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To: American Spirit who wrote (10525)	6/26/2004 9:14:45 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 90947

Richard Clarke cited cooperation between Iraq and Al Qaeda when defending the Clinton administration bombing of the Sudanese plant. Iraq conspired with Bin Laden to produce WMDs...according to Richard Clarke Washington Post Posted on 03/22/2004 10:37:25 PM PST by Jim_Curtis 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. Clarke did provide new information in defense of Clinton's decision to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles at the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan, in retaliation for bin Laden's role in the Aug. 7 embassy bombings. While U.S. intelligence officials disclosed shortly after the missile attack that they had obtained a soil sample from the El Shifa site that contained a precursor of VX nerve gas, 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. Given the evidence presented to the White House before the airstrike, Clarke said, the president "would have been derelict in his duties if he didn't blow up the facility." Clarke said the U.S. does not believe that bin Laden has been able to acquire chemical agents, biological toxins or nuclear weapons. If evidence of such an acquisition existed, he said, "we would be in the process of doing something." (Excerpted from "Embassy Attacks Thwarted, U.S. Says; Official Cites Gains Against Bin Laden; Clinton Seeks $10 Billion to Fight Terrorism," Vernon Loeb, Washington Post, A02, January 23, 1999.) Thanks to Wallaby for looking up this old article, I thought it deserved its own thread since I've heard the libs whine a thousand times that there is no link between OBL and Saddam. Well, their new hero thinks so. 1 posted on 03/22/2004 10:37:25 PM PST by Jim_Curtis www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1103455/posts?page=1,50