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To: zonder who wrote (8848)	3/26/2004 12:18:12 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 20773

That's pretty damning stuff.

To: zonder who wrote (8848)	3/26/2004 10:32:46 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 20773

This is also interesting: RC: We all believed Saddam had WMD. What I kept saying was: So what?. They said he could give it to terrorists. But I said he's not that stupid. If he gave WMD to terrorists he would lose power. Compare this to what Clarke had said about Iraq and Al Qaeda and chemical weapons two years before: Clarke said that the U.S. government is "sure" that Iraqi nerve gas experts actually produced a powdered VX-like substance at the plant that, when mixed with bleach and water, would have become fully active VX nerve gas. Clarke said U.S. intelligence does not know how much of the substance was produced at El Shifa or what happened to it. But he said that intelligence exists linking bin Laden to El Shifa's current and past operators, the Iraqi nerve gas experts and the National Islamic Front in Sudan. Message 19949283 So summing up, Clarke claims he said in 2001, sure Saddam has WMD's but he's too smart to give them to terrorists. But 2 years before, he was claiming Iraqi WMD experts linked to bin Ladin had produced VX nerve gas in the Sudan. Hmmmm.

To: zonder who wrote (8848)	3/27/2004 3:41:40 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

When I said let's start talking about Bin Laden, he said Bin Laden couldn't possibly have attacked the World Trade Centre in '93. One little terrorist group like that couldn't possibly have staged that operation. It must have been Iraq. That was the only revelation I have seen in Clarke's book. At a National Security Council meeting, Wolfowitz actually cited Laurie Mylroie as a source of information! Absolutely stunning! Even her colleagues dismiss her as a crackpot. This revelation is grounds for Wolfowitz' immediate dismissal. Everything else in the book is old news, except that it is splendid to finally see the mass media covering it. Tom