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RE: Today's Ugly Question
Topic: Current Events 9:15 pm EDT, Aug 10, 2005

Mike the Usurper wrote:

There was for all purposes, no Al Qaeda in Iraq.

* Abdul Rahman Yasin was the only member of the al Qaeda cell that detonated the 1993 World Trade Center bomb to remain at large in the Clinton years. He fled to Iraq. U.S. forces recently discovered a cache of documents in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, that show that Iraq gave Mr. Yasin both a house and monthly salary.

* Bin Laden met at least eight times with officers of Iraq's Special Security Organization, a secret police agency run by Saddam's son Qusay, and met with officials from Saddam's mukhabarat, its external intelligence service, according to intelligence made public by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was speaking before the United Nations Security Council on February 6, 2003.

* Sudanese intelligence officials told us that their agents had observed meetings between Iraqi intelligence agents and bin Laden starting in 1994, when bin Laden lived in Khartoum.

* Bin Laden met the director of the Iraqi mukhabarat in 1996 in Khartoum, according to Mr. Powell.

* An al Qaeda operative now held by the U.S. confessed that in the mid-1990s, bin Laden had forged an agreement with Saddam's men to cease all terrorist activities against the Iraqi dictator, Mr. Powell told the United Nations.

* In 1999 the Guardian, a British newspaper, reported that Farouk Hijazi, a senior officer in Iraq's mukhabarat, had journeyed deep into the icy mountains near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in December 1998 to meet with al Qaeda men. Mr. Hijazi is "thought to have offered bin Laden asylum in Iraq," the Guardian reported.

* In October 2000, another Iraqi intelligence operative, Salah Suleiman, was arrested near the Afghan border by Pakistani authorities, according to Jane's Foreign Report, a respected international newsletter. Jane's reported that Suleiman was shuttling between Iraqi intelligence and Ayman al Zawahiri, now al Qaeda's No. 2 man.

(Why are all of those meetings significant? The London Observer reports that FBI investigators cite a captured al Qaeda field manual in Afghanistan, which "emphasizes the value of conducting discussions about pending terrorist attacks face to face, rather than by electronic means.")

* As recently as 2001, Iraq's embassy in Pakistan was used as a "liaison" between the Iraqi dictator and al Qaeda, Mr. Powell told the United Nations.

* Spanish investigators have uncovered documents seized from Yusuf Galan -- who is charged by a Spanish court with being "directly involved with the preparation and planning" of the Sept. 11 attacks -- that show the terrorist was invited to a party at the Iraqi embassy in Madrid. The invitation used his "al Qaeda nom de guerre," London's Independent reports.

* An Iraqi defector to Turkey, known by his cover name as "Abu Mohammed," told Gwynne Roberts of the Sunday Times of London that he saw bin Laden's fighters in camps in Iraq in ... [ Read More (0.6k in body) ]

RE: Today's Ugly Question


RE: Today's Ugly Question
Topic: Current Events 4:12 pm EDT, Aug 10, 2005

Mike the Usurper wrote:
Towards the administration it comes from a huge number of sources. First, the utter failure to find the one person most responsible.

Bin Laden is living in South Waziristan in the Baluchistan Mountains of the Baluchistan region. We have known this for over a year. The decision has been made not to pursue him in that region due to a number of factors which greatly limit the possibility for a successful outcome.

Furthermore, apprehending Bin Laden would not put an end to the terrorism activities of the Al Qaeda organization. There exist a great number of compartmentalized cells, each with a specific objective motivated by a fundamental belief system. Al Qaeda is responsible for the 9/11/01 attacks in the U.S., for the 2004 downing of two commercial aircraft in Russia, for the 2004 seige of a Beslan school, for the 2005 attack in London, and for the long-term genocide of IDPs in the Sudan.

If you kick a tiger in the ass, you had better be prepared to deal with its teeth.

The public news report is here:
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/dailystar/44654.php

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