Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (122738)	6/30/2005 2:54:12 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793890

he "had nothing to do" with Al Qaeda is ridiculous. Well, of course, it's ridiculous. Absurd, really. But no one gives a hoot anymore. A link to McCarthy's most excellent NRO piece: nationalreview.com The story of Saddam's connections to OBL and AQ has been pretty well documented, but routinely ignored now that the conventional wisdom is that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, had no WMD, was a prince of a guy, yada, yada...... Ahmed Hikmat Shakir — A nasty Iraqi guy: weeklystandard.com He attended the 1/2000 meeting in Kuala Lumpur which was the first planning session for 9/11. Saddam tried to set up a bombing of Radio Free Europe's Prague offices using the same guy who probably met with Mohammed Atta during his visits to Prague before 9/11, a story the Czechs have not retracted: praguepost.cz Then there's bin Laden's indictment in 1998 by Clinton's DOJ in which it is alleged that Saddam and bin Laden had a deal to work in tandem, including work on weapons development. fas.org Iraq Intelligence Service records show that Iraq, as early as 1992, thought of bin Laden as a "friendly." cshink.com Despite the lack of resources devoted to Iraq-al Qaeda connections, the Iraq Survey Group has obtained some interesting new information. In the spring of 1992, according to Iraqi Intelligence documents obtained by the ISG after the war, Osama bin Laden met with Iraqi Intelligence officials in Syria. A second document, this one captured by the Iraqi National Congress and authenticated by the Defense Intelligence Agency, then listed bin Laden as an Iraqi Intelligence "asset" who "is in good relationship with our section in Syria." A third Iraqi Intelligence document, this one an undated internal memo, discusses strategy for an upcoming meeting between Iraqi Intelligence, bin Laden, and a representative of the Taliban. On the agenda: "attacking American targets." This seems significant. Saddam also harbored World Trade Center bomber--1993--Abdul Rahman Yasin. usatoday.com The Clinton administration never retracted its story that the 1998 strike against the Sudan pharmaceutical factory was permissible because it was a chemical weapons facility tied to Iraq and bin Laden. Richard Clarke never wavered in his story that Saddam had offered bin Laden asylum after the Africa embassy bombings. Moreover, why did Clarke's memo to Sandy Berger suggest that no U-2 missions be flown against bin Laden in Afghanistan because he might be tipped off by Pakistani Intelligence. Osama would then "likely boogie to Baghdad"? qando.net And there's more, a lot more...... How easily we forget. The point of the invasion, among others, but one I consdider paramount, is that there will be serious consequences to any regime that harbors and assists terrorists who target the US. The Syrian Boy Wonder/Baby Doc is doing the best he can to get himself in our crosshairs.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (122738)	6/30/2005 3:01:12 PM
From: MrLucky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793890

Don't remember the author, but sometime before the election, I read an article that emphasized how hussein used a couple passenger aircraft out in the desert to train his people in takeover tactics. I would assume, since obl has no country, he used similar facilities to train his suicide murders prior to the WTC event. Anyone who thinks obl did not prepare for all eventualities is naive. Therefore, it is no surprise me to hear that obl and hussein had a hand shake of this type of training. How could hussein resist? Since the US made him look like an ass after Iraq I.