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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marion (Hijacked) who wrote (15963)	4/27/2003 1:23:42 AM
From: Mike M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

As we suspected...Al qaida link and French embarrassment: Papers: Documents Show Iraq-Al Qaida Link published 10:26 PM - APRIL 26, 2003 Eastern Time Two newspapers reported that they found documents in the bombed out headquarters of Iraq's intelligence service that appear to show that Saddam Hussein's regime met with an al-Qaida envoy in 1998 and sought to arrange a meeting with Osama bin Laden. Papers found by reporters working for the Toronto Star and Britain's Sunday Telegraph appear to show that purpose of the meeting was to establish a relationship between Baghdad and al-Qaida based on their mutual hatred of the United States and Saudi Arabia, the newspapers reported in their Sunday editions. The 1998 meeting went so well that it was extended by a week and ended with arrangements being discussed for bin Laden to visit Baghdad, said the newspapers, which had reporters working together with Iraqi translators on the story. Journalists found the documents in the rubble of one of the rooms of the intelligence headquarters, the papers said. Bin Laden's name appears three times in the handwritten file, with each reference clumsily concealed with white-out correction fluid and then blackened with ink, the Toronto Star wrote. The Toronto Star recounted how a translator named Amir scraped off the white correction fluid to reveal bin Laden's name. "It says bin Laden! It says bin Laden," the Toronto Star quoted Amir as exclaiming. One of the pages, dated Feb. 19, was marked "top secret and urgent" and referred to plans for the trip from Sudan of the unnamed envoy, who is described in the file as a trusted confidant of bin Laden's, the Sunday Telegraph said. The document, signed, "MDA," which the Telegraph said is a code name believed to belong to the director of one of the Iraqi intelligence sections, said the Iraqis sought to pay for the envoy's costs while in Iraq "to gain the knowledge of the message from bin Laden and to convey to his envoy an oral message from us to bin Laden." The message to bin Laden "would relate to the future of our relationship with him, bin Laden, and to achieve a direct meeting with him," the Telegraph quoted the document as saying. The other documents confirm that the envoy traveled from Khartoum in Sudan to Baghdad in March 1998 and that he stayed at the al-Mansour Melia hotel, it said. The documents do not mention whether any meeting took place between bin Laden and Iraqi officials, the Telegraph said. Separately, The Sunday Times reported that its own journalists had found documents in the Iraqi foreign ministry that indicate that France gave Saddam Hussein's regime regular reports on its dealings with American officials. The newspaper said the documents reveal that Paris shared with Baghdad the contents of private trans-Atlantic meetings and diplomatic traffic from Washington. One document, dated Sept. 25, 2001, from Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri to Saddam's palace, was based on a briefing from the French ambassador in Baghdad and covered talks between presidents Jacques Chirac and George W. Bush. rr.com

To: marion (Hijacked) who wrote (15963)	4/27/2003 11:06:08 AM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 21614

Marion my hands are very clean. I suggest you use your own hands. Wouldn't want to touch you...... YECCCCHHHHHHHH

To: marion (Hijacked) who wrote (15963)	4/29/2003 10:01:02 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Sharon's forlorn trek to Crawford --close, but no cigar: By the Rivers of Babylon Hussein Shobokshi The red carpet will be laid out in the White House, candles lit, drinks served, and every one will waltz the night away next week. Sharon, the Israeli war criminal who is currently its prime minister, will be in town! He will be the guest of honor at the May function in Washington DC in celebrating the 55th anniversary of the creation of Israel. This will be another shameful chapter in America's alliance with this war criminal, a relationship that has brought America nothing but mistrust and resentment from people all over the world. Sharon is supported in Washington by a group of neo-conservative politicians that have decided to put Israel's interest above America's, and there lies the big and dangerous problem. It's been a month since the war on Iraq started, and there are no traces of the weapons of mass destruction yet. Sharon has been begging and lobbying the American administration to invade Syria and "look" for the Iraqi weapons there and, while it is at it, to pass through Iran. What sad times we live in when a group of madmen who in the name of a sick political-religious ideology [Judeofascism] have managed to hijack America's foreign policy, threaten and, in some cases, destroy its relationship with its allies and friends. Speaking of weapons of mass destruction, Sharon - better known in the White House as the man of peace - is currently in charge of a mega arsenal, and recently passed Britain to become the world's fifth largest nuclear power and now rivals France and China in the size and sophistication of its nuclear armory. He currently possesses 500 thermo-nuclear weapons as a result of a nuclear program that began in the late 1940's. All of this sophisticated and brutal weaponry helped Israel invade and occupy the lands of its neighboring countries, terrorize and murder Arabs without any attempt by the Americans to put an end to this hypocrisy. What the world would like to see is some decent and honest policies from the Americans, a president to forget about the Jewish lobby, look Israel in the eye and demand its withdrawal from the occupied land, dismantle its weapons of mass destruction and stop torturing and killing civilians. Can it be done? Sure it can. But will it be done? Now that's another question altogether. America needs to be liberated from the war hawks that have hijacked its glory. The whole world needs a free and decent American administration. Arab News Features 29 April 2003 arabnews.com QUIZ DU JOUR: Who's gonna make it FIRST to Crawford --Sharon or Chirac??? Place your bets!