It is also being run by the New York Post:
SADDAM-OSAMA LINK
By CLEMENTE LISI
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November 15, 2003 -- Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein gave terror lord Osama
bin Laden's thugs financial and logistical support, offering al Qaeda money,
training and haven for more than a decade, it was reported yesterday.
Their deadly collaboration - which may have included the bombing of the USS
Cole and the 9/11 attacks - is revealed in a 16-page memo to the Senate
Intelligence Committee that cites reports from a variety of domestic and
foreign spy agencies compiled by multiple sources, The Weekly Standard
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, says the Oct. 27 memo sent by
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith.
Two men were involved with the collaboration almost from its start.
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.
Another terrorist, Hassan al-Turabi, was said by an Iraqi defector to be
"instrumental" in the relationship.
Iraq "sought al Qaeda influence through its connections with Afghanistan, to
facilitate the transshipment of proscribed weapons and equipment to Iraq. In
return, Iraq provided al Qaeda with training and instructors," a top-level
Iraqi defector has told U.S. intelligence.
The bombshell report says bin Laden visited Baghdad in January 1998 and met
with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz.
"The goal of the visit was to arrange for coordination between Iraq and bin
Laden and establish camps in an-Nasiriyah and Iraqi Kurdistan," the memo
says.
Though the bombing of the USS Cole on Oct. 12, 2000 was an al Qaeda job, the
secret memo says the CIA believes "fragmentary evidence points to possible
Iraqi involvement."
The relationship between Saddam and bin Laden continued to grow in the
aftermath of the Cole attack when two al Qaeda terrorists were deployed to
Iraq to be trained in weapons of mass destruction and to obtain information
on "poisons and gases."
CIA reporting shows the Saudi National Guard went on a "kingdom-wide state
of alert in late December 2000 after learning Saddam agreed to assist al
Qaeda in attacking U.S./U.K. interests in Saudi Arabia," the memo says.
And the report contains new information about alleged meetings between 9/11
mastermind Mohamed Atta and former Iraqi intelligence chief Ahmed Khalil
Ibrahim Samir al Ani in the Czech Republic.
Even some Bush administration officials have been skeptical about a
purported meeting in April 2001.
But the secret memo says Atta met two other times in Prague with al Ani, in
December 1994 and June 2000. It was during one of these meetings that al Ani
"ordered the [Iraqi Intelligence Service] finance officer to issue Atta
funds from IIS financial holdings in the Prague office," the memo says.
The memo says the relationship between Saddam and bin Laden went forward
even after 9/11.
Both sides allegedly reached a "secret deal" last year in which Iraq would
provide "money and weapons" and obtain 90 Iraqi and Syrian passports for al
Qaeda members.
Al Qaeda associate Abu Maseb al Zarqwari also helped set up "sleeper cells"
in Baghdad starting in October 2002.
The memo was sent to Sens. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Jay Rockefeller
(D-W.Va.) of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:17:09 -0500, "Simple Simon"
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DEBUNKED!!!!!!
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Hey Simp, they pulled the page, someone must have threatened to sue.
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