al-Qaeda Link?

[Batz]

Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by Saddam

By Con Coughlin
(Filed: 14/12/2003)

Iraq's coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks against the US, was trained in Baghdad by Abu Nidal, the notorious Palestinian terrorist.

Details of Atta's visit to the Iraqi capital in the summer of 2001, just weeks before he launched the most devastating terrorist attack in US history, are contained in a top secret memo written to Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, the former head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained exclusively by the Telegraph, is dated July 1, 2001 and provides a short resume of a three-day "work programme" Atta had undertaken at Abu Nidal's base in Baghdad.

In the memo, Habbush reports that Atta "displayed extraordinary effort" and demonstrated his ability to lead the team that would be "responsible for attacking the targets that we have agreed to destroy".

The second part of the memo, which is headed "Niger Shipment", contains a report about an unspecified shipment - believed to be uranium - that it says has been transported to Iraq via Libya and Syria.

Although Iraqi officials refused to disclose how and where they had obtained the document, Dr Ayad Allawi, a member of Iraq's ruling seven-man Presidential Committee, said the document was genuine.

"We are uncovering evidence all the time of Saddam's involvement with al-Qaeda," he said. "But this is the most compelling piece of evidence that we have found so far. It shows that not only did Saddam have contacts with al-Qaeda, he had contact with those responsible for the September 11 attacks."

Although Atta is believed to have been resident in Florida in the summer of 2001, he is known to have used more than a dozen aliases, and intelligence experts believe he could easily have slipped out of the US to visit Iraq.

Abu Nidal, who was responsible for the failed assassination of the Israeli ambassador to London in 1982, was based in Baghdad for more than two decades.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F12%2F14%2Fwterr14.xml

[Martlet]

Bush fooled the American public.

There is no Al Queda in Iraq.

Bush lied.


DEATH TO AMEREEKA!

SCREW U INIDELS!

[Curval]

Originally posted by Batz
The second part of the memo, which is headed "Niger Shipment", contains a report about an unspecified shipment - believed to be uranium - that it says has been transported to Iraq via Libya and Syria.

Wasn't this already reported and proved to be B/S?  Didn't Bush get alot of flak for reporting it and then blamed the CIA for bad information?

If so, what is it doing amongst this factual link about an AL Quieda connection?

[Scootter]

Patience guys,  Times they are a changing.  

I predict in the next 6 months, crow will be served.

Not to the extent some imagined but greater then many thought, the truth will be revealed.

I would hold off going on any record for a bit, as I don't know how crow is served in Iraq.

[Ripsnort]

oooh, Lance is NOT going to like this at all!

[DmdNexus]

Telegraph = National Equirer = Globe....

Very reliable source of information.

The CIA has debunked the Niger info.
The White House, NSA, CIA and GCHQ - have ALL debunked the Iraqi-Al Qaeda link.


I hope Bush likes his Crow served in STOCK PILES!

[Dowding]

I'd say the Telegraph is a lot more reliable than the National Enquirer. Still has a strong Tory bias though.

The uranium theory was thrown out as a forgery.

[AKIron]

Originally posted by Dowding
I'd say the Telegraph is a lot more reliable than the National Enquirer. Still has a strong Tory bias though.

The uranium theory was thrown out as a forgery.

I'm not saying the uranium report was true but there is a possibility that it was true but for lack of evidence documentation was fabricated.

[Batz]

No it wasnt proven false, however it wasnt proven true either. There wasnt enough evidence to make a conclusion 1 way or the other.

I dont have time to do a search but i am sdure you can find the facts.

[Pongo]

One memo that places the 9/11 terrorrists in Iraq and validates the nigerian WMD ploy.  
Does it say anything about the grassy knoll?
Does it say who Deep throat is?

Grow up guys..jeez.

[AKIron]

Originally posted by Pongo
One memo that places the 9/11 terrorrists in Iraq and validates the nigerian WMD ploy.  
Does it say anything about the grassy knoll?
Does it say who Deep throat is?

Grow up guys..jeez.

The repeated terrorist attacks against the US over a decade resulting in thousands dead is no conspiracy theory.

[JBA]

Stick a fork in them. I think the 9 dwarfs running for Dem. primeries are done.

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by AKIron
The repeated terrorist attacks against the US over a decade resulting in thousands dead is no conspiracy theory.

...and has nothing to do with the validity of this article.



"The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained exclusively by the Telegraph,"

A copy of a handwritten memo...ooohhh.  Please, I could just as easily write one.


"Although Iraqi officials refused to disclose how and where they had obtained the document, Dr Ayad Allawi, a member of Iraq's ruling seven-man Presidential Committee, said the document was genuine."

Cripes, well if Dr. Allawi gives says it genuine.  

Damn but this is pretty desparate.

[Lance]

:::chuckles:::  Why would you think I don't like this, Rip?  If/when this memo is verified by multiple sources and endorsed by the U.S. and British government/intelligence services, then I'll give it some serious consideration.  Until then, it reeks of being just another example of a right-leaning "media outlet" jumping on a propaganda piece.  You know, like all that evidence of WMD (mobile WMD labs, chemical warhead artillery shells, etc...) that was reported as found by similar news purveyors -- all of which turned out to be BS.

[mora]

Just a while ago it was said that Atta wasn't the mastermind of 9/11.