On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:16:15 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:


The press lied about what the 9-11 commission said:

http://server2.cybertarp.com/~peryno...-ties.lies.jpg

Your reference clips the 9-11 Commission report at an interesting and
probably (for them) a convenient place. Here's what they left out, after
their last sentence, "According to the reporting, Iraqi officials offered
Bin Ladin a safe haven in Iraq..."

"Bin Ladin declined, apparently judging that his circumstances in
Afghanistan remained more favorable than the Iraqi alternative. The reports
describe friendly contacts and indicate some common themes in both sides'
hatred of the United States. But to date we have seen no evidence that these
or the earlier contacts ever developed into a collaborative operational
relationship. Nor have we seen evidence indicating that Iraq cooperated with
al Qaeda in developing or carrying out any attacks against the United
States. [76]"

That's from the Commission Report. It's exactly the way _The New York Times_
reported it, and other print media reported much the same thing.

--
Ed Huntress


Of interest..take if or leave it.

http://www.geocities.com/republican_...Bin-Laden.html

There are also a couple names that seem to be undiscussed much...

Farooq al-Hijazi


And then, there is this....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in647507.shtml

.. Thomas Kean, co-chairman of the September 11 Commission, went far
beyond mere "links" between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda.

"There was no question in our minds that there was a relationship
between Iraq and al Qaeda," he said at a press conference on July 22,
2004. "Relationship" is also the word used to describe Iraq-al Qaeda
contacts in an internal Iraqi Intelligence document, authenticated by
U.S. intelligence and first disclosed on June 25, 2004, in the New
York Times. When bin Laden left the Sudan in 1996, according to the
document, his Iraqi Intelligence contacts began "seeking other
channels through which to handle the relationship, in light of his
current location." The document makes no mention of any formal
arrangement between Iraq and al Qaeda, but instructs that
''cooperation between the two organizations should be allowed to
develop freely through discussion and agreement."

Might want to read the article in its entirety..as you will note..CBS
is not a Rightwing blog....

Gunner

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