9/11 panel: New evidence links Iraq-Al-Qaida

[threetonesun]

I was referring to the Bush Administration. Thet never claimed that saddam collaborated with al qaeda on 9/11.

this article just shows that saddam's regime did have contacts with alqaeda, and did work together on 9/11

Clearly they did, look at that poll you posted above! Where do you think people got the idea that Saddam and Al-Qaida were connected? And if they think they're connected, who's not going to believe that he didn't help plan 9/11?

Whether they are or not shouldn't really matter here. The 9/11 commision should be saying Saddam != Osama, so someone find Osama now.

[rpeterclark]

John F. Lehman, a Reagan-era GOP defense official told NBC's "Meet the Press" that documents captured in Iraq "indicate that there is at least one officer of Saddam's Fedayeen, a lieutenant colonel, who was a very prominent member of al Qaida."

Uh, were those documents captured before or after we occupied Iraq? If it was before, then fine. If afterwards, then it sounds like a lucky break for the administration.

[b3n]

ah no

they knew about them

they were just confidential :shifty:

:rolleyes:

[nemo]

Clearly they did, look at that poll you posted above! Where do you think people got the idea that Saddam and Al-Qaida were connected? And if they think they're connected, who's not going to believe that he didn't help plan 9/11?

Whether they are or not shouldn't really matter here. The 9/11 commision should be saying Saddam != Osama, so someone find Osama now.

Way to be able to read! (Y) (Y)

First, I didn't post the poll.

Second, the poll asks "Do you believe that Saddam Hussein was supporting the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, which attacked the United States on September 11, 2001?"

^^^ Correct me if i'm wrong, which i'm not - but that question doesn't ask the American people if they think Saddam and Bin Ladin worked together on the 9/11 attacks. It asks if Hussein supported Al Qaeda. That's two completely different things. I can donate money to finding a cure for cancer, but that doesn't mean I developed it.

Nobody has every claimed that Hussein helped plan 9/11. Please show me who said that.

The 9/11 commision shouldn't be saying that Saddam != Osama. THe 9/11 commision is giving facts. They're telling what happened. They're releasing all the information that they have. And the information that they have is that Saddam and Bin Ladin were in contact for years before 9/11, and that some of Saddam's Regime sat in on the 9/11 attacks.

@ b3n, you're absolutely right, The bush adminsitration faked them.

Because you know the US Government, just like EVERY OTHER government in the world, releases absolutely EVERY SINGLE PEICE OF INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC. right?

[Fotix]

CIA: No Iraqi officer link in al-Qaida meeting

White House official denies commissioner's statement that tied Saddam's Fedayeen unit to al-Qaida

WASHINGTON - The CIA concluded "a long time ago" that an al-Qaida associate who met with two of the Sept. 11 hijackers in Malaysia was not an officer in Saddam Hussein's army, as alleged Sunday by a Republican member of the 9/11 commission. Commissioner John Lehman, who was Navy secretary under Ronald Reagan, said "new ... documents" indicated that "at least one officer of Saddam's Fedayeen," an elite army unit, "was a very prominent member of al-Qaida." Lehman's remarks on NBC's "Meet the Press" lent support to the Bush administration's insistence that there were strong ties between Hussein and al-Qaida.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/na...lnews-headlines

Al Qaeda Link To Iraq May Be Confusion Over Names

An allegation that a high-ranking al Qaeda member was an officer in Saddam Hussein's private militia may have resulted from confusion over Iraqi names, a senior administration official said yesterday.

Former Navy secretary John Lehman, a Republican member of the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said Sunday that documents found in Iraq "indicate that there is at least one officer of Saddam's Fedayeen, a lieutenant colonel, who was a very prominent member of al Qaeda." Although he said the identity "still has to be confirmed," Lehman introduced the information on NBC's "Meet the Press" to counter a commission staff report that said there were contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda but no "collaborative relationship."

Yesterday, the senior administration official said Lehman had probably confused two people who have similar-sounding names.

One of them is Ahmad Hikmat Shakir Azzawi, identified as an al Qaeda "fixer" in Malaysia. Officials say he served as an airport greeter for al Qaeda in January 2000 in Kuala Lumpur, at a gathering for members who were to be involved in the attacks on the USS Cole, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...-2004Jun21.html

[rpeterclark]

Ouch, so much for that supposed Saddam/al-Qaida link... gasp, maybe the 9/11 commission was right about there not bieng any ties...

[nemo]

Ouch, so much for that supposed Saddam/al-Qaida link... gasp, maybe the 9/11 commission was right about there not bieng any ties...

that's funny, cause the 9/11 commission reported that Bin Laden and Al Qaeda had contacts and ties with Saddam before 9/11. They said they didn't collaborate on the 9/11 attacks, which everyone knows.... and nobody claimed that they did collaborate on the attacks.

[b3ta]

you can find just as much evidence to link them as you can to not

that picture of saddam is just as bad as that picture with the bald eagle with its finger up

Oh dear LORD!

"indicate that there is at least one officer of Saddam's Fedayeen, a lieutenant colonel, who was a very prominent member of al Qaida."

One Officer has been found to be a member of Al-Qaeda - Let's make a scapegoat out of him as the reason for invading Iraq. Quick, hurry, hurry, hurry. {pathetic}

[nemo]

,Jun 22 2004, 20:45] One Officer has been found to be a member of Al-Qaeda - Let's make a scapegoat out of him as the reason for invading Iraq. Quick, hurry, hurry, hurry. {pathetic}

Um, where are you seeing that they are saying that HE is the reason they invaded Iraq? You don't. They just got information that showed that he might have been part of 9/11.... nobody is using him as a scapegoat......

You get mad because bush lies about connections between al qaeda and saddam's regime.... but when bush is proved right, you have a problem with that too... and then accuse bush of something else.