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Another Detail The 9/11 Commission Seems To Have Missed
2005-08-12
Hat tip to Captain's Quarters; EFL:
With all of these references to Germany and Hamburg, the 9/11 Commission oddly failed to include a published report from March 2001 in a Parisian Arabic newspaper, Al-Watan Al-Arabi, about the arrest of two suspected Iraqi spies -- based on a tip from the CIA (boldface mine):

Iraqi Spies Reportedly Arrested in Germany
16 March 2001

Al-Watan al-Arabi (Paris) reports that two Iraqis were arrested in Germany, charged with spying for Baghdad. The arrests came in the wake of reports that Iraq was reorganizing the external branches of its intelligence service and that it had drawn up a plan to strike at US interests around the world through a network of alliances with extremist fundamentalist parties.

The most serious report contained information that Iraq and Osama bin Ladin were working together. German authorities were surprised by the arrest of the two Iraqi agents and the discovery of Iraqi intelligence activities in several German cities. German authorities, acting on CIA recommendations, had been focused on monitoring the activities of Islamic groups linked to bin Ladin. They discovered the two Iraqi agents by chance and uncovered what they considered to be serious indications of cooperation between Iraq and bin Ladin. The matter was considered so important that a special team of CIA and FBI agents was sent to Germany to interrogate the two Iraqi spies.

But they told us there was no connection between Saddam and al-Qaeda, right?
Posted by:Steve

#4  The CLinton admin can be summed as the Dems acknowledging the Reagan-Repub economy but of course giving credit to themselves and Leftism-Socialism, justifying the latter once, before, and forever for all mankind and -isms, and ergo providing the Left's unilateral/unconditional justification for the USA to be suborned under OWG and Socialist national and World Order. Even when Bill himself admits to being POTUS by elex fraud and that the US economy was long-expanding before he even became POTUS, the DemoLefties are upholding him as the de facto standard for Washington, Politicians, and the Nation, in everything!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2005-08-12 22:37  

#3  Don't forget Putty Put's comment before the November '04 election about Al Qaeda's plan to attack the US
Posted by: Captain America   2005-08-12 22:04  

#2  Stonewalling bastards protecting Clinton, Berger, Gorelick, et al. At least we know what Sandy Burglar was trying to hide

Clintoon, Burglar, Gorelicks, burn em out Reno, Halfbright et al. That whole crew are disgusting, thru and thru, Stonewalling & Shitwalling POS, all.
Posted by: Red Dog   2005-08-12 20:58  

#1  and their spokesman today "clarified" that they were briefed about the milintel group identifying Mo Atta more than a year before 9/11, yet chose to not put that in the report. Stonewalling bastards protecting Clinton, Berger, Gorelick, et al. At least we know what Sandy Burglar was trying to hide
Posted by: Frank G   2005-08-12 17:44  

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