The mainstream press is trying hard to ignore it or they just didn't even read the documents. They count on people trusting them for the news. This is key here:
According to the report, “In March, 1998, after bin Laden’s public fatwa against the United States, two al Qaeda members reportedly went to Iraq to meet with Iraqi intelligence. In July, an Iraqi delegation traveled to Afghanistan to meet first with the Taliban and then with bin Laden.”
The report cited intelligence that “one, or perhaps both, of these meetings was apparently arranged through bin Laden’s Egyptian deputy, [Ayman al] Zawahiri, who had ties of his own to the Iraqis.”
As a result of those meetings, and more in 1999, the report says, Saddam “offered bin Laden a safe haven in Iraq.” But bin Laden decided to stay in Afghanistan, where he was getting along better with the Taliban.
And that’s where “boogie to Baghdad” came in. |
