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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (185578)	4/24/2006 2:34:16 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I was pointing out that your article does not support a link between Saddam and Al Qaeda. Suicide bombings were around long before the attacks on WTC. "Suicide attacks are a kind of tactic, planned and organized by extremely committed military or paramilitary groups. This tactic became widely known during the Second World War in the Pacific as Allied ships were attacked by Japanese kamikaze pilots who caused maximum damage by flying their explosive-laden aircraft into military targets. Since the 1980s, the low cost and high lethality of the tactic have made it a favorite with guerrilla, insurgent, and especially terrorist groups, notably in the Middle East and Sri Lanka. The Tamil Tigers were, as of 2000, "unequivocally the most effective and brutal terrorist organization ever to utilize suicide terrorism" (according to Yoram Schweitzer of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Israel: [2]); since the Tigers signed a cease-fire in 2001, suicide bombings by Islamist militants, mostly in the Al-Aqsa Intifada and the Iraqi insurgency, have been the most frequent and cumulatively destructive. The September 11, 2001 attacks used hijacked airplanes to become the largest and most destructive individual suicide attacks on one day." "Because when an Iraqi document is discovered, indicating that applications are being taken for suicide pilots PRIOR to 9/11, and you don't find that suspicious, let alone damning evidence of Saddam's support for terrorism, then we're left with only one conclusion.." What follows is an uncalled for ad hominem attack. Try to focus on the subject, Saddam and al-Qaeda. Or on the ex CIA man who claims that the administration wasn't interested in intelligence that stated that Saddam didn't have WMDs(60 Minutes).

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (185578)	4/24/2006 2:54:49 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Here are some facts. cbsnews.com " When no weapons of mass destruction surfaced in Iraq, President Bush insisted that all those WMD claims before the war were the result of faulty intelligence. But a former top CIA official, Tyler Drumheller — a 26-year veteran of the agency — has decided to do something CIA officials at his level almost never do: Speak out. He tells correspondent Ed Bradley the real failure was not in the intelligence community but in the White House. He says he saw how the Bush administration, time and again, welcomed intelligence that fit the president's determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not." Perhaps you would like to read the interview. Perhaps you would like to refute the interview.