Secret intelligence memo links Saddam, bin Laden
Relationship involved training in WMD, financial support for 9-11 hijacker Atta
Posted: November 15, 2003
8:00 p.m. Eastern
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the
early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass
destruction, as well as financial and logistical support, and may have included
the bombing of the USS Cole and the Sept. 11 attacks.
That's the assessment of a 16-page top secret government memo to the Senate
Intelligence Committee, reports the Weekly Standard.
The memo, dated October 27, 2003, was sent from Undersecretary of Defense for
Policy Douglas J. Feith to Senators Pat Roberts and Jay Rockefeller, the
chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It was written
in response to a request from the committee as part of its investigation into
prewar intelligence claims made by the administration. The memo cites reports
from a variety of domestic and foreign spy agencies including the FBI, the
Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Central
Intelligence Agency. Much of the evidence is detailed, conclusive, and
corroborated by multiple sources.
According to the Weekly Standard, the memo reports Saddam's willingness to help
bin Laden plot against Americans began in 1990, shortly before the first Gulf
War, and continued through last March, the eve of the U.S.-led invasion of
Iraq. It says bin Laden sent ''emissaries to Jordan in 1990 to meet with Iraqi
government officials.'' At some unspecified point in 1991, according to a CIA
analysis, ''Iraq sought Sudan's assistance to establish links to al-Qaida.''
The primary go-between throughout these early stages was Sudanese strongman
Hassan al-Turabi, a leader of the al-Qaida-affiliated National Islamic Front.
A defector reported that ''al-Turabi was instrumental in arranging the
Iraqi-al-Qaida relationship." The defector said Iraq sought al-Qaida influence
through its connections with Afghanistan, to facilitate the transshipment of
proscribed weapons and equipment to Iraq. In return, Iraq provided al-Qaida
with training and instructors.
Another man, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim — who's described as the terror lord's
''best friend'' — was involved in planning the bombings of the U.S. embassies
in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
The Weekly Standard report says bin Laden visited Baghdad in January 1998 and
met with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz ''to establish camps in
Nasiriyah and Iraqi Kurdistan.''
The CIA believes ''fragmentary evidence points to possible Iraqi involvement''
in the bombing of the USS Cole in Oct. 2000, according to the memo.
Two members of al-Qaida were sent to Iraq following the attack on the USS Cole,
to be trained in weapons of mass destruction and to obtain information on
''poisons and gases.''
And according to the CIA, in December of 2000, the Saudi National Guard went on
alert after learning Saddam agreed to ''assist al-Qaida in attacking U.S./UK
interests in Saudi Arabia.''
The report also contains new information about alleged meetings between the
ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks Mohamed Atta and former Iraqi intelligence
chief Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al Ani.
The memo says the men met several times in the Czech Republic city of Prague
and Iraq authorized the transfer of funds to Atta.
The relationship between Saddam and bin Laden continued in the aftermath of
Sept. 11. An al-Qaida associate helped to set up ''sleeper cells" in Baghdad
beginning in October 2002. And Iraq agreed, following a ''secret deal'' last
year, to provide money and weapons to al-Qaida and to obtain Iraqi and Syrian
passports for its members.
As WorldNetDaily has often reported, compelling evidence of an Iraq-Al-Qaida
link have been widely known for years. Yossef Bodansky, who as former director
of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare has
been Congress' foremost terrorism expert, documents in his book "Bin Laden: The
Man Who Declared War on America" how Saddam has supported al-Qaida for over a
decade.
One example, widely reported before the Iraq war, concerned the Boeing 707
fuselage Saddam Hussein provided terrorists for practicing airline hijackings.
Indeed, commercial satellite photos show the fuselage at the notorious
terrorist training camp near a bend in the Tigris.
Specifically, says Iraqi defector Sabah Khalifa Alami, Iraqi intelligence
trained groups at Salman Pak on how to hijack planes without weapons. It's not
specifically known whether al-Qaida operatives trained at Salman Pak.
When confronted about the camp, Baghdad has repeatedly told U.N. inspectors
that Salman Pak was an anti-terror training camp for Iraqi special forces.
And as WorldNetDaily reported last December, CIA reports of Iraqi-al-Qaida
cooperation number nearly 100 and extend back to 1992, according to a reporter
for Vanity Fair whose sources include senior Pentagon officials.
David Rose, writing for the magazine and the United Kingdom's Evening Standard,
says he is convinced of the links between Osama bin Laden's terrorist network
and Saddam Hussein's Baghdad regime.
"My own doubts emerged more than a year ago, when a very senior CIA man told me
that, contrary to the line his own colleagues were assiduously disseminating,
there was evidence of an Iraq-al-Qaida link," Rose writes. "He confirmed a
story I had been told by members of the anti-Saddam Iraqi National Congress –
that two of the hijackers, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah, had met Mukhabarat
officers in the months before 9-11 in the United Arab Emirates. This, he said,
was a pattern of contact between Iraq and al-Qaida which went back years."
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16 Nov 2003 09:11:55 AM |
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"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:20031116080405.03493.00000368@mb-m29.aol.com...
Secret intelligence memo links Saddam, bin Laden
Relationship involved training in WMD, financial support for 9-11 hijacker
Atta
Posted: November 15, 2003
8:00 p.m. Eastern
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from
the
early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of
mass
destruction, as well as financial and logistical support, and may have
included
the bombing of the USS Cole and the Sept. 11 attacks.
That's the assessment of a 16-page top secret government memo to the
Senate
Intelligence Committee, reports the Weekly Standard.
Yes yes...American *assessments* say only what the Americans *want* them to
say!
WH
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| User: "gato2002" |
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16 Nov 2003 11:17:00 AM |
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Documents found by USA in Iraq have the same validity that the report of
UK on Iraq, WMD and the report in what Irak was buy Uranium to Congo
WH escribió:
"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:20031116080405.03493.00000368@mb-m29.aol.com...
Secret intelligence memo links Saddam, bin Laden
Relationship involved training in WMD, financial support for 9-11 hijacker
Atta
Posted: November 15, 2003
8:00 p.m. Eastern
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from
the
early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of
mass
destruction, as well as financial and logistical support, and may have
included
the bombing of the USS Cole and the Sept. 11 attacks.
That's the assessment of a 16-page top secret government memo to the
Senate
Intelligence Committee, reports the Weekly Standard.
Yes yes...American *assessments* say only what the Americans *want* them to
say!
WH
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| User: "Ex." |
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16 Nov 2003 09:26:00 PM |
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"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20031116080405.03493.00000368@mb-m29.aol.com...
Secret intelligence memo links Saddam, bin Laden
Relationship involved training in WMD, financial support for 9-11 hijacker
Atta
Posted: November 15, 2003
8:00 p.m. Eastern
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
<snip the *****>
As WorldNetDaily has often reported, compelling evidence of an
Iraq-Al-Qaida
link have been widely known for years. Yossef Bodansky, who as former
director
of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare
has
been Congress' foremost terrorism expert, documents in his book "Bin
Laden: The
Man Who Declared War on America" how Saddam has supported al-Qaida for
over a
decade.
So why the hell has Bush not given this credence before?? He's already
denied any link between the two. His whole purpose in life is to hang onto
power, so why would he attack Iraq and not offer this 'definitive' link
between 9/11 and Iraq??
Instead of 'WorldNetDaily', maybe 'FairyTaleDaily' might be more accurate.
/ex
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| User: "Leigh_Bee" |
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16 Nov 2003 04:21:30 PM |
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(TonyZ2001) wrote in message news:<20031116080405.03493.00000368@mb-m29.aol.com>...
Secret intelligence memo links Saddam, bin Laden
Relationship involved training in WMD, financial support for 9-11 hijacker Atta
Posted: November 15, 2003
8:00 p.m. Eastern
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the
early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass
destruction, as well as financial and logistical support, and may have included
the bombing of the USS Cole and the Sept. 11 attacks.
SNIP
Well if two liars tell a story it has to be a lie!
But if they were not allies before, they are now, working on the old
Arab saying: "The enemy of my enemy is therefore my friend"
Wonder if counterstrike now has a Iraq battlefront?
LB
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| User: "Mark Tyme" |
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16 Nov 2003 04:46:10 PM |
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On 16 Nov 2003 14:21:30 -0800, (Leigh_Bee)
wrote:
tonyz2001@aol.com (TonyZ2001) wrote in message news:<20031116080405.03493.00000368@mb-m29.aol.com>...
Secret intelligence memo links Saddam, bin Laden
Relationship involved training in WMD, financial support for 9-11 hijacker Atta
Posted: November 15, 2003
8:00 p.m. Eastern
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the
early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass
destruction, as well as financial and logistical support, and may have included
the bombing of the USS Cole and the Sept. 11 attacks.
SNIP
Well if two liars tell a story it has to be a lie!
But if they were not allies before, they are now, working on the old
Arab saying: "The enemy of my enemy is therefore my friend"
Wonder if counterstrike now has a Iraq battlefront?
LB
Paraphrasing:
1. Attack the enemy's strategy (i.e., go around his Maginot Line)
2. Weaken your enemy's alliances (US has few allies, save those who
ally for $)
3. Take the shock of battle into the very heart of the enemy's own
sanctuary
Sun Tsu
OBL is an avid student of Sun Tsu
Saddam and OBL are as different as night and day, and neither needs
the other.
OBL is nothing without the occupations of Palestine, Afghanistan and
Iraq.
Saddam is nothing, with the occupation of Iraq.
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| User: "Lone Ranger" |
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24 Nov 2003 05:55:30 PM |
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 14:46:10 -0800, Mark Tyme <MarkTyme@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the
early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass
destruction, as well as financial and logistical support, and may have included
the bombing of the USS Cole and the Sept. 11 attacks.
Well if two liars tell a story it has to be a lie!
But if they were not allies before, they are now, working on the old
Arab saying: "The enemy of my enemy is therefore my friend"
Wonder if counterstrike now has a Iraq battlefront?
Paraphrasing:
1. Attack the enemy's strategy (i.e., go around his Maginot Line)
2. Weaken your enemy's alliances (US has few allies, save those who
ally for $)
3. Take the shock of battle into the very heart of the enemy's own
sanctuary
Sun Tsu
OBL is an avid student of Sun Tsu
You're right. Here's an interesting analysis.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001786727_strategy09.html
The Iraqi resistance has taken a page from a sophisticated insurgency
playbook in their confrontations with the U.S.-led coalition. The
insurgents' strategy could have been crafted by Sun Tzu, the Chinese
military tactician, who more than 2,500 years ago wrote, in "The Art
of War," that the highest realization of warfare is to attack the
enemy's strategy.
--
Hi-Yo, Silver! Away!
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| User: "torque wrench" |
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16 Nov 2003 10:19:18 AM |
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How about this.
Bush family and Bin Laden family are closely linked. George W Bush was lent
millions by Bin Laden Family bank years ago for a startup business.
Billions of Saudi, Bin Laden money invested in Texas banks. George Bush Sr.
had meetings with a member of Bin Laden family on day of September 11, 2001.
Saudi aircraft were allowed to leave US during the days that all air traffic
in North America was grounded during a state of emergency.
You wont have access to that sort of information by watching CNN, ABC, CBS
or Sesame Street.
Here is an excerpt from the introduction of a new book entitled "Ignorant
Armies" by Gwynne Dyer.
["Around the world thoughtful people are asking one vital question. How
could an unspeakable terrorist act carried out by a small group of Islamic
zealots, most of them being Saudi Arabian, result in war being declared on
Iraq, a country with a brutal but firmly secular government that had no
known connection with 9/11? Is it a gross mistake, a sinister plot, or just
the strategic equivalent of a highway pileup?
Far too many politicians and journalists who should know better have
swallowed the story that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the West, that his
weapons of mass destruction are about to fall into the hands of suicidal
terrorist fanatics, and that we must invade Iraq before the Beast of Baghdad
eats us, hair and all. And too few observers have pointed out that the
weapons are not very dangerous, that Saddam has been successfully contained
for over a decade without a war, and that the emperor has no clothes."]
Lugnut
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