nuffsenuff]

Good point.

[Tennessean4Bush]

Just got here. Is this really true? Anyone else reporting this right now. If this holds up, this is huge for both Bush and Blair.

[nuffsenuff]

I've only seen it on here... So really the Telegraph and now WorldnetDaily.

No idea if its true... good points on both sides on this thread though.

[Qwinn]

Blogsforbush has posted it too.

http://www.blogsforbush.com

Qwinn

[elhombrelibre]

It's on www.lucianne.com too.

[PoisedWoman]

Although Iraqi officials refused to disclose how and where they had obtained the document, Dr Ayad Allawi, a member of Iraq's ruling seven-man Presidential Committee, said the document was genuine.

Didn't Bush & Co state that US forces have "miles" of documents to sift through in Iraq? Could be this letter was found in that trove.

[eeriegeno]

Names of people or groups mentioned on this thread:

al-Qaeda

Mohammed Atta

Saddam Hussein

Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti

Abu Nidal

Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani

Abu Ammer

Bashir al-Asad

Taliban

Mokhtar Belmokhtar

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf

Mukhabarat

Farouk Hijazi

Sabri al-Banna

Yusuf Galan

Abu Dahdah

Khalid Sheikh Muhammed

Al-Haznawi

Aziz

Abu Zubaydah

DAN RATHER

Anyone else see a pattern here?

I vote for creation of the Arabian Ocean.....

[deport]

What do you think?

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I think I'll wait and look for more info to emerge....

[txhurl]

Dan Rather's great-uncle was the first guy busted in Houston in 1908 for drug-smuggling under the Harrison act. Really, look it up.

[Tribune7]

ping

[Peach]

I just read that article and was coming here to post the same; coincidence?