Re: Americans Deserve To Know...

"Steven Douglas" <dste...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> There are indications that by then the Iraqi regime
> tolerated and may even have helped Ansar al Islam
> against the common Kurdish enemy.

These imaginary "indications" were the fake intel
that came out of the Pentagon... even though no U.S.
intelligence agency (including military) would endorse
those re****ts.

> "With the Sudanese regime acting as intermediary, Bin
> Ladin himself met with a senior Iraqi intelligence
> officer in Khartoum in late 1994 or early 1995. Bin
> Ladin is said to have asked for space to establish
> training camps, as well as assistance in procuring
> weapons, but there is no evidence that Iraq responded
> to this request.

THIS is the ONE and ONLY time there was any discussion
between someone representing Al Qaeda and someone
representing Iraq, and Iraq turned Al Qaeda down.

> As described below, the ensuing years saw additional
> efforts to establish connections." [end quoting]
>
> Notice that last sentence there, just above?

Yup. Al Qaeda made additional efforts to establish
connections (which, in English, means that no connections
existed (else they wouldn't need to establish them, now
would they?)), but those efforts were never successful.

> Can you read?

Yes. Al Qaeda made numerous attempts to establish
connections and failed.