Re: What Is Jonnie's problem here?

Sorry for the second post, but adding another link.

Rat & Swan wrote:
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> No one says that the 9/11 attack (which had no connection
> whatever to Iraq)...

I forgot to mention the Feith memo. The Defense Department has publicly 
said it does not confirm the following. I wouldn't expect DoD to confirm 
or deny it. That's their *duty* when it comes to intel, especially from 
subsequently leaked memos prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee.

        OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational
        relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training
        in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical
        support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training camps and safe
        haven in Iraq, and Iraqi financial support for al Qaeda--perhaps
        even for Mohamed Atta--according to a top secret U.S. government
        memorandum obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

        The memo, dated October 27, 2003, was sent from Undersecretary
        of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith to Senators Pat Roberts
        and Jay Rockefeller, the chairman and vice chairman of the
        Senate Intelligence Committee. It was written in response to a
        request from the committee as part of its investigation into
        prewar intelligence claims made by the administration.
        Intelligence reporting included in the 16-page memo comes from a
        variety of domestic and foreign agencies, including the FBI, the
        Defense Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency,
        and the National Security Agency. Much of the evidence is
        detailed, conclusive, and corroborated by multiple sources. Some
        of it is new information obtained in custodial interviews with
        high-level al Qaeda terrorists and Iraqi officials, and some of
        it is more than a decade old. The picture that emerges is one of
        a history of collaboration between two of America's most
        determined and dangerous enemies.

If my previous reference to Laurie Mylroie raised any eyebrows, consider 
the following paragraph before dismissing her theory that Iraq was 
involved in the 1993 bombing of the WTC:
	[Ahmed Hikmat] Shakir [who handled the customs procsses of two
	of the 9/11  hijackers, Khalid al Midhar and Nawaq al Hamzi,
	through Kuala Lumpur] got his airport job through a contact at
	the Iraqi Embassy. (Iraq routinely used its embassies as staging
	grounds for its intelligence operations; in some cases, more
	than half of the alleged "diplomats" were intelligence
	operatives.) The Iraqi embassy, not his employer, controlled
	Shakir's schedule. He was detained in Qatar on September 17,
	2001. Authorities found in his possession contact information
	for terrorists involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing,
	the 1998 embassy bombings, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, and
	the September 11 hijackings. The CIA had previous reporting that
	Shakir had received a phone call from the safe house where the
	1993 World Trade Center attacks had been plotted.

Let me reiterate the above information. Shakir is a *known* Iraqi agent; 
he was living in Malaysia. By his own admission, he got a job in Kuala 
Lumpur airport customs through a contact at the Iraqi embassy. He 
handled customs processing for two of the 9/11 al-Qaeda hijackers. He 
had contact information for indiviuals believed involved in at least 
three other attacks -- almost all of which al-Qaeda has claimed 
responsibility -- on US assets. Shakir was arrested in Qatar, not 
Malaysia, following 9/11. Maybe he's just an Iraqi national working in 
Malaysian customs whose "friends" all appear to be working for a global 
terrorist organization and who needed a break from Malaysian life 
following the most horrific acts of terror ever orchestrated. Maybe 
Mylroie is right about Iraq's connections with al-Qaeda.

Rest of the Weekly Standard article with many memo excerpts, including 
some with specific relevance to 9/11 (including information *not* in 
dispute about Mohammad Atta's meetings with IIS officials in Prague) and 
events following:
http://tinyurl.com/v2r5