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Courtesy of Powerline, it appears the media jumped the gun and skipped the details, regarding the Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda link. Not surprising, since it fits into MSM's anti-war agenda.
He quotes The Weekly Standard's Steve Hayes:
For the rest of us, for whom details are important, there's a lot more information at the Powerline link above.
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Saddam & al Qaeda, details, schmetails......
Courtesy of Powerline, it appears the media jumped the gun and skipped the details, regarding the Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda link. Not surprising, since it fits into MSM's anti-war agenda.
He quotes The Weekly Standard's Steve Hayes:
A new Pentagon report on Iraq and Terrorism has the news media buzzing. An item on the New York Times blog snarks, "Oh, By the Way, There Was No Al Qaeda Link." The ABC News story that previews the full report concludes, "Report Shows No Link Between Saddam and al Qaeda."
How, then, to explain this sentence about Iraq and al Qaeda from the report's abstract: "At times, these organizations would work together in pursuit of shared goals but still maintain their autonomy and independence because of innate caution and mutual distrust"? And how to explain the "considerable overlap" between their activities which led not only to the appearances of ties but to a "de facto link between the organizations"? (See the entire abstract below.)
And what about this revelation from page 34? "Captured documents reveal that the regime was willing to co-opt or support organizations it knew to be part of al Qaeda -- as long as that organization's near-term goals supported Saddam's long-term vision." (The example given in the report is the Army of Muhammad in Bahrain, a group the Iraqi Intelligence Service describes as "under the wings of bin Laden.")
And there is this line from page 42: "Saddam supported groups that either associated directly with al Qaeda (such as the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, led at one time by bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri) or that generally shared al Qaeda's stated goals and objectives."
Really? Saddam Hussein "supported" a group that merged with al Qaeda in the late 1990s, run by al Qaeda's #2, and the New York Times thinks this is not a link between Iraq and al Qaeda? How does that work?
Anyone interested in the "strong evidence that links the regime of Saddam Hussein to regional and global terrorism" -- that language comes from this report, too -- should read the entire thing for themselves, here.
For the rest of us, for whom details are important, there's a lot more information at the Powerline link above.
- Who Was Wahhab?
Interesting item from the March 26, 2008 edition of the Washington Post: Media reports on the Pentagon's five-volume translation of truckloads of Saddam Hussein- era documents tended to skim the surface, picking the highlights and the obvious, such...
- Not Only That, The President You See On Tv? His Real Name Is Sheldon Greenburg From Rockville Centre
It Wasn't Saddam But His Double Who Was ExecutedFrom the inimitable MEMRI A new conspiracy theory has gained currency in Egypt in recent weeks, according to which it was not Saddam Hussein, but rather his double who...
- Saddam Pisses His Pants
Now that Saddam has had a bit of time in his cell thinking over the reality that he will be executed his behavior has been a bit different. Funny that the media isn't reporting on it (from USS Neverdock): The media did not report his behavior since...
- Msm Covers Saddam Documents
Yes, never say they aren't reporting on the things being uncovered as the Saddam documents trove is being translated: BAGHDAD, Iraq - Exasperated, besieged by global pressure, Saddam Hussein and top aides searched for ways in the 1990s to prove to...
- How Did This Get Missed?
As I talk to people, I still hear that same tired line...There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and Bush lied, and blah blah blah. And now we have more evidence that Iraq was a threat. The Secret Tapes -- Inside Saddam's Palace ABC News...