varrussword wrote:
Dan,
You didn't like my comparative analogy? What gives.
Oh I know you prefer the baseless claims like the following, which I was making fun of:
You don't really think that Saddam and Iraq have nothing to do with islamic terrorism do you? And seeing how Iraq was viewed by most muslims as the david to the u.s. goliath they obviously weren't a good target.
Varus
Edited, Tue Sep 14 17:59:48 2004 by varrussword
You didn't like my comparative analogy? What gives.
Oh I know you prefer the baseless claims like the following, which I was making fun of:
Quote:
As it stands, the war in Iraq has little to do with 9/11 and is creating more terrorism
You don't really think that Saddam and Iraq have nothing to do with islamic terrorism do you? And seeing how Iraq was viewed by most muslims as the david to the u.s. goliath they obviously weren't a good target.
Varus
Edited, Tue Sep 14 17:59:48 2004 by varrussword
All i can say in the matter is that I personally do not have the assests to find out the facts or not. Our government set up a commission to find out everything about 9/11 and I would assume that their findings are more valid than anyone elses. According to the September 11 report they could not find and specific evidence of immediate collaboration between Iraq and al Qaeda for the 9/11 attack. But they did find a lot more extensive ties than most critics would have you believe. On page 61 it states that "Bin Ladin himself met with senior Iraqi intelligence officer in Khartoum in late 1994 or early 1995. Bin Ladin is said to have asked for space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons." and:
In March 1998, after Bin Ladin’s public fatwa against the United States, two al Qaeda members reportedly went to Iraq to meet with Iraqi intelligence. In July, an Iraqi delegation traveled to Afghanistan to meet first with the Taliban and then with Bin Ladin. Sources reported that one, or perhaps both, of these meetings was apparently arranged through Bin Ladin’s Egyptian deputy, Zawahiri, who had ties of his own to the Iraqis. (p.66)
Similar meetings between Iraqi officials and Bin Ladin or his aides may have occurred in 1999 during a period of some reported strains with the Taliban. According to the reporting, Iraqi officials offered Bin Ladin a safe haven in Iraq. Bin Ladin declined, apparently judging that his circumstances in Afghanistan remained more favorable than the Iraqi alternative. The reports describe friendly contacts and indicate some common themes in both sides’ hatred of the United States(p.66)
And, on July 7, 2004, the Senate Intelligence Committee reported:
- That George Tenet provided the Senate Intelligence Committee this assessment in a closed session on September 17, 2002: “There is evidence that Iraq provided al Qaeda with various kinds of training--combat, bomb-making, [chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear] CBRN. Although Saddam did not endorse al Qaeda’s overall agenda and was suspicious of Islamist movements in general, he was apparently not averse, under certain circumstances, to enhancing bin Laden’s operational capabilities. As with much of the information on the overall relationship, details on training are [redacted] from sources of varying reliability.”
- That according to a CIA report called Iraqi Support for Terrorism, “the general pattern that emerges is one of al Qaeda’s enduring interest in acquiring chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) expertise from Iraq.”
- That the Iraqi regime ‘certainly’ had knowledge that Abu Musab al Zarqawi – described in Iraqi Support for Terrorism as “a senior al Qaeda terrorist planner” – was operating in Baghdad and northern Iraq.
I apologize for the long post. But I know that people would not believe me if I had just said they were connected