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I am so sick and tired of hearing "There is no connection between Iraq and al Qaeda!" because there is! Quite a few connections actually! Here are just A FEW:
If you would like a complete list of connections, which is 17 pages long, check out the new book by Richard Miniter, "Disinformation : 22 Media Myths that Undermine the War on Terror". A FANTASTIC read, full of eye-opening information!
- Malaysian intelligence in January 2000 took pictures of Ahmed Hikat Shakir, who was an Iraqi intelligence operative, attending key planning meetings with al Qaeda for the bombing of the USS Cole and the September 11th attacks.
- Iraqi intelligence documents obtained after the first Gulf War show bin Laden meeting with Iraqi intelligence officers in 1992.
- Michael Scheuer, the former head of the bin Laden unit at the CIA and a critic of the Bush administration, wrote in his 2002 book "Through Our Enemies Eyes" that bin Laden "made a connection with Iraq's intelligence service through its Khartoum station."
- Clinton Justice Department attorney Patrick Fitzgerald prepared an indictment of bin Laden, in which he wrote "Al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and than on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the government of Iraq".
- Britain's leading left-liberal newspaper, the Guardian, reported in 1999 that Faruq al-Hijazi, a senior officer in Iraq's mukhabarat, had journeyed deep into the icy mountains near Khandahar, Afghanistan, in December 1998 to meet with al Qaeda officers. He was "thought to have offered bin Laden asylum in Iraq," the Guardian reported.
- In "The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America", Stephen Hayes writes about captured Iraqi documents: "In 1998, according to documents unearthed in Iraq's intelligence headquarters in April 2003, al Qaeda sent a 'trusted confidante' to Baghdad for sixteen days of meetings beginning March 5. Iraqi intelligence paid for his stay in Room 414 of the Mansur al-Melia hotel and expressed hope that the envoy would serve as the liaison between Iraqi intelligence and bin Laden. The DIA [the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency] has assessed those documents as authentic."
- Documents found among the debris of the Iraqi intelligence center show that Baghdad funded the Allied Democratic Forces, which is a Ugandan terror group led by an Islamist cleric linked to bin Laden.
- A Paris-based center-left daily newspaper, Le Monde, reported on July 9th, 2005, that Ansar al-Islam "was founded in 2001 with the joint help of Saddam Hussein - who intended to use it against moderate Kurds - and al Qaeda, which hoped to find in Kurdistan a new location that would receive its members."
- An Associated Press reporter, Ravi Nessam, noted that satellite photos of "Salman Pak, about 15 miles southeast of Baghdad.... show an urban assault training site, a three-car train for railway-attack instructions, and a commercial airliner sitting all by itself in the middle of the desert."
- Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, used a phony Iraqi passport to enter the United States
- Abdul Rahman Yasin was the only member of the al Qaeda cell that attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 to remain at large during the Clinton Presidency. He fled to Iraq. US Forces discovered documents in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, that show that Iraq gave Yasin both a house and a monthly salary.
- 1998, Abbas al-Janabi, who was a longtime aide to Saddam's son Uday, defected from Iraq. At the time, he repeatedly told reporters that there was a direct connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.
If you would like a complete list of connections, which is 17 pages long, check out the new book by Richard Miniter, "Disinformation : 22 Media Myths that Undermine the War on Terror". A FANTASTIC read, full of eye-opening information!