They're STILL at it! "Terror links to Saddam's Inner Circle"

[Roland99]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199052,00.html

Prologue:

What was the relationship between Saddam Hussein's inner circle and Islamic terrorists? A newly released document appears to provide evidence that in 1999 the Taliban welcomed "Islamic relations with Iraq" to mediate among the Taliban, the Northern Alliance and Russia, and that the Taliban invited Iraqi officials to Afghanistan.

The document, captured in Iraq but never before seen by the public, offers glimmers of new insight at the Pentagon's Foreign Military Studies Office Web site. The FMSO is a research and analysis center under the U.S. Army's Training and Doctrine Command.

This particular document mentions two men with similar names, each with ties to Pakistani religious schools known as madrassas, Jihad training camps, the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

This original translation by my translator-colleague, who goes by the nom de guerre of "Sammi," comes from a notebook kept by an Iraqi intelligence agent. It provides evidence of a cooperative, operational relationship agreed to at the highest levels of the Iraqi government and the Taliban. The notebook is lengthy and we will present it on the FOX News Web site in a series of postings. It deals extensively with meetings between Maulana Fazlur Rahman, an Al Qaeda/Taliban supporter, and Taha Yassin Ramadan, the former vice president of Iraq, and other unnamed Iraqi officials.

Remember the audio tapes stolen from an FBI office some months ago that was supposed to be relevatory in linking Saddam to terror but was nothing because the tapes have been in US custody for years and were found to have nothing on them linking Saddam to terror?

Sounds like Part Deux, to me.

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1. The analysis reminds me of the Powell/UN recordings

which were supposed to describe how non-existent WMDs were being shuttled from site to site.

They hear what they want to hear.

[Roland99]

2. And since when was the Taliban a terrorist organization?

Didn't our own State Dept recently release a list of terror groups and the Taliban weren't on it?

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4. Gooood point...

Nowhere to be found.

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/37191.htm

[Roland99]

5. Some RWingers on another board are going apeshit the "liberal media"

will ignore this "story"


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[ThoughtCriminal]

3. Isn't this about on the same level

as Taliban officials who came to Texas to negotiate a pipeline?