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| Iraq |
| What’s all that smoke? |
| 2003-11-14 |
| Oh it’s from the gun... OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training camps and safe haven in Iraq, and Iraqi financial support for al Qaeda--perhaps even for Mohamed Atta--according to a top secret U.S. government memorandum obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD. |
| Posted by:Rawsnacks |
| #9 I've got the whole damned thing saved and am going to post it as soon as the clock strikes midnight here at Rantburg so that we can all have fun with this tomorrow. |
| Posted by: Dan Darling 2003-11-14 11:37:44 PM |
| #8 Farked and Slashdotted or the slashdot effect. It is when a very popular blog or site links to a article. Suddenly everyone is accessing the article and the server gets overwhelmed. I think the slashdot effect predates farked. At least I know sites were getting slashdotted in the late 90's. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-11-14 11:30:47 PM |
| #7 That's also what "slashdot effect" means. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-11-14 11:22:09 PM |
| #6 They've been farked*,RC. I got this message, "HTTP Error 500-13 - Server too busy." Everybody in the government may be trying to read this article. You should try again later. * for the uninitiated, it's a term used at http://www.fark.com/ to indicate over activity at a server caused by its readers. |
| Posted by: Gasse Katze 2003-11-14 11:09:36 PM |
| #5 Weekly Standard site is now unreachable. Slashdot effect or DoS? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-11-14 10:34:14 PM |
| #4 Super Hose -- personally, I think this memo should have been released by the administration. They're facing a public that's loosing its nerve to press the fight, thanks to the Democrats, their allies in the press, and the curious leaking of documents that always contradict the administration. That this one gets out means that either the administration is engaging in the war of leaks, or that its allies have decided to do so. Check out some of the timing information, too. The Senate Intelligence Committee got the memo on October 27; less than two weeks later Senator Levin was going before the press and claiming he had never seen any evidence of connections between Iraq and al'Qaeda. He was lying. Of course, I think this memo will disappear down the press' memory hole, like the Hannity memo. It would be too risky for the press to ask Democrats tough questions about what they knew, when they knew it, and why they lied about it afterwards. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-11-14 9:40:36 PM |
| #3 Where the hell do they think AQ got the nerve gas to kill that doggie with? |
| Posted by: PETA 2003-11-14 8:55:57 PM |
| #2 Oh Great, another leaked Memo! LOL! I mean come on Democrats. You must've seen this coming from a mile away. Oh No, don't tell you blew all your money on the Saddam Hussein 1,000,000,000 to 1 long shot. |
| Posted by: Daniel King 2003-11-14 8:41:26 PM |
| #1 If I obtained a Top Secret memo, I would turn it in to the FBI with an explanation of how I obtained it. That's just me. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-14 8:36:27 PM |