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Abu Nidal, September 11
And Saddam
Wall St. Journal ^
| Aug 21, 2002
| ASLA AYDINTASBAS
Posted on 08/21/2002 3:27:49 AM PDT by The Raven
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:56 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Numerous groups had reason to wish the death of the Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal, reported to have committed "suicide" in his Baghdad home -- albeit with multiple gunshot wounds. The likely conspirators include the Israelis, the PLO leadership, Gulf states he successfully blackmailed, or former friends -- like Moammar Gadhafi and Syria -- that he might have crossed in one deal or another.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: abunidal; atta; iraq
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posted on
08/21/2002 3:27:49 AM PDT
by
The Raven
To: The Raven
The liberal media is doing W's job for him by pointing out yet another inkling of the need to oust Saddam.
2
posted on
08/21/2002 3:50:06 AM PDT
by
cardinal4
To: aristeides
Ping
To: The Raven
Thanks for the post. It does appear Saddam is frantic to prevent an attack by the U.S. I continue to believe he's working on a location suitable for exile if our forces create too much pressure. At this point Saddam is afraid of his own people as well IMHO.
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posted on
08/21/2002 5:05:03 AM PDT
by
toddst
To: Fred Mertz; The Great Satan
FYI.
To: toddst
At this point Saddam is afraid of his own people as well IMHO. What's more, Saddam has just given his lieutenants additional reason to fear him. Maybe that'll keep them in line, maybe not. It looks as if, in the end, Saddam's model Stalin was done in by his lieutenants.
To: cardinal4
How about: "The All American newspaper the Wall Street Journal is assisting the war effort by spreading the President's message"
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posted on
08/21/2002 5:53:20 AM PDT
by
bert
To: The Raven; OKCSubmariner; honway; MizSterious; BlueDogDemo; Nita Nupress; Wallaby; Lion's Cub; ...
Then there were the visits to Prague by Atta. On two separate occasions, Atta -- not a man given to the earthly pleasures of sightseeing -- traveled to Prague to meet Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, an Iraqi agent later expelled from the Czech Republic as a spy. Since the information surfaced last fall, there have been numerous efforts to bury the story -- the most tangible evidence linking Sept. 11 to Baghdad. The Czech government, however, had little reason to question its own intelligence on the Atta trips and stood by the story. Last month, a high-ranking White House official confirmed the meeting."Stuff" like this just "gets me mad".
Why all the previous hype to discredit the story to only come back now and say that it really happened?
OUTRAGEOUS behavior, approved and accepted.
Cheer what? Cheer who?
To: philman_36
Cheer what? Cheer who?Well, we could cheer Nidal's departure--if we were sure he was dead :)
The fact is we're all sitting on the sidelines with very few reference points for distinguishing truth from fiction, and we won't really know whether the Bush administration is a friend or a foe until it's over.
As for the Atta/Iraq connection, I don't know why the flip-flops. Maybe it was part of setting Nidal up. Maybe they were testing for leaks. Maybe they want to keep the worker bees so off balance that they can't believe anything they read.
To: Lion's Cub
Maybe they want to keep the worker bees so off balance that they can't believe anything they read.
I'll go with the hive mentality too. It works to great effect.
As far as Nidal...Ollie is tickled pink at the news, if true.
"He's dead and I'm alive."
To: Lion's Cub
As for the Atta/Iraq connection, I don't know why the flip-flops. There have been no flip-flops. The administration simply dodged the question until earlier this month, when they finally affirmed the connection sotto voce to the LA Times, with a promise to affirm it not-so-sotto voce in the future.
BTW, the channel for the anonymous attempts to discredit the connection, Newsweek, is the same channel which recently tried to keep alive the "rogue scientist" anthrax theory by reporting that bloodhounds had detected the smell of ten-month-old anthrax letters on the person of Steve Hatfill's ex-girlfriend.
Can you figure out what's going on here?
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