Posted on 05/23/2005 7:15:19 PM PDT by jmc1969
Baghdad, 23 May - The number two of the al-Qaeda network, Ayman al-Zawahiri, visited Iraq under a false name in September 1999 to take part in the ninth Popular Islamic Congress, former Iraqi premier Iyad Allawi has revealed to pan-Arab daily al-Hayat. In an interview, Allawi made public information discovered by the Iraqi secret service in the archives of the Saddam Hussein regime, which sheds light on the relationship between Saddam Hussein and the Islamic terrorist network. He also said that both al-Zawahiri and Jordanian militant al-Zarqawi probably entered Iraq in the same period.
"Al-Zawahiri was summoned by Izza Ibrahim Al-Douri then deputy head of the council of the leadership of the revolution - to take part in the congress, along with some 150 other Islamic figures from 50 Muslim countries," Allawi said.
According to Allawi, important information has been gathered regarding the presence of another key terrorist figure operating in Iraq - the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Allawi's remarks come after statements to al-Hayat by King Abdallah II of Jordan over Saddam's refusal to hand over al-Zarqawi to the authorities in Amman.
On this question Allawi said: ''The words of the Jordanian King are correct and important. We have proof of al-Zawahiri's visit to Iraq, but we do not have the precise date or information on al-Zarqawi's entry
In Allawi's view, Saddam's government "sponsored" the birth of al-Qaeda in Iraq, coordinating with other terrorist groups, both Arab and Muslim. "The Iraqi secret services had links to these groups through a person called Faruq Hajizi, later named Iraq's ambassador to Turkey and arrested after the fall of Saddam's regime as he tried to re-enter Iraq. Iraqi secret agents helped terrorists enter the country and directed them to the Ansar al-Islam camps in the Halbija area," he said.
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This guy ties it all together: GHWB assassination plot, Atta, Prague, anthrax, Zarq, Bin Laden, Zawahari, and Afghanistan. He is the man...
This is some of the research I've gathered through the years about the relationship between OBL and Saddam.
It's funny that during the 90's, the MSM wrote frequently about the world's alarm at the growing relationship between the two men, but once it became a political football, the media developed amnesia.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327993/posts
AKI-NEWS = Kosova Action Network News & Information
AKI PRESS = Kyrgxzstan News Agency www.akipress.com
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Yeah, right! I can see this on every front page and news circuit. (dripping sarcasm directed at MSM)
This will be all over the 6 o'clock News tonight and in screaming headlines in the all the major newspapers tomorrow.
I can hardly wait!
On this earth, connections don't get any better than that.
Salman Pak was erected about the same time that Operation Boljika was planned by Al Queda.
That would explain why we have not recieved a second anthrax attack even though the letter said 'We have this Anthrax, You Cannot stop us'. We eliminated the source. The only problem with this theory is we have not found more of this anthrax in Iraq. We did find equipment and labs that may have been capable of making the anthrax.
Or hugh, even.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED that the Saddamites and the bin Laddies had a working relationship in 1999.
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Considering your background, I'm very curious about what you have to say on this. FReegards....
Common sense tells me that terrorists of different groups wouldn't ban together. (Yeh, right).
"Common sense tells me that terrorists of different groups wouldn't ban together. (Yeh, right)."
Funny how the 'wise and learned' forget how nations form. Different groups... eh... banning together? Duh!
Excellent Article....Thanks for bringing that to FR : )
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