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S. O. Damocles wrote:
mange@merde.com wrote:
1) They weren't innocent.
Says satan-spawn Poxie!
2) Iraq didn't do it.
No, they just sheltered and trained some of the people who did.
3) The U$$A deserved 9/11
You deserve the most painful and horrific existence that can be imagined.
You are a selfish greedy heartless Capitalist pig.
And you're dumber than a bucket of dirt, aren't you?
Scum-Lilith, you couldn't evolve to anything as sentient as "dirt".
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Serious Sam wrote:
S. O. Damocles wrote:
Says satan-spawn Poxie!
No, they just sheltered and trained some of the people who
did.
You lie again, #@($eater. They were sheltered and trained in Florida
under Jeb Bu$h.
You deserve the most painful and horrific existence that
can be imagined.
And you and your ilk, deserve, and will receive, more 9/11
style paybacks.
You are a selfish greedy heartless Capitalist pig.
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S. O. Damocles wrote:
Serious Sam wrote:
You lie again, #@($eater.
Nope.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/033jgqyi.asp?pg=2
* Iraqi defectors had been saying for years that Saddam's regime trained
"non-Iraqi Arab terrorists" at a camp in Salman Pak, south of Baghdad.
U.N. inspectors had confirmed the camp's existence, including the
presence of a Boeing 707. Defectors say the plane was used to train
hijackers; the Iraqi regime said it was used in counterterrorism
training. Sabah Khodada, a captain in the Iraqi Army, worked at Salman
Pak. In October 2001, he told PBS's "Frontline" about what went on
there. "Training is majorly on terrorism. They would be trained on
assassinations, kidnapping, hijacking of airplanes, hijacking of buses,
public buses, hijacking of trains and all other kinds of operations
related to terrorism. . . . All this training is directly toward
attacking American targets, and American interests."
But the Bush administration said little about Salman Pak as it
demonstrated links between Iraq and al Qaeda. According to
administration sources, some detainees who provided credible evidence of
other links between Iraq and al Qaeda, including training in terrorism
and WMD, insist they have no knowledge of Salman Pak. Khodada, the Iraqi
army captain, also professed ignorance of whether the trainees were
members of al Qaeda. "Nobody came and told us, 'This is al Qaeda
people,'" he explained, "but I know there were some Saudis, there were
some Afghanis. There were some other people from other countries getting
trained."
* On February 13, 2003, the government of the Philippines asked Hisham
al Hussein, the second secretary of the Iraqi embassy in Manila, to
leave the country. According to telephone records obtained by Philippine
intelligence, Hussein had been in frequent contact with two leaders of
Abu Sayyaf, an al Qaeda affiliate in South Asia, immediately before and
immediately after they detonated a bomb in Zamboanga City. That attack
killed two Filipinos and an American Special Forces soldier and injured
several others. Hussein left the Philippines for Iraq after he was
"PNG'd"--declared persona non grata--by the Philippine government and
has not been heard from since.
According to a report in the Christian Science Monitor, an Abu Sayyaf
leader who planned the attack bragged on television a month after the
bombing that Iraq had contacted him about conducting joint operations.
Philippine intelligence officials were initially skeptical of his
boasting, but after finding the telephone records they believed him.
* No fewer than five high-ranking Czech officials have publicly
confirmed that Mohammed Atta, the lead September 11 hijacker, met with
Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim al-Ani, an Iraqi intelligence officer working at
the Iraqi embassy, in Prague five months before the hijacking. Media
leaks here and in the Czech Republic have called into question whether
Atta was in Prague on the key dates--between April 4 and April 11, 2001.
And several high-ranking administration officials are "agnostic" as to
whether the meeting took place. Still, the public position of the Czech
government to this day is that it did.
That assertion should be seen in the context of Atta's curious stop-off
in Prague the previous spring, as he traveled to the United States. Atta
flew to Prague from Germany on May 30, 2000, but did not have a valid
visa and was denied entry. He returned to Germany, obtained the proper
paperwork, and took a bus back to Prague. One day later, he left for the
United States.
3) The U$$A deserved 9/11
You deserve the most painful and horrific existence that
can be imagined.
And you and your ilk, deserve, and will receive, more 9/11
style paybacks.
Keep it up GPS whore, you're on *all* the terror databases now!
You'd better be planning a real swift getaway, your free days are
numbered traitor.
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erious Sam wrote:
S. O. Damocles wrote:
Nope.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/033jgqyi.asp?pg=2
* Iraqi defectors had been saying for years
Bwahahahhahaha!
The Convicted Criminal Ahmed Chalabi and his murderous thugs ?
Bwhahahahaaaaaaa! Sucker, over 1000 U$ stooges slaughtered for his
lies. Bwahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!
Ahmed Chalabi and the "liberation" of Iraq
By Rick Kelly
30 April 2004
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With its lies about weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaeda connections fully
exposed, the White House is now arguing that its criminal war on Iraq is being
waged to bring liberation and democracy to the Iraqi people. "America's
objective in Iraq is limited and it is firm," declared President Bush at a
recent press conference. "We seek an independent, free and secure Iraq."
The fraudulent nature of this "independence" and "freedom" is embodied in the
figure of Ahmed Chalabi, one of the nine rotating presidents on the so-called
Iraqi Governing Council. While Chalabi is routinely presented in the US media as
a legitimate representative and spokesman for the Iraqi people, he is a
well-known US stooge and a convicted criminal.
Inside Iraq, as well as throughout the Arab world, Chalabi is regarded as a
cynical careerist, wholly subservient to US interests. His position is so
compromised in the region that even the US Central Intelligence Agency and State
Department have come to regard him as a liability.
That the White House has actively promoted Chalabi further underscores the
neo-colonialist nature of the US-led occupation of Iraq.
Privilege and corruption
Ahmed Chalabi was born in 1945 into one of the wealthiest and best connected
families in Iraq. A number of Chalabis held high-ranking government posts under
the monarchy installed by the British colonialists. Ahmed's grandfather served
in several Iraqi cabinets, while his father was president of the ceremonial
senate.
The Chalabis amassed a considerable fortune under the monarchist dictatorship.
Ahmed enjoyed a privileged upbringing, and was educated by American Jesuits at
Baghdad College. The 1958 coup that saw the overthrow of the monarchy threw the
Chalabi family into turmoil. They quickly fled Iraq and went into exile, living
at different times in England, Jordan and the United States.
Ahmed resumed his education abroad, going on to study mathematics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1969 he received a doctorate from the
University of Chicago and then took up an academic post in the American
University of Beirut.
This job was nothing but a temporary arrangement. From an early age, Chalabi had
been groomed for a life of power and wealth. His burning ambition for a
successful career in politics and business precluded a life in academia.
While in Lebanon, Chalabi developed his connections in the Middle East. In 1972
he married the daughter of the speaker of the Lebanese parliament. He also made
full use of his family's monarchical contacts. The Chalabi family maintained
their ties with the Jordanian Hashemite monarchy after the coup in Iraq, and in
1977 Crown Prince Hassan invited Ahmed to establish a bank in Jordan.
Chalabi's Petra became the second largest commercial bank in the country. The
rotten foundation underlying its growth was only uncovered in the aftermath of a
severe financial and currency crisis that gripped Jordan in the late 1980s. As
the Jordanian dinar's value plummeted, the country's central bank demanded that
financial institutions deposit 35 percent of their holdings into the central
bank's reserves. Petra was the only bank that proved unable to comply. A
subsequent audit revealed evidence of unprecedented fraud and theft.
Foreign exchange assets on the bank's books had disappeared, while millions of
dollars of depositors' money had been illegally transferred to other businesses
and financial institutions owned by the Chalabi family. This extraordinary
looting operation cost Jordan an estimated $US500 million-equivalent to
approximately 10 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
Escaping prosecution, Chalabi fled Jordan in August 1989. Three years later,
after a comprehensive investigation, he was charged on 31 counts of theft,
embezzlement and illegal currency speculation. He was sentenced, in absentia, to
22 years hard labour. Four of Chalabi's brothers were also convicted over the
affair.
After Petra's demise, the authorities in Switzerland shut down two Swiss-based
financial institutions run by the Chalabi family, amid reports of illegal
practices. Two of the brothers who had been involved in the Petra fraud, Jawad
and Hazem Chalabi, were prosecuted on charges of falsifying documents, and
received six-month suspended sentences in September 2002.
The Chalabis continue to maintain their innocence. Ahmed maintains that the
entire Petra Bank scandal was a political plot engineered by Saddam Hussein and
the king of Jordan, who supposedly feared his knowledge of secret Jordan-Iraq
arms sales.
This account is flatly rejected by a number of authoritative sources in Jordan.
Mohammad Said Al Nabulsi, the former head of the Central Bank and supervisor of
the investigation into the scandal, rejected Chalabi's claims. "We are talking
here about a half a billion dollars lost. This is not political. It is a totally
economic crime."
Manoeuvres with US imperialism
The disastrous end to Chalabi's banking career coincided with the deepening
crisis in the Gulf. In the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam Hussein's
regime, though severely weakened, remained in power. Elements within the US
political establishment were angered by the decision of President George Bush
senior not to launch a full-scale invasion of Iraq.
Chalabi recognised that a propitious opening existed for a pro-American
"democratic" Iraqi opposition figurehead, and he thrust himself forward. From
the outset of his new career as an Iraqi "oppositionist", Chalabi sought the
closest relations with the most reactionary and militaristic faction of the
American political establishment.
On a trip to the US in 1985, Chalabi had already met and befriended Richard
Perle, a leading "neo-conservative". Perle, then working in the Reagan
administration, became Chalabi's fervent supporter in Washington. By the mid
1990s, Chalabi had met with a number of powerful Republican figures, including
Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
These people immediately recognised Chalabi as a man with whom they could do
business. In return for a chance to rule his home country, he was prepared to
offer
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. O. Damocles wrote:
Serious Sam wrote:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/033jgqyi.asp?pg=2
Bwahahahhahaha!
The Convicted Criminal Ahmed Chalabi and his murderous thugs ?
Twreen't the only source now was it?
http://www.mail-archive.com/sam11@erols.com/msg00077.html
The Observer
Sunday March 16, 2003
Spain links suspect in 9/11 plot to Baghdad
David Rose
An alleged terrorist accused of helping the 11 September conspirators was
invited to a party by the Iraqi ambassador to Spain under his al-Qaeda nom
de guerre, according to documents seized by Spanish investigators.
Yusuf Galan, who was photographed being trained at a camp run by Osama bin
Laden, is now in jail, awaiting trial in Madrid. The indictment against him,
drawn up by investigating judge Baltasar Garzon, claims he was 'directly
involved with the preparation and carrying out of the attacks ... by the
suicide pilots on 11 September'.
Evidence of Galan's links with Iraqi government officials came to light only
recently, as investigators pored through more than 40,000 pages of documents
seized in raids at the homes of Galan and seven alleged co-conspirators. The
Spanish authorities have supplied copies to lawyers in America, and this
week the documents will form part of a dossier to be filed in a federal
court in Washington, claiming damages of approximately $100 billion on
behalf of more than 2,500 11 September victims.
The lawsuit lists Saddam's government in Iraq as one of its principal
defendants, claiming it provided 'material support' to the al-Qaeda
terrorists. Under US law, the victims' families do not have to prove active
direction or involvement in the details of the 9/11 conspiracy by Iraq, only
that Saddam's regime gave al-Qaeda more general assistance in the knowledge
that it was planning to attack American targets.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/salman_pak.htm
Iraq told UN inspectors that Salman Pak was an anti-terror training camp
for Iraqi special forces. However, two defectors from Iraqi intelligence
stated that they had worked for several years at the secret Iraqi
government camp, which had trained Islamic terrorists in rotations of
five or six months since 1995. Training activities including simulated
hijackings carried out in an airplane fuselage [said to be a Boeing 707]
at the camp. The camp is divided into distinct sections. On one side of
the camp young, Iraqis who were members of Fedayeen Saddam are trained
in espionage, assassination techniques and sabotage. The Islamic
militants trained on the other side of the camp, in an area separated by
a small lake, trees and barbed wire. The militants reportedly spent time
training, usually in groups of five or six, around the fuselage of the
airplane.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/866766/posts
Rush Limbaugh released high-resolution satellite imagery today, on his
website, of Iraqs Salman Park terrorist training center.
This facility, which photographs show houses a full-scale jet fuselage,
is used to train terrorists how to hijack civilian airliners, buses and
trains, as well as assassination and kidnapping
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/khodada.html
After your service in the army, you worked for a secret part of the
Iraqi government?
Some of it is not very secretive. But there's another part, which has a
lot to do with international terrorism and this kind of operation --
this is very secretive.
Maybe you could tell me what this section is called, and who runs it.
And what did it do?
It's called the Division of Special Operations. ... This whole camp
where their training is run by the Iraqi [security service]... The
government organization [that] basically possesses or have control of
the camp is the Iraqi intelligence. But different training people who
come, they are headed or sent by different people in the Iraqi government.
You say that this is a secret camp. But what was it like? Was it
something you drove by and could see on the highway? Did you need
special clearance to go there? How would you describe this place, this
location?
If you're driving on those farm roads, you could probably see the edges
of the camp, but you wouldn't realize this is a special camp. The camp
is huge. And the locations for the training are far from anybody can see
them from the outside. But even when we have visitors, even at the level
of a minister, or even higher than a minister in the Iraqi government,
they will have to drive around the camp or be driven in the camp inside
very specific type of a vehicle. They will sit on the back seat, for
example, of this vehicle and they would have ... in addition to the
shaded windows, they will have to pull down curtains and they snap those
curtains on the bottom, to make sure nobody can see anything outside
this vehicle while they're driven around.
This is even government officials [who] are not allowed to see this kind
of training?
Yes. At the very highest level, they cannot see this training.
What kind of training went on, and who was being trained?
Training is majorly on terrorism. They would be trained on
assassinations, kidnapping, hijacking of airplanes, hijacking of buses,
public buses, hijacking of trains and all other kinds of operations
related to terrorism.
The people being trained were Iraqis in one group, and non-Iraqis, or
foreign nationals, in another?
Non-Iraqis were trained separately from us. There were strict orders not
to meet with them and not to talk to them. And even when they conduct
their training, their training has to occur at times different from the
times when we conduct the Iraqis our own training.
Sabah Khodada was a captain in the Iraqi army from 1982 to 1992. He
worked at what he describes as a highly secret terrorist training camp
at Salman Pak (see Khodada's hand-drawn map of the camp), an area south
of Baghdad. In this translated interview, conducted in association with
The New York Times on Oct. 14, 2001, Khodada describes what went on at
Salman Pak, including details on training hijackers. He emigrated to the
U.S. in May 2001.[Editors Note, June 2004: A year after the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq, there has been no verification of Khodada's account of
the activities at Salman Pak. It should also be noted that he and other
defectors interviewed for this report were brought to FRONTLINE's
attention by the Iraqi Nat
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Serious Sam wrote:
S. O. Damocles wrote:
Twreen't the only source now was it?
Powell: No Connection between Saddam and 9/11
"Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, said he
had 'seen nothing that makes a direct connection between Saddam Hussein and that
awful regime and what happened on 9/11,'" the Washington Post reports.
In "Iraq: The Wrong War," Charles V. Pea, Cato's director of defense policy
studies, writes: "In the final analysis, the war against Iraq was the wrong war.
Not because the United States used preemptive military force -- preemptive
self-defense would have been justified in the face of a truly imminent threat.
Not because the United States acted without the consent of the United Nations --
no country should surrender its defense to a vote of other nations. And not
because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction -- none has been discovered and,
even if they existed, they were not a threat.
September 11 Widows Group Endorse Kerry
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 15, 2004
WASHINGTON, Sep 15 (MASNET & News Agencies) - With September 11 still haunting
the United States Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry received an
endorsement from families of the victims of the terrorist attack.
Widows of September 11 and one survivor of the strikes, angered at President
George W. Bush, on Tuesday expressed support the president's challenger in the
November 2 vote, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
"We are here today to endorse Senator John Kerry for president," Kristen
Breitweiser of Middletown, N.J, whose husband died in tower two of the World
Trade Center, told reporters at Kerry's campaign headquarters in Washington.
"I voted for President Bush," in 2000, she said in the company of four other
widows and a woman who survived the attack on the Pentagon that day. "I am
scared of what could happen in the next four years."
Patty Casazza also said she voted for Bush in 2000.
"However, President Bush failed to protect my husband," she said.
The group of women said they fought Bush for an independent commission to look
into the intelligence failures that led to the attacks, charging the Bush
administration stonewalled their efforts and took the nation into a misguided
war in Iraq.
Bush first resisted the creation of the 9/11 Commission, they said, then put up
road blocks to its investigation, and now has been slow to implement its
recommendations.
Kerry supported the legislation creating the 9/11 Commission and he fully
embraces its recommendations, according to the widows.
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. O. Damocles wrote:
http://www.mail-archive.com/sam11@erols.com/msg00077.html
The Observer
Sunday March 16, 2003
Spain links suspect in 9/11 plot to Baghdad
David Rose
An alleged terrorist accused of helping the 11 September conspirators was
invited to a party by the Iraqi ambassador to Spain under his al-Qaeda nom
de guerre, according to documents seized by Spanish investigators.
Yusuf Galan, who was photographed being trained at a camp run by Osama bin
Laden, is now in jail, awaiting trial in Madrid. The indictment against him,
drawn up by investigating judge Baltasar Garzon, claims he was 'directly
involved with the preparation and carrying out of the attacks ... by the
suicide pilots on 11 September'.
Evidence of Galan's links with Iraqi government officials came to light only
recently, as investigators pored through more than 40,000 pages of documents
seized in raids at the homes of Galan and seven alleged co-conspirators. The
Spanish authorities have supplied copies to lawyers in America, and this
week the documents will form part of a dossier to be filed in a federal
court in Washington, claiming damages of approximately $100 billion on
behalf of more than 2,500 11 September victims.
The lawsuit lists Saddam's government in Iraq as one of its principal
defendants, claiming it provided 'material support' to the al-Qaeda
terrorists. Under US law, the victims' families do not have to prove active
direction or involvement in the details of the 9/11 conspiracy by Iraq, only
that Saddam's regime gave al-Qaeda more general assistance in the knowledge
that it was planning to attack American targets.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/salman_pak.htm
Iraq told UN inspectors that Salman Pak was an anti-terror training camp
for Iraqi special forces. However, two defectors from Iraqi intelligence
stated that they had worked for several years at the secret Iraqi
government camp, which had trained Islamic terrorists in rotations of
five or six months since 1995. Training activities including simulated
hijackings carried out in an airplane fuselage [said to be a Boeing 707]
at the camp. The camp is divided into distinct sections. On one side of
the camp young, Iraqis who were members of Fedayeen Saddam are trained
in espionage, assassination techniques and sabotage. The Islamic
militants trained on the other side of the camp, in an area separated by
a small lake, trees and barbed wire. The militants reportedly spent time
training, usually in groups of five or six, around the fuselage of the
airplane.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/866766/posts
Rush Limbaugh released high-resolution satellite imagery today, on his
website, of Iraqs Salman Park terrorist training center.
This facility, which photographs show houses a full-scale jet fuselage,
is used to train terrorists how to hijack civilian airliners, buses and
trains, as well as assassination and kidnapping
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/khodada.html
After your service in the army, you worked for a secret part of the
Iraqi government?
Some of it is not very secretive. But there's another part, which has a
lot to do with international terrorism and this kind of operation --
this is very secretive.
Maybe you could tell me what this section is called, and who runs it.
And what did it do?
It's called the Division of Special Operations. ... This whole camp
where their training is run by the Iraqi [security service]... The
government organization [that] basically possesses or have control of
the camp is the Iraqi intelligence. But different training people who
come, they are headed or sent by different people in the Iraqi government.
You say that this is a secret camp. But what was it like? Was it
something you drove by and could see on the highway? Did you need
special clearance to go there? How would you describe this place, this
location?
If you're driving on those farm roads, you could probably see the edges
of the camp, but you wouldn't realize this is a special camp. The camp
is huge. And the locations for the training are far from anybody can see
them from the outside. But even when we have visitors, even at the level
of a minister, or even higher than a minister in the Iraqi government,
they will have to drive around the camp or be driven in the camp inside
very specific type of a vehicle. They will sit on the back seat, for
example, of this vehicle and they would have ... in addition to the
shaded windows, they will have to pull down curtains and they snap those
curtains on the bottom, to make sure nobody can see anything outside
this vehicle while they're driven around.
This is even government officials [who] are not allowed to see this kind
of training?
Yes. At the very highest level, they cannot see this training.
What kind of training went on, and who was being trained?
Training is majorly on terrorism. They would be trained on
assassinations, kidnapping, hijacking of airplanes, hijacking of buses,
public buses, hijacking of trains and all other kinds of operations
related to terrorism.
The people being trained were Iraqis in one group, and non-Iraqis, or
foreign nationals, in another?
Non-Iraqis were trained separately from us. There were strict orders not
to meet with them and not to talk to them. And even when they conduct
their training, their training has to occur at times different from the
times when we conduct the Iraqis our own training.
Sabah Khodada was a captain in the Iraqi army from 1982 to 1992. He
worked at what he describes as a highly secret terrorist training camp
at Salman Pak (see Khodada's hand-drawn map of the camp), an area south
of Baghdad. In this translated interview, conducted in association with
The New York Times on Oct. 14, 2001, Khodada describes what went on at
Salman Pak, including details on training hijackers. He emigrated to the
U.S. in May 2001.[Editors Note, June 2004: A year after the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq, there has been no verification of Khodada's account of
the activities at Salman Pak. It should also be noted that he and other
defectors interviewed for this report were brought to FRONTLINE's
attention by the Iraqi National Congress (INC), a dissident organization
that was working to overthrow Saddam Hussein.]
So you were training Iraqis, Saddam's fedayeen, members of the militia
in Iraq. And someone else, other groups, were training the non-Iraqis?
They were special trainers or teachers from the Iraqi intelligence and
al-Mukhabarat. And those same trainers or teachers will train the
fedayeen, the Iraqi fedayeen, and also the same group of those teachers
will train the non-Iraqis, foreigners who are in the camp. Personally,
my profession is not this kind of training. My profession is to train
people on infantry, typical infantry training, such as training on
machine guns, pistols, hand grenades, rocket launchers on the shoulder
and this kind of training. The special training that I'm talking about,
such as the kidnapping and so, is conducted by those trainers who are
not from the army; they are from ... al-Mukhabarat.And there was a
person who is very famous. They call him Al-Shaba. [ph]. This is Arabic
word means "The Ghost," who was responsible for all the
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Serious Sam wrote:
No Evidence Connecting Iraq to Al Qaeda, 9/11 Panel Says
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 16, 2004; 1:32 PM
There is "no credible evidence" that Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq
collaborated with the al Qaeda terrorist network on any attacks on the United
States, according to a new staff report released this morning by the commission
investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Although Osama bin Laden briefly explored the idea of forging ties with Iraq in
the mid-1990s, the terrorist leader was hostile to Hussein's secular government,
and Iraq never responded to requests for help in providing training camps or
weapons, the panel found in the first of two reports issued today.
==== and in other news ===
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the government entity that owned
the World Trade Center, announced September 11 that it is joining the brokerage
house Cantor Fitzgerald in a $7 billion lawsuit naming the Saudi government as a
chief defendant. The bond brokerage lost 658 employees in the attacks, while 84
from the Port Authority died.
The terrorist attacks, according to the suit, could not have been accomplished
without the knowing and intentional financial support lent Al Qaeda and its
leaders by a global network of banks, financial institutions, charities, relief
organizations, businesses, individual financiers, foreign governments and
foreign governmental officials.
The court papers filed by Cantor Fitzgerald charge that the Saudi monarchy
directly and indirectly funded and controlled charity and relief organizations
that in turn financed Al Qaeda. The lawsuit further alleges that the Saudi
government knowingly employed Al Qaeda operatives, provided them with safe
houses and false documents, and assisted them in obtaining weapons and military
equipment.
This uninterrupted financial and material support and substantial assistance
enabled the Al Qaeda defendants to plan, orchestrate and carry out the Sept. 11
attacks, the lawsuit states.
The Port Authoritys announcement on the lawsuit came close on the heels of
renewed charges by Florida Senator Bob Graham that the Bush administration
orchestrated a cover-up of Saudi involvement in the September 11 attacks.
In a newly released book, Intelligence Matters, Graham asserts that evidence of
official Saudi support for at least some of the hijackers is
incontrovertible. Graham is the ranking Democrat and former chair of the
Senate intelligence committee that carried out a joint congressional
investigation into 9/11 with its counterpart in the House of Representatives.
Grahams charges focus on the extraordinary record of Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid
al-Mihdhar, who were identified as hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77,
which crashed into the Pentagon. Both men were Saudi nationals, as were 13
others of the 19 hijackers.
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