I think Ty would calls this post Fisking, but I'm not sure if that term has some weird FB connotation or something.
[It's a blogging term that bilmore can explain. -- T.S.] [Is this the board equivalent of "ask your father when he gets home"? -- LDE] Anyway, I realize these contacts have been in the public domain for a long time now, but a couple of them are pretty entertaining in their presentation here.
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* Abdul Rahman Yasin was the only member of the al Qaeda cell that detonated the 1993 World Trade Center bomb to remain at large in the Clinton years. He fled to Iraq.
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As Clarke pointed out in his 911 Commission testimony, Yasin was the only guy from the 1993 plot who was Iraqi. At the time for various, um, diplomatic reasons it was pretty tough for us to get him extradited.
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* Bin Laden met at least eight times with officers of Iraq's Special Security Organization, a secret police agency run by Saddam's son Qusay, and met with officials from Saddam's mukhabarat, its external intelligence service, according to intelligence made public by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was speaking before the United Nations Security Council on February 6, 2003.
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Unless I'm reading the committee info wrong, these meetings establish that Saddam had a relationship with OBL the same way I had "a relationship" with any one of the many women who have refused my repeated requests for a date.
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* In 2001, an al Qaeda member "bragged that the situation in Iraq was 'good,'" according to intelligence made public by Mr. Powell.
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Ohkay.
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* Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi oversaw an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, Mr. Powell told the United Nations. His specialty was poisons. Wounded in fighting with U.S. forces, he sought medical treatment in Baghdad in May 2002.
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This generic "treatment", of course, used to be described as a leg amputation. Apparently Zarqawi is a new model of terrorist from the future who can regrow limbs, based on recent video footage of a two-legged person identified by the govt as Zarqawi.
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* Mohammad Atef, the head of al Qaeda's military wing until the U.S. killed him in Afghanistan in November 2001, told a senior al Qaeda member now in U.S. custody that the terror network needed labs outside of Afghanistan to manufacture chemical weapons, Mr. Powell said. "Where did they go, where did they look?" said the secretary. "They went to Iraq."
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Well, this one does give me pause. After all, we should be able to find chemical weapons labs in Iraq once we have a chance to focus on looking for stuff like that.
This name cracks me up for some reason. I think he must be the Iraqi version of the eeeeevil Senator Mendoza from the McBain movies.
Back on the topic, I'm not arrogant enough to believe that an anonymous poster can convince you to take your heels out of the sand, but I would think even a supporter like you would understand how this evidence might not go very far to explain Cheney's loooong line of statements on this topic.
