Posted on 01/30/2003 9:32:30 AM PST by honway
The CIA is blocking critical intelligence that links Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks, a former top terrorism advisor to President Clinton is contending, and by doing so, she says, the agency is weakening President Bush's case for war against Iraq.
Asked about Salman Pak, the terrorist training camp near Baghdad where, according to a number of Iraqi defectors, al Qaeda terrorists have practiced for years hijacking American airliners using the same methods employed on 9/11, Clinton Iraqi expert Laurie Mylroie told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg:
"There's a huge debate within the (Bush) administration. The Defense Department wants to bring out information like that. The CIA, which is responsible for dealing with terrorism, accommodated Clinton's desire not to hear about Iraq and terrorism, does not want that information to come out. It acts as Saddam's lawyer."
Mylroie served as President Clinton's top advisor on Iraq during the 1992 campaign, and she has lectured on Middle Eastern terrorism and its origins at the Naval War College and Harvard University. Mylroie is also author of the book, "The War Against America," which details Baghdad's role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Just minutes before Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday night, Mylroie told Malzberg, "For any official statement to be made by the government, there is an interagency review process and the CIA blocks (the Salman Pak) information. Their response is to say, the defectors are not reliable - because they oppose Saddam you can't believe them."
What about satellite photos backing up accounts from Salman Pak defectors who describe a Boeing 707 parked on the ground, which they say serves as a classroom for Saddam's hijack trainees?
According to Mylroie, the CIA offers the bizarre alibi that the plane "could have been used by the Iraqis for counter-hijacking."
The Clinton terrorism expert says the White House is partly to blame for not forcing U.S. intelligence services to be more forthright about the information they have on Salman Pak, complaining, "Bush has failed to discipline the bureaucracy. And they have put their careers above Bush's career."
Asked to detail the precise role of Iraq in al Qaeda operations directed against the U.S., Mylroie told WABC, "Al Qaeda acts as a front for Iraqi intelligence. Al Qaeda provides the ideology, the foot soldiers and the cover. And Iraqi intelligence provides the direction, training and expertise."
Commenting on reports that the White House would use the State of the Union address to reinforce the argument that Saddam has been working with al Qaeda for years, Mylroie noted, "I'm glad (President Bush) is going to talk about Iraq and al Qaeda. (But) I have some concern that because powerful individuals and institutions are even now unwilling to acknowledge their error, the case is going to be a lot weaker than it could be."
Which should read... it's no wondered we aren't liked nor trusted in the world.
I'm really going to have to proofread.
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I understand that people must earn a living, but there will always be that question in the back of my mind.
I have a close friend from India who comes from a family of diplomats, and through his contacts he knew far more about the U.S. efforts in Kosovo than most Americans did. He knew better than anyone else that the U.S. action there was an absolute disgrace.
"This is why India tests neclear weapons," he told me at the time, "We will never be abused by a world power like that."
I must be misunderstanding you -- he was never "ousted" at all. But he damned well should have been.
That's a question I'd like answered as well, frankly. It's not like Saddam was an unknown entity even if he was fighting Iran and we didn't exactly mind. I suppose whether or not we find out for sure depends on where the fallout would land.
This has had devestating effects even today. They don't trust us.
I think you would like Yossef Bodansky's book. "The High Cost of Peace." But, I warn you, just when you thought you knew the depths of Clinton's depravity... you get hit with a whole new level.
Can you elaborate more on the Kosovo matter.
If proven, or especially if widely accepted whether true or not, this could result in the wholesale destruction of the Arab innocent with the guilty. Consider what would happen if a couple of CBW aerosol canisters go off in Tel Aviv and New York. Baghdad could well be vaporized, even though Saddam would have trapped many civilians who wish they were elsewhere in the city.
When the "air war" was over, the true level of U.S. depravity was revealed when some well-connected people in the defense ministries of other NATO countries began to put the pieces together. It turns out that one of the primary reasons for the long bombing campaign was that the U.S. military used it as a cheap way to dispose of large quantities of munitions (particularly Tomahawk cruise missiles) that were going to be taken out of service at the end of 1999 due to potential Y2K-related limitations in the guidance software.
What made the Clinton administration's actions particularly diabolical (and rendered him a war criminal, in the minds of many foreign governments) was that the U.S. military was well aware of potential health concerns related to some depleted-uranium munitions but dropped them anyway. This, in fact, was precisely why the U.S. was adamant about keeping U.S. peacekeepers out of large areas of Serbia but never expressed any warning to the Germans and Italians who were going to be stationed there.
I would like to look into Kosovo a little bit more. Can you recommend any books...
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