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To: GST who wrote (191726)	7/15/2006 12:40:09 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What arrogant bullroar. Hey butthole.. Maybe if you took more time doing some reseach online, than espousing the same old tired BS, you'd have more credibility.. All you do is criticize the information others offer. The ultimate arrogance is displayed when people like yourself try and tell me that I didn't see WHAT I KNOW I SAW. If you're stop your ranting and raving over your hatred for Bush, you might just learn something you didn't know before. Bush will be gone in two years.. But the facts that have been uncovered as a result of the overthrow of Saddam WILL NOT. Obviously I can't detail everything I've seen because some of it has been classified, and the rest, such as the original Iraqi documents, have not been publicly released yet.. Whey they are publicly released, I feel I have the ability to bring them to people's attention and comment on them. There is a plethora of information detailing how Iraqi Intelligence was courting operational cooperation with Al Qai'da as far back as the mid-90s. Zawahiri stayed as a guest of Iraqi Intelligence in Spring, 1998. The majority of Al Qai'da cell leaders being captured in Iraq have connections to Iraqi Intelligence, or their Special Security Organization. Iraq was operating Terrorist training camps.. (the same thing that the Taliban were permitting Al Qai'da to do in Afghanistan), where THOUSANDS of terrorists had been trained: weeklystandard.com It is early, but the emerging picture suggests that the U.S. intelligence community underestimated Saddam Hussein's interest in terrorism. One U.S. intelligence official, identified only as an "IC analyst" in the Senate Select Intelligence Committee report on Iraq, summarized the intelligence community's view on Iraq and terrorism with disarming candor: "I don't think we were really focused on the CT [counterterrorism] side, because we weren't concerned about the IIS [Iraqi Intelligence Service] going out and proactively conducting terrorist attacks. It wasn't until we realized that there was the possibility of going to war that we had to get a handle on that." A report produced by the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, signed by all members of the Intelligence Committee, Democrats and Republicans, offered this withering assessment of the intelligence community's work on Iraq and terrorism: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) did not have a focused human intelligence (HUMINT) collection strategy targeting Iraq's links to terrorism until 2002. The CIA had no [redacted] sources on the ground in Iraq reporting specifically on terrorism. It wasn't just Iraq. "The CIA had no [redacted] credible reporting on the leadership of either the Iraqi regime or al Qaeda, which would have enabled it to better define a cooperative relationship, if any did in fact exist." Now if you want to know some more, I'll provide you a link to Ray Robison, who was also assigned to ISG, but worked in a different area than I. He has some quite extensive links and commentary regarding the connections between the IIS and Al Qai'da, as well as other terrorist groups. rayrobison.typepad.com rayrobison.typepad.com weeklystandard.com Hawk