If Iraq indeed hired/instructed/asked Bin Laden to mastermind this attack:
Does Bush Jr have the guts and backing of the country/world to finish the job once and for all? If the Taliban quickly gives Osama Bin Laden over to us, how do we know it is really even Bin Laden? Couldn't they doctor up a look alike to take the fall? Do we have DNA on file to confirm? On the other hand, wouldn't Sadam quickly sacrifice him to us to divert attention away from the real root of evil here? Wouldn't Israeli gov want to point us at Palestine instead of Iraq?
Even if Sadam had nothing to do with it (which I doubt) we should drop a fat one on his arse for good measure anyway..
JERUSALEM [MENL--9/12/01] -- Iraq is believed to have recruited Saudi
billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden and his Islamic allies to carry out
the suicide attacks around the United States.
Israeli officials and intelligence analysts said the suicide hijackings
that downed the World Trade Center and destroyed parts of the Pentagon
was too large an operation for any one group. The analysts said the
operation was also too big even for a coalition of Islamic terrorists
headed by Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden is
accused of masterminding the bombings of the U.S. embassies in eastern
African in 1998.
Intelligence sources briefed the Cabinet of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
on late Tuesday, hours after the catastrophe in New York and Washington.
The sources were quoted as telling the Cabinet that a Middle East
government was probably the sponsor of the attack.
The most likely sponsor for such an attack, the sources said, is Iraq.
The Baghdad regime has long maintained an alliance with Bin Laden and
Islamic groups.
"All the steps lead to him [Bin Laden]," Reuven Paz, a leading expert on
Islamic terrorism, said. "Of all the countries, Iraq seems the most
reasonable [candidate]."
In Baghdad, Iraqi state television appeared to welcome the bombings. The
television said the spate of attacks demonstrated the vulnerability of
the United States.
"The massive explosions in the centers of power in America, notably the
Pentagon, is a painful slap in the face of U.S. politicians to stop
their illegitimate hegemony and attempts to impose custodianship on
peoples," the television said. "It was no coincidence that the World
Trade Center was destroyed in suicidal operations involving two planes
that have broken through all U.S. security barriers to carry the
operation of the century and to express rejection of the reckless U.S.
policy."
"The collapse of U.S. centers of power is a collapse of the U.S. policy,
which deviates from human values and stands by world Zionism at all
international forums to continue to slaughter the Palestinian Arab
people and implement U.S. plans to dominate the world under the cover of
what is called the new [world] order," the television added. "These are
the fruits of the new U.S. order."
The Israeli Cabinet was informed that the United States might launch a
massive attack on Iraq and Afghanistan over the coming days. The sources
said such an attack could prompt a regional war.
On early Wednesday, Afghanistan appeared to have been a target of
retaliation. Several bombings were heard in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
U.S. officials denied that their country was responsible.
In the aftermath of the suicide bombings in the United States, Israel
closed its air space. Israel also warned the Palestinian Authority to
immediately stop all attacks against the Jewish state.
