Iraqis Publish More Proof Of Saddam Links To Al-Qaeda Leade

[Faceman]

The Iraqi newspaper Kurdistani Nwe published a letter today on the front page from Saddam Hussein requesting a meeting with Al-Qaeda second in command Ayman Al-Zawahiri.

MEMRI reported on this letter from 2002:

The Kurdish daily Kurdistani Nwe has published a 2002 letter from the Iraqi presidency that it says proves that there was cooperation between the regime of Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda.

The letter, which appeared on the paper's front page, was published by the intelligence apparatus of the Iraqi presidency and discussed an intention to meet with Ayman Al-Zawahiri in order to examine a plan drawn up by the Iraqi presidency to carry out a "revenge operation" in Saudi Arabia.

A letter published in the Kurdish news shows that Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein (right) reached out to Al-Qaeda's number two man Ayman Al-Zawahiri (left). Saddam wanted a meeting to discuss a revenge operation he was planning in Saudi Arabia.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/ ... links.html (http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/06/iraqis-publish-more-proof-that-links.html)

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[PrivateParts]

I blame global warming for this.
TERRORIST GLOBAL WARMING.

[Cheeto]

Didn't BinLaden have a fatwah out on Saddam? And didn't Saddam have standing orders to shoot any Al Qaeda operatives on sight?

[Fenris Wolf]

Someone's gonna blame Israel for this.

[PrivateParts]

Didn't BinLaden have a fatwah out on Saddam? And didn't Saddam have standing orders to shoot any Al Qaeda operatives on sight?

Thats what they wanted you to think.

[Faceman]

Didn't BinLaden have a fatwah out on Saddam? And didn't Saddam have standing orders to shoot any Al Qaeda operatives on sight?

Not exactly.

During Desert Storm Bin Laden asks Saudi Arabia if they want his protection from Saddam with his holy army of 100k+ warriors. They laughed at him, brought in the US, Bin Laden had resentment ever since.

Supposedly there were airplanes in a field used for training exercises in Iraq. Such as for hijacking practices and such. So who knows to what extent this all leads to.

[Dr. Crawford]

well i don't care what anyone says, i still think the WMD's were moved out of the country before the invasion.

[Cheeto]

well i don't care what anyone says, i still think the WMD's were moved out of the country before the invasion.
Just don't let your opinion get to "Well I don't care what evidence anyone presents"

[Faceman]

Supposedly to Syria.

[Penguin]

well i don't care what anyone says, i still think the WMD's were moved out of the country before the invasion.
There's never been any evidence to suggest this.

Basically, what happened was that any WMDs in Iraq were incomplete or expired fragments. George Bush sold the war to Ameirca by telling us that Hussein had his WMDs cocked and locked, and was ready to start using them on us.

[Faceman]

Among other reasons but the WMDs stood out because they were major and turned up nothing concrete.

[Rob]

That is interesting, I had always heard this to be the case as well:


Didn't BinLaden have a fatwah out on Saddam? And didn't Saddam have standing orders to shoot any Al Qaeda operatives on sight?

[Miasmatic]

Hahaha, Al-Qaeda... you guys might want to watch The Power of Nightmares documentary produced by the BBC. Pretty eye-opening stuff.

[Azevedo]

Hahaha, Al-Qaeda... you guys might want to watch The Power of Nightmares documentary produced by the BBC. Pretty eye-opening stuff.

:lolwut:

[Miasmatic]

Is that some sort of subtle hint for a link? All three parts of the documentary can be found here:

http://www.freedocumentaries.com/film.php?id=135

From Wikipedia:


The films compare the rise of the American Neo-Conservative movement and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and noting strong similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is in fact a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.

[Cheeto]

Really, any belief structure can take the same form of radical Islam provided it's given enough opportunity. Imagine if Islam had been the dominant religion over the world and Christianity was the wacky bunch of people living in the Middle East. The Muslims would be talking about how to deal with radical Christians who would crush or burn their victims and hated Jews for killing their holy leader two thousand years ago, and Islam would probably have become just as lax in it's beliefs in the mainstream as Christianity has.

[WHEATLEY007]

/ quick - invade Iraq .! :D

[Bismarck]

Really, any belief structure can take the same form of radical Islam provided it's given enough opportunity. Imagine if Islam had been the dominant religion over the world and Christianity was the wacky bunch of people living in the Middle East. The Muslims would be talking about how to deal with radical Christians who would crush or burn their victims and hated Jews for killing their holy leader two thousand years ago, and Islam would probably have become just as lax in it's beliefs in the mainstream as Christianity has.

Dude, this happened. It was the Middle Ages.

Though I don't think it's quite reasonable to depict Christianity as the "dominant religion" and imply Islam's just a fringe group. Traditional Muslim peoples stretch from the far end of the Sahara to Indonesia.

[Cheeto]

Really, any belief structure can take the same form of radical Islam provided it's given enough opportunity. Imagine if Islam had been the dominant religion over the world and Christianity was the wacky bunch of people living in the Middle East. The Muslims would be talking about how to deal with radical Christians who would crush or burn their victims and hated Jews for killing their holy leader two thousand years ago, and Islam would probably have become just as lax in it's beliefs in the mainstream as Christianity has.

Dude, this happened. It was the Middle Ages.

Though I don't think it's quite reasonable to depict Christianity as the "dominant religion" and imply Islam's just a fringe group. Traditional Muslim peoples stretch from the far end of the Sahara to Indonesia.
I was talking about in a modern scenario with a frameset that is easily relatable.

And I never implied that Islam was a fringe group, however most of the leading of world affairs are taken by nations that are predominantly Christian. United States, France, Germany, UK, Australia, Canada, even Russia (to an extent). Not saying it's how it SHOULD be, just how it is at the moment.