[CLUE-Talk] More Evidence for a Hussein - AlQaeda Link

[Jed S. Baer]

Well, here's an interesting article:
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/42706.htm

<quote>
Their deadly collaboration - which may have included the bombing of the
USS Cole and the 9/11 attacks - is revealed in a 16-page memo to the
Senate Intelligence Committee that cites reports from a variety of
domestic and foreign spy agencies compiled by multiple sources, The Weekly
Standard reports.

Saddam's willingness to help bin Laden plot against Americans began in
1990, shortly before the first Gulf War, and continued through last March,
the eve of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, says the Oct. 27 memo sent by
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith.

Two men were involved with the collaboration almost from its start.

Mamdouh Mahmud Salim - who's described as the terror lord's "best friend"
- was involved in planning the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania in 1998.

Another terrorist, Hassan al-Turabi, was said by an Iraqi defector to be
"instrumental" in the relationship.

Iraq "sought al Qaeda influence through its connections with Afghanistan,
to facilitate the transshipment of proscribed weapons and equipment to
Iraq. In return, Iraq provided al Qaeda with training and instructors," a
top-level Iraqi defector has told U.S. intelligence.
</quote>

As we say in blogland, read the whole thing.

Later,
jed
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