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2004-05-27 Terror Networks

Possible Link Between the Saddam Regime and Al Qaeda

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-05-27 9:57:50 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Of course, this Iraq/Al-Qaeda link will be the lead item on Dan Rather's CBS tonight right?

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-27 11:12:12 AM|| 2004-05-27 11:12:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd settle for it being mentioned on FoxNews and bounced around the blogosphere.

Posted by eLarson 2004-05-27 12:14:04 PM|| 2004-05-27 12:14:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 it wont be on CBS based on a WSJ report attributed to anonymous sources. If the admin isnt going public with it, the networks and NYT wont go for it. WaPo might mention it, but not on the front page, for sure.

Look, when the admin is ready to make their case, let them make it. Maybe the case isnt as strong as I think it is. Maybe its an internal/external political problem - implicating Iraq in AQ also implicates others, like the Saudis, that State isnt comfortably implicating. Maybe its still a sources and methods question. Or maybe theyre still gathering pieces and dont want to release anything yet. Or maybe they have an October surprise up their sleeve. I dont know. But you can hardly blame the press for not focusing on what the admin isnt willing to support, yet.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-05-27 12:20:20 PM|| 2004-05-27 12:20:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Heh, good one, Frank!

Posted by Raj 2004-05-27 12:56:28 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-05-27 12:56:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I have always been amazed how so many "intelligent" people refuse to even consider a link between Sammy and the Islamofascists. It is obviously true because it was in his (Sammy) interest to have a link.

1. Sammy wasn't really Secular as he used Islam almost from the moment he gained power. True, the 'Baath Party' was a Pan-'Arab Unity' party and not overly based on Islam, but Islam is THE central aspect of arab lives. Sammy used it to his advantage, when it was to his advantage.

2.Sammy is a meglomaniac and believed he was the next Saladin (Salah al-Din) to unite the arab world. You think he wouldn't use Islam to do that? Sammy the Caliph.

3. Sammy understood that some actions were too provacative for him to do. Why wouldn't he create a back-channel hook-up to a Sunni jihadi group to do some 'wet work' without attribution? We know he hosted the most notorious paleo terrorist, Abu Nidal for years. One must assume that this happened because it was to Sammy benefit.

4. Even worse, Sammy had close links to the phrench, those back-stabbing cowards of the continent.

In any case, even if there were no known links, post-9/11, the USA can't risk it. As they say, Simplisme.

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-05-27 7:19:56 PM|| 2004-05-27 7:19:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 oh, LH - CBS is above using anonymous sources- ROFLMAO - at least my comment was sarcasm!

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-27 7:38:47 PM|| 2004-05-27 7:38:47 PM|| Front Page Top

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