Re: OT- The Osama-Saddam Link Confirmed
- From: "IAmNotLisa" <IANL@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 00:46:25 -0400
Hawwww!
Did Karl "DurtyTrix" Rove LEAK this story also??
I-AN-L
"Chuck" <chuckadams05@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The Osama-Saddam Link Confirmed
> By Captain'sQuartersBlog.com
> FrontPageMagazine.com | June 20, 2005
>
> While Western press agencies continue to report years-old allegations
> of
> Qu'ran abuse from detainees as if they were new, the Exempt Media
> completely
> missed important corroboration from Iraq's new government that Saddam
> sheltered and even encouraged al-Qaeda terrorists during his reign of
> terror. CQ reader Jason Smith at Generation Why? notes this revelation
> from
> the Italian news portal AKI which confirms that Saddam's regime
> sponsored an
> Islamist conference and specifically invited AQ's #2 man and Zarqawi to
> attend:
> The number two of the al-Qaeda network, Ayman al-Zawahiri, visited Iraq
> under a false name in September 1999 to take part in the ninth Popular
> Islamic Congress, former Iraqi premier Iyad Allawi has revealed to
> pan-Arab
> daily al-Hayat. In an interview, Allawi made public information
> discovered
> by the Iraqi secret service in the archives of the Saddam Hussein
> regime,
> which sheds light on the relationship between Saddam Hussein and the
> Islamic
> terrorist network. He also said that both al-Zawahiri and Jordanian
> militant
> al-Zarqawi probably entered Iraq in the same period.
> "Al-Zawahiri was summoned by Izza Ibrahim Al-Douri - then deputy head
> of
> the council of the leadership of the revolution - to take part in the
> congress, along with some 150 other Islamic figures from 50 Muslim
> countries," Allawi said.
>
> According to Allawi, important information has been gathered regarding
> the
> presence of another key terrorist figure operating in Iraq - the
> Jordanian
> militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
>
> "The Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi entered Iraq secretly in the same
> period," Allawi affirmed, "and began to form a terrorist cell, even
> though
> the Iraqi services do not have precise information on his entry into
> the
> country," he said.
>
> Last week, King Abdullah told a Saudi newspaper that the Jordanians
> knew
> Saddam to be sheltering Zarqawi in the last years of the Ba'athist
> reign of
> terror and demanded his extradition. Saddam refused to turn Zarqawi
> over to
> the Jordanians. Abdullah had been clear on that point; the Ba'athists
> had
> not claimed they could not reach him, but that they flatly refused to
> hand
> him over.
>
> Last year, Stephen Hayes wrote about the Islamist conference in his
> book The
> Connection, which outlined a number of such ties between the Saddam
> regime
> and the AQ network, as well as other terrorists. Now that the new Iraqi
> government has possession of Saddam's old files, they have begun to
> corroborate Hayes' work. Far from being an enemy to the Islamists,
> Saddam
> reached out to the fanatics as an ally in order to covertly support
> attacks
> on Western nations, either directly or indirectly. The IIS records that
> Allawi has on Zawahiri shows that al-Douri -- currently running the
> ex-Ba'athist insurgency in Iraq -- knew who to contact in order to set
> up
> those connections.
>
> Does the Exempt Media report this? Not to my knowledge. They have
> already
> set their story line on Saddam and terrorism, and they apparently have
> no
> interest in evidence that contradicts it. The media, however, stands
> willing
> to report every captured terrorist's claims of abuse as gospel truth,
> as
> well as the Amnesty International's hyperbolic rhetoric proclaiming the
> Gitmo detention center -- which houses illegal combatants captured in
> battle -- as the equivalent of the Soviet gulag. Small wonder the
> public
> continues to lose confidence in the integrity and the objectivity of
> American media outlets.
> http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18476
>
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