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"WillieJ" |
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23 May 2007 05:04:57 AM |
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Re: Al Quada will not take over Iraq. |
The latest talking point. The latest lie. This justifies why we are
there? This justifies taking over the entire country?
By Ed Henry
CNN
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Tuesday declassified
intelligence showing in 2005 Osama bin Laden planned to use Iraq as a
base from which to launch attacks in the United States, according to
White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe.
Johndroe said the intelligence was declassified so the president could
discuss the previously secret material on Wednesday during a
commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut.
The speech will be aimed at defending a key part of the president's
war strategy -- the contention that the United States cannot withdraw
from Iraq because al Qaeda would fill the vacuum in the Middle East.
"This shows why we believe al Qaeda wants to use Iraq as a safe
haven," said Johndroe. He added the president will talk about al
Qaeda's "strong interest in using Iraq as a safe haven to plot and
plan attacks on the United States and other countries."
The decision also coincides with an ongoing push by the Democratic
majority in Congress to force an end to U.S. involvement in Iraq.
(Full story)
Bin Laden and a top lieutenant -- Abu Faraj al-Libbi -- planned to
form a terror cell in Iraq in order to launch those attacks, Johndroe
said.
Al-Libbi was a "senior al Qaeda manager" who in 2005 suggested to bin
Laden that bin Laden send Egyptian-born Hamza Rabia to Iraq to help
plan attacks on American soil, Johndroe said.
Johndroe noted that bin Laden later suggested to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
then leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, that America should be his top
priority. That was followed in the spring of 2005 with bin Laden's
ordering Rabia to brief al-Zarqawi on plans to attack the United
States, Johndroe said.
Johndroe added the intelligence indicates al-Libbi later suggested
Rabia should be sent to Iraq to carry out those operations.
But al-Libbi was captured in Pakistan and taken into CIA custody in
May 2005. After al-Libbi's capture, the CIA's former acting director,
John McLaughlin, described him as bin Laden's chief operating officer,
the No. 3 man in al Qaeda.
"Catching terrorists is sometimes like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle
without seeing the picture on the box," McLaughlin said at the time.
"This is a guy who knows the picture on the box. He knows what the big
picture is."
Al-Libbi is a Libyan who joined al Qaeda in the 1990s and fled to
Pakistan after the United States invaded Afghanistan in late 2001.
U.S. officials say al-Libbi was in contact with and directing alleged
al Qaeda members in the United Kingdom who were planning attacks there
and in the United States. He was also believed to be behind two 2005
attempts to assassinate Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf.
Rabia took over al-Libbi's position in the organization but was killed
in in the North Waziristan tribal area of Pakistan near the Afghan
border in December 2005.
Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. airstrike north of
Baghdad in June 2006.
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| User: "Tag Heuer" |
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| Title: Re: Al Qaeda will not take over Iraq. |
23 May 2007 12:16:52 PM |
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On 23 May 2007 03:04:57 -0700, WillieJ <medfordfarms@yahoo.com> wrote:
The latest talking point. The latest lie. This justifies why we are
there? This justifies taking over the entire country?
Of course not. It's propaganda plain and simple. The fact of the
matter here is that bin Laden and Al Qaeda were not in Iraq prior to
Bush's decision to attack invade and occupy the country. In fact, it
is presumed that this is what was planned all along in order to "fight
them there and not here." But what these knuckle-draggers didn't
consider was the high probablity of what is happening now with the
sectarian violence occurring in Baghdad and in many other provinces
and cities throughout the country.
And this news of OBL using Iraq as a staging point for attacks should
come NOT come as a surprise simply because that "Commander and Chimp
and The Decider and War President . . . With War On His Mind," indeed
CREATED this opportunity for this terrorist group to have such a
staging point in the region TO BEGIN WITH.
And for Bush and his gaggle of criminal miscreants to try to pass this
off to the American people at large is psychotic, and where they
believe that Americans for the most part are stupid enough to believe
it. And that is just pathetic, and a desperate effort to the extent
of "declassifying intelligence" in "winning the hearts and minds of
Americans" in order to get them to support this crazed Bush
administration occupation of a country that was attacked without 'just
cause.'
"The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between
Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda: because there was a relationship between
Iraq and al Qaeda . . ." --- George W. Bush, Whitehouse, June 18, 2004
" . . .First, just if I might correct a misperception, I don't think
we ever said -- at least I know I didn't say that there was a direct
connection between September the 11th and Saddam Hussein . . ."
--- George W. Bush, Cleveland, Ohio, March 20, 2006
" . . . What did Iraq have to do with what? . . . [Question: The
attack on the World Trade Center] . . . Nothing." --- George W. Bush,
Lying his ***** off, Washington, DC, August 21, 2006
" . . .One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the
war on terror." --- George W. Bush, CBS Evening News, September 6,
2006
By Ed Henry
CNN
Adjust font size:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Tuesday declassified
intelligence showing in 2005 Osama bin Laden planned to use Iraq as a
base from which to launch attacks in the United States, according to
White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe.
Johndroe said the intelligence was declassified so the president could
discuss the previously secret material on Wednesday during a
commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut.
The speech will be aimed at defending a key part of the president's
war strategy -- the contention that the United States cannot withdraw
from Iraq because al Qaeda would fill the vacuum in the Middle East.
"This shows why we believe al Qaeda wants to use Iraq as a safe
haven," said Johndroe. He added the president will talk about al
Qaeda's "strong interest in using Iraq as a safe haven to plot and
plan attacks on the United States and other countries."
The decision also coincides with an ongoing push by the Democratic
majority in Congress to force an end to U.S. involvement in Iraq.
(Full story)
Bin Laden and a top lieutenant -- Abu Faraj al-Libbi -- planned to
form a terror cell in Iraq in order to launch those attacks, Johndroe
said.
Al-Libbi was a "senior al Qaeda manager" who in 2005 suggested to bin
Laden that bin Laden send Egyptian-born Hamza Rabia to Iraq to help
plan attacks on American soil, Johndroe said.
Johndroe noted that bin Laden later suggested to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
then leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, that America should be his top
priority. That was followed in the spring of 2005 with bin Laden's
ordering Rabia to brief al-Zarqawi on plans to attack the United
States, Johndroe said.
Johndroe added the intelligence indicates al-Libbi later suggested
Rabia should be sent to Iraq to carry out those operations.
But al-Libbi was captured in Pakistan and taken into CIA custody in
May 2005. After al-Libbi's capture, the CIA's former acting director,
John McLaughlin, described him as bin Laden's chief operating officer,
the No. 3 man in al Qaeda.
"Catching terrorists is sometimes like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle
without seeing the picture on the box," McLaughlin said at the time.
"This is a guy who knows the picture on the box. He knows what the big
picture is."
Al-Libbi is a Libyan who joined al Qaeda in the 1990s and fled to
Pakistan after the United States invaded Afghanistan in late 2001.
U.S. officials say al-Libbi was in contact with and directing alleged
al Qaeda members in the United Kingdom who were planning attacks there
and in the United States. He was also believed to be behind two 2005
attempts to assassinate Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf.
Rabia took over al-Libbi's position in the organization but was killed
in in the North Waziristan tribal area of Pakistan near the Afghan
border in December 2005.
Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. airstrike north of
Baghdad in June 2006.
http://tagheuerblog.blogspot.com/
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