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Iraqi Nuke Hawk Went to Niger
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| 8/1/03
| Terence P. Jeffrey
Posted on 08/01/2003 12:57:34 PM PDT by Jean S
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posted on
08/01/2003 12:57:34 PM PDT
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Jean S
To: JeanS
We can surely expect this story to run above the fold in tomorrow's NY Times. Just as I fully expect to win the lottery tonight.
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posted on
08/01/2003 12:58:47 PM PDT
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dirtboy
(Who's that big cat I saw roaming around here again? I thought he went extinct...)
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posted on
08/01/2003 12:59:59 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(All we need from a Governor is a VETO PEN!!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Oh, this can't be right. The democRATS keep telling us that President Bush lied about this. They wouldn't lie, would they? (/sarcasm)
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:04:16 PM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Support whirled peas!)
To: MizSterious
Tom Daschle is disappointed.
To: JeanS
Well, I guess we may come to a point where the administration might have to apologize for apologizing in the first place.
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:10:58 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I am a partisan. Part right and the other part right.)
To: JeanS
"Iraqi Nuke Hawk Went to Niger" I'll bet thats the first time that phrase has been said in human history.
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:12:52 PM PDT
by
isom35
To: William McKinley; Miss Marple; Howlin
:-), more egg for the liberals
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:13:44 PM PDT
by
MJY1288
(The Enemies of America can Count on the Democrats for Aid and Comfort)
To: dirtboy
I'm sure the Houston Chronicle would have run this news if they weren't so busy trashing Tom DeLay everyday.
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:18:35 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: MJY1288
:-), more egg for the liberalsMethinks they'll be shaving with the stuff fairly soon.
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:19:23 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Who's that big cat I saw roaming around here again? I thought he went extinct...)
To: JeanS
He probably just went there to enjoy the climate or something.
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:25:09 PM PDT
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Chancellor Palpatine
Guess we aren't going to hear more about the corruption in the Food for Oil scheme, and where the billions are stored. Vatican Bank for one?
Here's something from 1998 mentioning Zahawie...
http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/old_site/papalvisit2.html Vatican envoy in Iraq denounces embargo again, June 25, 1998
VATICAN (CWNews.com) -- The Vatican's envoy in Baghdad has once again lashed out against the international embargo on Iraq.
In a video message, played at the screening of a new documentary on the effects of that embargo, Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto called upon Christian to show their solidarity with the people of Iraq.
The documentary film, "Iraq Solidarity Action," was produced by Father Jean-Marie Benjamin, a French-born priest serving the diocese of Rome. It was screened today in the presence of the Iraqi ambassador to the Holy See, Wissam Chawket al-Zahawie.
In his video message to the film audience, Archbishop Lazzarotto urged all Christians to "multiple their gestures of solidarity," in order to break through "the isolation created by the embargo." Those who travel to Iraq, he said, would find their a rich culture which deserves understanding and preservation.
The practical effects of the embargo, the papal nuncio continued, have not been changes in government policy, but rather the death of the society's most vulnerable people. As a result, he reported, people are losing their confidence in the future. The best hope for the Iraqi people, he said, would lie in a return to the normal life they enjoyed before the Persian Gulf War.
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:28:01 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: Shermy
A FRENCH priest. Somehow, I don't think he is a conservative.
To: dirtboy
What gets my goat about this whole subject and no one else seems to be picking up on this, is the statement from Stephen Hadley, Bush's #2 guy on National Security...pay close attention to the second sentence...
An unsigned CIA memo on Oct. 5 advised that "the CIA had reservations about the British reporting" on Iraq's alleged attempts in Niger, Hadley said. A second memo, sent on Oct. 6, elaborated on the CIA's doubts, describing "some weakness in the evidence," such as the fact that Iraq already had a large stock of uranium and probably wouldn't need more, Hadley said.Source
The CIA determined that Saddam was not seeking uranium because he already had a large stock? And the Dems are complaining that Bush misled the nation into going to war on the "sought" charge? Why wasn't this info included in the speech instead of the "sought" charge? It is much more damning IMHO.
To: The Old Hoosier
... and saddened.
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:33:41 PM PDT
by
watchin
To: ravingnutter
such as the fact that Iraq already had a large stock of uranium and probably wouldn't need more, Hadley said.Yeah, ain't that a kick in the head? There's a trap waiting to be sprung there, if someone in the GOP is smart enough.
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:35:33 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Who's that big cat I saw roaming around here again? I thought he went extinct...)
To: dirtboy
If the liberals continue getting this much egg on their faces, before long the poultry farmers are gonna have to start beating their chickens in order to get them to lay more eggs :-)
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:35:56 PM PDT
by
MJY1288
(The Enemies of America can Count on the Democrats for Aid and Comfort)
To: Miss Marple
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:38:11 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: MJY1288; Miss Marple; dirtboy; archy; Ernest_at_the_Beach; aristeides; Chancellor Palpatine; ...
Here's something verrrrrry interesting about this Iraq-connected Roman priest:
"....Father Benjamin first came to my attention a few days after the attack on the World Trade Centre, when the Vaticans Online News Agency, Zenit, posted a strange little article claiming that Father Benjamin had been officiating at a high-powered wedding attended by European judges and politicians just a few days before September 11, and that he had told the guests that hed been tipped off that a major US target would be attacked in the next few days using hijacked planes..."
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:42:25 PM PDT
by
Shermy
http://www.unansweredquestions.org/timeline/main/foreignwarnings.html ITALY: Muslims warn of an attack on the US and Britain using hijacked airplanes as weapons
September 7, 2001: Father Jean-Marie Benjamin is told at a wedding in Todi, Italy of a plot to attack the US and Britain using hijacked airplanes as weapons. He isn't told time or place specifics. He immediately passes what he knows to a judge and several politicians. He states: "Although I am friendly with many Muslims, I wondered why they were telling me, specifically. I felt it my duty to inform the Italian government." Benjamin has been called "one of the West's most knowledgeable experts on the Muslim world." Two days after 9/11, he meets with the Italian Foreign Minister on this topic. He says he learned the attack on Britain failed at the last minute. [Zenit, 9/16/01] He has not revealed who told him this information, but could it have been a member of the al-Qaeda cell in Milan (see August 12, 2000 and January 24, 2001), which appears to have helped with the 9/11 attacks?
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=9943 ROME, SEPT. 16, 2001 (Zenit.org).- A priest who has worked in charities in Muslim countries had openly warned about a possible terrorist attack on population centers in the United States and England -- four days before the horrific raids on New York and Washington.
On Sept. 7, when he officiated at a wedding in Todi, Italy, French-born Father Jean-Marie Benjamin, 55, explained informally to a judge and several politicians that he had been told that a terrorist commando was preparing an attack, with hijacked passenger planes, on U.S. and British population centers.
Father Benjamin is regarded as one of the West´s most knowledgeable experts on the Muslim world. He was a U.N. employee from 1983 to 1988, and then decided to consecrate his life to God, being ordained a priest in 1991. Since 1997, he has been working with the people of Iraq, many of whom suffer hunger because of the embargo and Saddam Hussein´s regime.
On Sept. 11, a quarter-hour after the first attack on the Twin Towers, a former European parliamentarian called the priest in great distress, realizing his prediction came true. The priest would not name the official out of respect for his privacy.
Last Thursday, the priest held a 70-minute meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero.
The priest said he had no idea where the attacks would take place specifically. The individuals he met -- whose identity and country he did not reveal to the press -- only mentioned the United States and England, and the use of suicide planes.
According to what the priest has learned, the attack on Great Britain failed at the last minute.
Father Benjamin told ZENIT that in recent months the organization of Muslim terrorist groups has changed.
"In the past, these organizations had autonomous activity, without any links to other bodies," he explained. "But now they have developed a very different apparatus."
"Bin Laden alone is linked to 70 of his organizations in some 30 countries," he added. "In turn, these groups are in touch with some 900 Muslim organizations, located in all the continents, and they have thousands of militants, some of whom are Westerners, who do not have an Arab surname and who don´t even believe in Islam."
The priest also said that bin Laden is not the only point of reference of these organizations. If he should be killed or arrested, the organization -- with thousands of volunteers and activists in 30 countries -- would continue to operate.
This situation makes it extremely difficult to respond to the attacks. The priest recalled: "They told me, ´We do not need atomic bombs or laser-guided missiles. We have enough volunteers and organization to react and put an end to the West in three days.´"
The priest said he believed they were exaggerating on the last point.
"Although I am friendly with many Muslims, I wondered why they were telling me, specifically," he added. "I felt it my duty to inform the Italian government."
The priest lives most of the time in Assisi.
In April 2000, Father Benjamin was the first to violate the embargo imposed on Iraq, when he took medicines to Baghdad to people whose lives were in danger.
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posted on
08/01/2003 1:47:23 PM PDT
by
Shermy
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