The way I read it sounds like they had a truce between the two parties. There still is no concrete evidience that Iraq was suppoting Osama bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden and his terror network had much more obvious ties with leaders in Saudi Arabia and the Palestinians.
How did you read it? Underwater?
I think it was pretty clear in suggesting Iraq supplied training, money, and weapons in return for that “truce”.
However, I also think you are entitled to question the reliability of intelligence given all that has happened recently.
But I don’t see how it reads as anything less than cooperation.
How did you read it? Underwater?[/quote]
Now that I’m emphasizing a sweeter, more temperate Cold Front, I’m taking a vicarious thrill in reading imyourbiggestfan’s posts.
if this is such damning evidence of 911 to al qaida to terrorism links to iraq to saddam supplied by a top government intelligence report,
why didn’t we hear this at the get-go. now maybe if this report is ‘true’ and ‘unbiased’ and there is other similar ‘evidence’ suggesting that bush was not wrong in going after iraq as part of his post-911-related stance, then i am open to the idea that bush & co. just merely shot their own foot in persuading the world of his righteous attack and not just engaging in a wagging the dog-type campaign.
That sort of lets the cat out of the bag, eh? A nicely “leaked” memo that just happens to make it all right after the fact that no other agency or speciality gave a grain of salt worth of weight to the argument.
Please… 
Something is certainly rotten in Denmark, or Bushville at least. Should we trust it, given the dubious nature of some of the “hard” intelligence evidence?
If true, it is indeed a big story, and we must ask why it has only been released now, and why it’s not doing the media rounds.
Being in the print journalism business, you get a sense of the weight of a story and its veracity. I saw this on a Web site and almost laughed. It certainly has all the aspects of a single source or a manipulated spin piece.
http://www.dod.mil/releases/2003/nr20031115-0642.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46460-2003Nov15.html
“I’m not reading this. This is bullshit.”
S.O.S. Colin Powell as he threw several pages of raw intelligence masquerading as confirmed information into the air last winter.
We call this sort of thing “The lost car keys of Atlantis.”
Think about it.
Yet more intrigue!
[quote=“tigerman”]http://slate.msn.com/id/2091354/
Yet more intrigue![/quote]
But surely not as plausible as this:
Notice how the liberals get all of their silly ideas from silly comics
Churchill.
Homer Simpson
Homer Simpson[/quote]
Alert! Alert! Anti-Bush sentiment detected! Move to more appropriate thread.
This just in:
Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by Saddam
[quote]Details of Atta’s visit to the Iraqi capital in the summer of 2001, just weeks before he launched the most devastating terrorist attack in US history, are contained in a top secret memo written to Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, the former head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained exclusively by the Telegraph, is dated July 1, 2001 and provides a short resume of a three-day “work programme” Atta had undertaken at Abu Nidal’s base in Baghdad.[/quote]
According to documents supposedly found at Quasay Hussein’ s house and other files retrieved from Baghdad’s bombed-out foreign ministry, the pro-Arab Left-wing Scottish MP George Galloway received money from the Iraqi regime as payment for his support. telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh … gall22.xml
Later, these documents turned out to be forgeries. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,982170,00.html
[quote=“Spack”]According to documents supposedly found at Quasay Hussein’ s house and other files retrieved from Baghdad’s bombed-out foreign ministry, the pro-Arab Left-wing Scottish MP George Galloway received money from the Iraqi regime as payment for his support. telegraph.co.UK/news/main.jh … gall22.xml
Later, these documents turned out to be forgeries. http://politics.guardian.co.UK/Iraq/story/0,12956,982170,00.html[/quote]
Whoa, not so fast.
I was in Iraq on day alleged in memos, admits Galloway
[quote]George Galloway confirmed for the first time yesterday that he was in Iraq on the day that documents found by The Telegraph allege he met an Iraqi intelligence officer there to discuss “continuous financial support”.
The suspended Labour MP also admitted that he was “not yet” in a position to disprove the documents, which he claimed were forgeries and which were discovered in the looted foreign ministry in Baghdad.[/quote]
“Not yet in a position to disprove the documents?” Hmmm…what does that mean? Yes, the Christian Science Monitor admitted that the documents it found were forgeries, but the ones the Telegraph found are considered by many to be very convincing. It’ll be interesting to see how this turns out.
What, no link between Saddam and Bin Laden???
Not so fast lefties. This things not over yet.
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