[Zechariah11]

Breaking News FYI

[goldstategop]

I can't wait to hear the liberals say Ayad Allawi is a Bush stooge.

[COEXERJ145]

Not true. See-BS, the Comrade News Network, ABC, NBC, PMSNBC, and the Democrats have all said there is no connection between Saddam and Al-Qaeda. /sarcasm

[goodnesswins]

YOOOHOOOO....

Dimmies.....where ....are....you????

Media.......where ....are....you????

Europe......where.....are....you????

ROPE A DOPES.

[Kaslin]

Anyone who can not see a connection is just blind

[Uncle Miltie]

Quick & Dirty Listing of Connections:

Atta in Baghdad.
Atta meets w/Iraqi Spy in Czech Republic.
Iraqi Mukhabbarat Colonel at the 9/11 planning meeting in Jakarta.

What are the other easy gimmes?

[beebuster2000]

beyond huge. don't wait for the NYT to report it.

[Verginius Rufus]

Will this even be mentioned in the mainstream media? When Tom Hamill at his homecoming in Macon, MS, praised Bush, the news stories left that out; when that Iraqi leader yesterday thanked the US, the networks made no mention of it, according to Brit Hume this evening.

[Peach]

I dare the mainstream media to report this. DARE THEM.

[guitfiddlist]

'Rat media will now counter that there is no proof of any visits unless Iraqi utility bills and voter registration cards in the hijacker's names can be produced.

[hershey]

The liberals can't allow this to stand because their mantra is that nothing Bush has done since 9/11 is sensible. God forbid that we protect ourselves. They can't come out and say what they want to, that we should simply hand over our sovereignty to the UN. My liberal son is visiting from New Zealand and all I've heard is that America is the world's biggest threat to stability...oh, and the Jews and Bush are behind everything. He's giving me hives.

[DeaconRed]

YIPPIE
KI
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V537

[PigRigger]

I've never doubted a relationship existed, to what extent was my only open question.

Things are becoming very clear a little more than a year after the start of the war.

- The UN was on the take; the lifting of sanctions was more probable than the enforcing of them.
- WMD's and banned Conventional weapons (and programs to develop them) did exist.
- Iraq and Al-Queda did work together.

Saddam was a terrorist, Saddam did not comply with the original disarmament resolution, Saddam wished to inflict pain on the US and its citizens.

How can anyone be surprised, all the indications were there prior to the invasion.

[RaceBannon]

Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by Saddam
By Con Coughlin
(Filed: 14/12/2003)


Iraq's coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks against the US, was trained in Baghdad by Abu Nidal, the notorious Palestinian terrorist.



Details of Atta's visit to the Iraqi capital in the summer of 2001, just weeks before he launched the most devastating terrorist attack in US history, are contained in a top secret memo written to Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, the former head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained exclusively by the Telegraph, is dated July 1, 2001 and provides a short resume of a three-day "work programme" Atta had undertaken at Abu Nidal's base in Baghdad.

In the memo, Habbush reports that Atta "displayed extraordinary effort" and demonstrated his ability to lead the team that would be "responsible for attacking the targets that we have agreed to destroy".

The second part of the memo, which is headed "Niger Shipment", contains a report about an unspecified shipment - believed to be uranium - that it says has been transported to Iraq via Libya and Syria.

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.

"We are uncovering evidence all the time of Saddam's involvement with al-Qaeda," he said. "But this is the most compelling piece of evidence that we have found so far. It shows that not only did Saddam have contacts with al-Qaeda, he had contact with those responsible for the September 11 attacks."

Although Atta is believed to have been resident in Florida in the summer of 2001, he is known to have used more than a dozen aliases, and intelligence experts believe he could easily have slipped out of the US to visit Iraq.

Abu Nidal, who was responsible for the failed assassination of the Israeli ambassador to London in 1982, was based in Baghdad for more than two decades.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

BUMP

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