Bin Laden made an agreement in the mid 90s to cease terrorist activities against Iraq. Thus his meeting with director of the Iraqi mukhabarat in 1996, his meeting, eight times, with officers of Iraq's Special Security Organization, Iraqi intelligence operative, Salah Suleiman's, shuttling between Iraqi intelligence and Ayman al Zawahiri, Yusuf Galan — who is charged by a Spanish court with being "directly involved with the preparation and planning" of the Sept. 11 attacks — invititation to a party at the Iraqi embassy in Madrid, Iraqi Fedayeen Colonel Abu Mohammed's account of seeing Bin Laden's fighters in Iraq in 1997 at Salman Pak where militants trained to hijack planes with knives — on a full-size Boeing 707. Dr. Zawahiri's bodyguard's account of a meeting between Saddam in Baghdad in 1992. Colon Powell's statement at the UN that following the defeat of the Taliban, almost two dozen bin Laden associates "converged on Baghdad and established a base of operations there," From their Baghdad base, the secretary said, they supervised the movement of men, materiel and money for al Qaeda's global network. Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi oversaw an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. That after being wonded, Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi sought medical treatment in Baghdad in May 2002. When he recovered, he restarted a training camp in northern Iraq. Zarqawi's Iraq cell was later tied to the October 2002 murder of Lawrence Foley, a U.S. Agency for International Development official. The captured assassin confessed that he received orders and funds from Zarqawi's cell in Iraq. That documents found among the debris of the Iraqi Intelligence Center show that Baghdad funded the Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan terror group led by an Islamist cleric linked to bin Laden. According to a London's Daily Telegraph, the organization offered to recruit "youth to train for the jihad" at a "headquarters for international holy warrior network" in Baghdad.
* CIA Director George Tenet told the Senate Intelligence Committee: "Iraq has in the past provided training in document-forgery and bomb-making to al Qaeda. It also provided training in poisons and gasses to two al Qaeda associates; one of these [al Qaeda] associates characterized the relationship as successful.
This information is based on a solid foundation of intelligence. It comes to us from credible and reliable sources. Much of it is corroborated by multiple sources."
And all you have to say is:
One could EASILY illustrate that there is "a link" between al Qaeda... and nearly EVERY NATION ON THE EARTH, our's included.
Certainly, al Qaeda was born with Saudi and American funding and training and supply during the Afghan war against the Soviets.
But, if one wants to narrow the field down and just focus on where it has received the greatest support and aid from over the past few years... then the list's 'top 10' would CERTAINLY include: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, etc.
Iraq wouldn't make the 'top 10' list of supporters, in that Saddam and bin Laden have been trying to KILL each other for many years.
Until very recently, a large amount of funds was recruited from the West as well, (often under false premises, sometimes not.)
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You'd have to be stupid or politically driven to deny that Iraq had serious links with al qeada and not consider those links one of many of the biggest threats to the civilized world.
Using you as an example, God help us all if dems win in Nov.
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