Newly Released Docs Change Dem 911 Commissions Members Mind on SH Threat

[rushmc 23]

Ok, a member of the 911 commission now says that OML was a threat to the US. This is from yes NEWSMAX (and I am proud to post)

Question, if enough data comes out showing the link, will kallend change his mind?

9/11 Commish Bob Kerrey: News Docs Show Saddam a Threat


A bombshell Iraqi intelligence document detailing a 1995 pact between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden to conduct "joint operations" against the U.S. proves that Saddam Hussein "would collaborate with people who would do our country harm," former 9/11 Commission member, Bob Kerrey said Friday.

"This is a very significant set of facts," Kerrey told the New York Sun.

"I personally and strongly believe you don't have to prove that Iraq was collaborating against Osama bin Laden on the September 11 attacks to prove he was an enemy [of the U.S.] and that he would collaborate with people who would do our country harm," the Nebraska Democrat explained.

While Kerrey cautioned that the 1995 pact doesn't implicate Saddam directly in the 9/11 attacks, he contended: "It does tie him into a circle that meant to damage the United States."

"Saddam was a significant enemy of the United States," Kerrey said, adding that the relationship between the Iraqi dictator and the al Qaida chief would become clearer as more materials from the former regime get translated and analyzed.

The newly released Iraqi intelligence document - first reported by the Weekly Standard last Sunday - details a February 19, 1995 meeting between an official representative of Iraq and Osama bin Laden, who is said to have requested Iraq's help with "carrying out joint operations against foreign forces" in Saudi Arabia.

At the time, the only foreign forces in Saudi Arabia were U.S. troops.

The document indicates that Saddam was thoroughly briefed on the bin Laden meeting and signed off on efforts to "invigorate" his government's relationship with the al Qaida chief.

Eight months after the meeting, in Nov. 1995, five U.S. military advisors were killed in an al Qaida attack against a Saudi national guard installation in Riyadh. Seven months after the Riyadh attack, al Qaida killed 19 U.S. airmen in the Khobar Towers barracks bombing.

Contrary to what the "joint operations" document seems to indicate, in 2004 the 9/11 Commission concluded that Saddam and bin Laden had no "collaborative, operational relationship."

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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Ok, a member of the 911 commission now says that OML was a threat to the US.

Omkalai airport was a threat to the US? OMG BOMB IT!

Owned by Remi #?

[JohnnyD 0]

Doesn't matter and I'll tell you why.
1. This is not breaking news. We have known for years - even prior to the invasion of Iraq that there was contact but not collaboration between SH and OBL.
2. This is really shitty reporting. Again, we've known of the contact for a long time. There is no "pact" and after this article says there is, it goes on to detail: nothing at all we don't already know. I'm sure people with limited reading comprehension skills will insist there is some sort of pact. The wording is obviously slanted to have the reader believe there is a lot more there than there is. I hadn't made a judgement on news max before, but this certainly sways my opinion.
3. Any magic documents that are uncovered now are irrelevent - even if they are genuine (which this is not). We needed to have these documents BEFORE we invaded. After doesn't even come close.
4. No WMDs. That is what sold the American public on this war and there are none. Anything less than WMDs is spin and damage control and they are not there and never were.
Finally, I think Americans are growing weary of hearing nothing but spin and outright bullshit about this war.

[jakee 1,594]

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I personally and strongly believe you don't have to prove that Iraq was collaborating against Osama bin Laden on the September 11 attacks to prove he was an enemy

Whut??

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[rushmc 23]

Nice try........

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln