"...Titanic Woman (aka Molly Brown) asserted that 'Bush did in fact say that he had proof that Iraq was involved in Sept 11th...And he would show is the proof in the future.'" ~ shhrubbery!
The WH has not made that *specific* connection because there is no apparent, definitive, conclusive evidence tying Iraq to 9-11 *YET*, but the WH is suggesting that there _IS_ evidence linking Iraq to the 1993 WRC bombing.
So to "connect the dots" if they tried it once, only a dim-wit, or someone with an agenda/vendetta against Bush, would be STUPID enough to actually believe that they wouldn't try it again .... like on 9-11. Duh!!!
Read on:
This is from The Iraq News Letter published by Laurie Mylroie:
From: "Laurie Mylroie"
sam11@erols.com Subject: Cheney: Iraqi Link to 1993 Trade Center Bombing
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:30:50 -0400
The White House, for the first time, has publicly suggested Iraq might be linked to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
In fact, at the time, New York FBI believed that Iraq was involved, while the US Attorney's office there (focused on securing the convictions of those charged and arrested)
was quite open to the possibility.
Meet the Press
September 14, 2003
Host: Tim Russert
Guest: Vice President Dick Cheney
(Excerpt)
MR. RUSSERT: The Washington Post asked the American people about Saddam Hussein, and this is what they said: 69 percent said he was involved in the September 11 attacks. Are you surprised by that?
VICE PRES. CHENEY: No. I think it's not surprising that people make that connection.
MR. RUSSERT: But is there a connection?
VICE PRES. CHENEY: We don't know. You and I talked about this two years ago. I can remember you asking me this question just a few days after the original attack.
At the time I said no, we didn't have any evidence of that.
Subsequent to that, we've learned a couple of things. We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the '90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW and CW, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Baghdad to get trained on the systems that are involved.
The Iraqis providing bomb-making expertise and advice to the al-Qaeda organization.
We know, for example, in connection with the original World Trade Center bombing in '93 that one of the bombers was Iraqi, returned to Iraq after the attack of '93.
And we've learned subsequent to that, since we went into
Baghdad and got into the intelligence files, that this individual probably also received financing from the Iraqi government as well as safe haven.
[Ed: This is Abdul Rahman Yasin, who was indicted in August 1993, and is the sole remaining fugitive from that attack]
Now, is there a connection between the Iraqi government and the original World Trade Center bombing in '93? We know, as I say, that one of the perpetrators of that act did, in fact, receive support from the Iraqi government after the fact.
With respect to 9/11, of course, we've had the story that's been public out there.
The Czechs alleged that Mohamed Atta, the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack, but we've never been able to develop anymore of that yet either in terms of confirming it or discrediting it. We just don't know.