9/11 Panel Says Iraq Rebuffed Bin Laden

[TLDHOME99]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=1&u=/ap/20040616/ap_on_re_us/sept_11_commission

WASHINGTON - The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks reported Wednesday that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) met with a top Iraqi official in 1994 but found "no credible evidence" of a link between Iraq (news - web sites) and al-Qaida in attacks against the United States.

In a report based on research and interviews by the commission staff, the panel said that bin Laden explored possible cooperation with Saddam even though he opposed the Iraqi leader's secular regime.

A senior Iraqi intelligence official reportedly met with bin Laden in 1994 in Sudan, the panel found, and bin Laden "is said to have requested space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons, but Iraq apparently never responded."

"There have been reports that contacts between Iraq and al-Qaida also occurred after bin Laden had returned to Afghanistan (news - web sites), but they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship," the report said. "Two senior Bin Laden associates have adamantly denied that any ties existed between al-Qaida and Iraq."

[ithacan]

1. Cheney needs a new memory chip implanted...

Is he continuing to lie just to keep the faithful deluded about this?

[Cocoa]

2. are they calling Dick Cheney a liar?

he's STILL telling the big lie, as recently as Monday.

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/06/15/a3.nat.cheney.0615.html

[Just Me]

15. I'd say that Cheney is PROVING himself to be a liar. *eom*

[Tellurian]

19. So, Cheney is torpedoing Bush's chances for election?

I wonder if Bush realizes what his partner is doing to him?

[phillybri]

3. But Crashcart said otherwise!!!

Lying piece of shit!!!

[MallRat]

4. Should I read anything into the fact that...

...this finding comes out less than 48 hours after Cheney ONCE AGAIN insisted that there was a link?

If the Commission wanted to spare the Administration the embarrassment, they could've buried it in the final report. I find it interesting that they chose not to wait.

Methinks this is the 9/11 panel laying the smackdown on the Bushies. Perhaps it's payback for those stupid games Cheney and * were playing with the Commission over the parameters of their testimony?

-MR

[TLDHOME99]

6. 9/11 smack-down! I love it

Yeah, I think the 9/11 Commission has had it with this administration. I am so looking forward to the debates -- hopefully with Clark debating Cheney.

So cool when the media finally gets something right.



:toast:

[spinbaby]

5. But, but....

...but they believe it's true. Doesn't that make it true?

[Tellurian]

18. kick~

[AussieInCA]

7. but chimpy said eyeraq is the front on the war on terra...

and uncle dickie said they dem eyeraqis are like frat brothers with OBL.

my head hurts! LOL

[mia]

8. 9/11 Panel: Al Qaeda to Keep Trying to Attack U.S.

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By Deborah Charles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda has changed drastically since the Sept. 11 attacks but it will keep trying to strike in the United States to inflict mass casualties, the panel investigating the 2001 hijackings said on Wednesday.

In a report entitled "Overview of the Enemy," the commission gave a detailed history of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, blamed for the Sept. 11 hijacked aircraft attacks that killed about 3,000 people.

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The report said al Qaeda's network of training camps in Afghanistan prior to the Sept. 11 attacks offered "quite good" training. Up to 20,000 men trained in bin Laden-supported camps in Afghanistan between May 1996 and Sept. 11, 2001, it said.

The CIA estimates al Qaeda spent $30 million a year before Sept. 11 for terror operations, to run the training camps and contribute to Afghanistan's Taliban militia.

The report said it had no evidence that any government financially supported al Qaeda before Sept. 11, though the group found "fertile fund-raising ground" in Saudi Arabia.


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[GregW]

9. But the White House SAID HE DID (link to whitehouse.gov)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/response/disarm.html

Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including al-Qaida members. He could provide hidden weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own. It would take just one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known.

[phoebe]

16. We should insist that Saddam is tried here in the US.

Why hand him over to an unstable Iraq which is still in turmoil over the matter of their sovereignty? How can the American majority be sure that Saddam won't disappear back into the arms of the Baathists? Even the American Red Cross wants the admin. to ensure his health so that he may stand trial. If Cheney has endorsed Saddam's guilt.. why not openly try him here for all of us to see just how evil Saddam was? Why is the Bush administration so anti-Cheney, and anti-9/11 victims? Didn't we go to war to depose Saddam? Handing him back would send the wrong message to the American people. No, the Bush administration cannot be allowed to deprive us of an open trial.

[tandot]

10. BWAHAHAHA. Didn't I see an article yesterday that Cheney

AGAIN claimed that Al-Qaida had ties to Iraq.

This is just too good. More and more they expose themselves for what they are:

A bunch of incompetent liars.

Hey, lurking freepers: How are you going to spin this?

[goforit]

11. Yes .....timing is everything!!!.......Cheney is crazier than Bush!!!

[nolabels]

12. Kick for the dupes

:kick:

[dArKeR]

13. Iraq and al-Qaida 'not linked'

Washington - The commission investigating the September 11 attacks reported on Wednesday that Osama bin Laden met with a top Iraqi official in 1994 but that it found "no credible evidence" of a link between Iraq and al-Qaida in attacks against the United States.

In a report based on research and interviews by the commission staff, the panel said that bin Laden explored possible cooperation with Saddam Hussein even though he opposed the Iraqi leader's secular regime.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1543520,00.html

[lumpy]

14. Bin Laden courted support from many countries.

Didn't fly with Saddam, however. Cheney and Bush need to be accountable for their lies, brought before Congress to explain their perfidy. The bastards need to be brought to justice for the good of the world. Bushco continues to stir up destruction in every corner of the world.

[daleo]

17. Cheney spin: Saddam buffed Ossama's shoes

Then later, as they lost their shine, he re-buffed them. This can then be picked up by Fox, Washington Times, etc. as a perfectly natural interpretation of the rebuffing.