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Powell: New Bin Laden Statement Confirms Iraq Link
FOX NEWS ^
| Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Posted on 02/11/2003 11:58:10 AM PST by Republican_Strategist
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:35:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; binladen; iraq; saddam
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To: Republican_Strategist
Usama bin Laden says he "is in partnership with Iraq" Well, I guess that confirms that the tape was made in Langley, Virginia.
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posted on
02/11/2003 12:00:39 PM PST
by
CholeraJoe
(Chirac wears frilly underwear)
To: Republican_Strategist
Boy, the Iraqis can't catch a break(g).
Thank you, Osama. You just gave us the blank check, signed by yourself, that we need to blow Iraq to kingdom come.
Talk about someone failing Strategery, 101.....
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posted on
02/11/2003 12:02:16 PM PST
by
Bryan24
To: Republican_Strategist
What we all fail to see is the Moslem vs the Infidel connection. In our lifetime, Islam will try to take over the world, and either force us to become Moslems, or die.
What we 'infidels' should be going is preparing for the Crusades.
To: CholeraJoe
You beat me to it, CJ.
If this were the Clinton administration, a lot of us would have thought the tape was a domestic product....maybe with Paul Begala doing the voice of Osama.
Of course, nowadays it couldn't happen. Could it?
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posted on
02/11/2003 12:04:35 PM PST
by
RJCogburn
(Yes, it is pretty bold talk......)
To: Republican_Strategist
Powell noted that while "much is being said about disagreement in NATO," that 16 members -- including the United States and Turkey -- back the U.S. position, while three -- France, Germany and Russia -- oppose it. Although it's possible he misspoke, I'm thinking our Sec. of State knows that Russia is not a NATO country. Should have read "France, Germany and Belgium."
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posted on
02/11/2003 12:05:04 PM PST
by
Coop
To: CholeraJoe
You have an overactive imagination and you dont really understand the difficulties that I said make it an impossibility for someone to create such a tape.
To: Republican_Strategist
Um...
Huh?
I'm not so sure that I can believe this. It makes me question the other audiotapes.
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To: Republican_Strategist
"At a separate hearing, CIA Director George Tenet said that he, too, was aware of a new communication from bin Laden, but told the Senate Intelligence Committee he had not been briefed on its contents. "I don't know what the contents will be," Tenet told the panel."
Does the intelligence pipeline bypass the CIA Director? Wow!
To: Republican_Strategist
Is there anyone who is surprised that Saddam is deeply involved in many terror orgs.?
To: jbind
Just because Bin Laden supports Saddam doesn't mean they are in cahoots.
Exactly. If the case against Iraq is strong, why does Powell need to resort to such blatant propaganda?
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posted on
02/11/2003 12:09:00 PM PST
by
Belial
To: CholeraJoe
No, it confirms that he timed the tape to coincide with the end of the muslim hajj.
To: matthew_the_brain
How right you are. These terrorist nations/orgs. are h#ll bent on destroying western civilization.
To: anobjectivist
You are so sure? Well, Im not going to sit here and try to reassure you all because all it took was one person to cast doubts in your minds and its pretty clear you all are being led around the nose.
Read, Powell said he read a transcript of "what bin Laden or who we believe to be bin Laden" will be saying on the Al-Jazeera Arab satellite station later Tuesday, "where once again he speaks to the people of Iraq and talks about their struggle and how he is in partnership with Iraq.
What she did was focus on Bin Laden saying he was in a partnership with Iraq has to leave out who his audience was while people assumed he was talking to some Iraqi official, which might not have made sense to some people. It makes sense to me because we are going to war with Iraq, I believe the partnership has always been apparent, and his reaffirming support to Iraq given they are sponsoring him would make perfect sense.
To: Republican_Strategist
Where will the people who said you can't find a link to terrorism and Iraq go now for their argument?
Can't say that Osama's dead--that ruins another argument about where is the priority need of the war on terrorists.
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posted on
02/11/2003 12:13:47 PM PST
by
wildbill
To: anobjectivist
You have to be kidding right?
To: jbind
Complete nonsense!!
To: jbind
Please do a little reading at the link I posted below the article and do a little more homework.
To: Belial
Here's what we know about this terrorist presence already before the details are provided by Powell:
Iraq has supported al-Qaida for more than a decade;
al-Qaida has operatives in Iraq today;
Iraq has assisted al-Qaida with the purchase of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons;
Iraq has never stopped its covert attempts to develop weapons of mass destruction;
Iraq itself has been implicated in terrorist attacks on the U.S.
The question is why are you turning towards such blatant denials. Oh yeah, terrorists leaders in part telling the Iraqi people that they are in cohoots with their government given Iraq knew about 9/11 long before it took place and provided training and so forth must of course mean nothing and surely doesnt warrant us going to war.
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