Taranto sums up a couple of recent stories well:
Who's Distracted?
The New York Times describes a " 'top secret' intelligence memo" found at Iraq's secret police headquarters:
Written in Arabic and dated May 20, 2001, the memo from the Iraqi intelligence station chief in an African country described an offer by a "holy warrior" to sell uranium and other nuclear material. The bid was rejected, the memo states, because of the United Nations "sanctions situation." But the station chief wrote that the source was eager to provide similar help at a more convenient time.
But wait. Before the fighting started, we kept hearing that Saddam Hussein was a devoted secularist who would never join forces with any "holy warrior" types. Does this mean the people who said that were--perish the thought--wrong?
In the same building, U.S. searchers found "a perfect mock-up of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, as well as mock-ups of downtown Jerusalem and official Israeli buildings in very fine detail. They also collected a satellite picture of Dimona, Israel's nuclear complex, and a female mannequin dressed in an Israeli Air Force uniform, standing in front of a list of Israeli officers' ranks and insignia."
London's Independent, meanwhile, reports from Gaza that "with the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, the flow of millions of dollars that the Iraqi leader sent to support the Palestinian intifada has abruptly ended." This gives the lie to the claim that Saddam's regime had nothing to do with terrorism--except to those who believe it isn't terrorism if the victims are only Jews.
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