What is the relationship between 911 and Saddam?

By The Numbers


On September 11th, 2001 4 Flights were hijacked.


American Airlines Flight 11 which left Boston%26#039;s Logan Airport bound


for Los Angeles before being piloted into the North Tower of the


World Trade Center.American Airlines Flight 77 which left


Washington%26#039;s Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles


before being flown into the Pentagon.


United Airlines Flight 93 which left Newark, N.J., bound for San


Francisco before crashing in Stony Creek Township, Pa United


Airlines Flight 175 which left Boston%26#039;s Logan Airport bound for Los


Angeles before being piloted into the South Tower of the World Trade


Center. Why did the mastermind behind the attacks on America of


September 11th, 2001 choose these particular flight numbers? MY


THEORY ABOUT THE CHOICE OF FLIGHT 93 WAS THAT 1993 WAS THE YEAR


IN WHICH SADDAM FIRST TRIED TO ASSASSINATE FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH IN


KUWAIT, IT WAS ALSO THE YEAR IN WHICH SADDAM HUSSEIN FIRST TRIED


TO DESTROY THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. IT TURNED OUT TO BE AN UNLUCKY


NUMBER FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN BECAUSE THE PASSENGERS ON FLIGHT 93 BECAME


HEROES AND STOPPED THE PLANE FROM GOING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE.


%26quot;White House Was Flight 93 Target


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/2...


May 23, 2002


Volunteers in Shanksville this past weekend. (Photo: AP)


The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S.


fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44


people aboard were killed.


(CBS) A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the


intended target of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a


Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, was the White House.


Government sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, is


believed to be the source of the information. He is being


interrogated by U.S. officials at an undisclosed location.


Investigators have linked Zubaydah directly to hijackers on board


Flight 93.


United Flight 93 took off from Newark, N.J., and crashed in Somerset


County, Pa.. A recorder on the plane and calls made to people on the


ground indicate passengers fought for control with the hijackers


before it went down.


The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S.


fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44


people aboard were killed.


Officials previously had assumed the White House was a likely


target, but said the Capitol and CIA headquarters in McLean, Va.,


near Washington were other possibilities.Abu Zubaydah is believed to


have played a key role in organizing the Sept. 11 attacks, officials


said. As al Qaeda%26#039;s top operational planner, he ran the Khalden camp


in Afghanistan, where U.S. investigators have learned many of the


Sept. 11 hijackers trained. This suggests Abu Zubaydah may have had


direct contact with the hijackers and chosen them for training.


He also had telephone contacts with at least one Arab student at


U.S. flight schools, according to a July 10, 2001, memo from a


Phoenix FBI agent.


The CIA, FBI and Pakistani authorities captured and wounded Abu


Zubaydah in a raid by in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in March. He is


believed to have masterminded the failed millennium bombing plots in


Los Angeles and Jordan, and has been linked to failed plots on the


U.S. embassies in Paris and Sarajevo.


Abu Zubaydah was also indirectly linked, through a web of


associations with other al Qaeda members in Europe, to lead Sept. 11


hijacker Mohammed Atta and his cell in Hamburg, Germany. Three


members of the Hamburg cell were suicide hijackers; three others are


still at large. Ziad Jarrah, believed to be the pilot-hijacker of


Flight 93, was a member of the Hamburg cell.%26quot;


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/2...


The first attack on the World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993.


The February 26th, 1993 attack marked the 11th anniversary to the


day of the declaration by the Reagan-Bush Administration of February


26th, 1982 that Iraq was no longer a state sponsor of terrorism and


as such was eligible for American loans and grants, which it


subsequently got.


The February 26th, 1993 attack also marked the 2nd anniversary to the


day of the liberation of Kuwait by the U.S. in the first Gulf War.


Remarks at the Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the


Liberation of Kuwait Secretary Colin L. Powell Kuwait City, Kuwait


(US Embassy) February 26, 2001





The World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists associated with


Sheik Rahman on February 26th, 1993. It was Sheik Rahman%26#039;s group


that murdered Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on the 8th anniversary


to the day of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, October 6th.


Sheik Rahman%26#039;s son was subsequently found with bin Laden%26#039;s group


in Afghanistan when the U.S. liberated Afghanistan.





%26quot;White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: we have real and


credible information that the airplane that landed at the Pentagon


was


originally intended to hit the White House.%26quot;


http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/...


8.html#intended-targets


American Airlines Flight 77 which left Washington%26#039;s Dulles


International Airport bound for Los Angeles before being flown into


the Pentagon.


7/7 is one way to write the date July 7th


On July 7th, 1994 Yasser Arafat, PLO chairman drove from Egypt into


Gaza, after 27 years in exile. What Arafat was doing was using the


date of July 7th to re-write a perceived wrong he had felt some


years earlier on another July 7th. It was on July 7th 1986 that the


government of Jordan closed the offices of Yasser Arafat%26#039;s al-Fatah.


Because a bus bombing occurred in London on July 7th, 2005 it struck


me that the nation that has endured more bus bombings than any other


nation is Israel. There may be a connection between the July 7th,


2005 attacks in London and the terrorists who have targeted Israel


with bus bombings for years.


Recently terrorists in Iraq murdered Egypt%26#039;s envoy to Iraq.


%26quot;Zarqawi group reportedly killed Egyptian ambassador in Iraq


Iraq-Egypt, Politics, 7/7/2005


News reports from al-Jazeera and al-Arabia satellite TV stations


said that Egypt%26#039;s top diplomat in Iraq to Iraq, Eyhab al-Sharif, had


been executed.


Meantime, Al-Qaida organization in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al-


Zarqawi, had threatened in a statement on the Internet to execute


the chairman of the Egyptian diplomatic mission al-Sharif.


The threat to execute Sharif came a short time after al-Qaida


organization in Iraq issued pictures for the identity cards of the


Egyptian diplomat as an evidence that they are the ones which


kidnapped him.


The statement said the legitimate court of al-Qaida organization in


Mesopotamia decided to %26quot;send the ambassador of the state of Egypt to


the Mujahideen (indivduals from Egypt and other states that go to


Iraq to fight with the insurgents) to execute the death penalty


against him.%26quot; The statement considered that %26quot;the embassies in


Baghdad are but monitoring sites to snipe the arriving Mujahideen


and preventing them from having access to their brothers in Jihad in


the land of Mesopotamia (Iraq) and in Afghanistan.%26quot;


In an attempt to prove that the Egyptian ambassador is their


possession, al-Qaida organization published documents including a


driving Sharif%26#039;s license and a work card for him at the foreign


ministry and another one for health insurance. On Tuesday the


organization claimed responsibility for kidnapping Sharif.%26quot;





American Airlines Flight 11 which left Boston%26#039;s Logan Airport bound


for Los Angeles before being piloted into the North Tower of the


World Trade Center.


Saddam Hussein assassinated his first victim when he was 11 years


old. Fixated on the number 11 ever since then he easily focused on


the World Trade Center as a target because it looked so much like a


number 11 that WPIX TV Channel 11 in New York City used the World


Trade Center in its logo for years.


The World Trade Center also housed an office of the Bank of Kuwait.


Saddam used Rahman%26#039;s group to punish Sadat for failing to defeat


Israel in the attack on Israel of October 6th, 1973. Saddam also


used Sheik Rahman%26#039;s group to hit the Speaker of the Egyptian


Parliament during the first Gulf War when Egypt sided with America


against Iraq.


Saddam, acting like a child who is deprived of a toy, who


subsequently


breaks that toy, set fire to the Kuwaiti oil fields as he was being


driven out of Kuwait during the first Gulf War in 1991.


%26quot;Aired 9/11/2001 %26quot;Baghdad Republic of Iraq TV: These are


the fruits of the new US order.[Video of explosion rocking World


Trade


Center] Panic has spread among US official circles, which evacuated


the White House following a series of explosions.%26quot;


%26quot;CNN LARRY KING LIVE Aired October 2, 2001 LARRY KING: Have you


spoken to your father- in-law? (George Herbert Walker Bush)


LAURA BUSH: I%26#039;ve spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had


actually spent that Monday night here.(at the White House) I had


just seen them off that morning (9/11/2001) when I got in the car


and found out about the first plane.(going into the World Trade


Center.)%26quot;


%26quot;CNN LARRY KING LIVE America%26#039;s New War: Laura Bush Discusses the


Impact of September 11 Aired October 2, 2001 - 21:00 LARRY KING: A


couple of other things:


Have you spoken to your father- in-law? (Not in transcript, but the


father in law in question is one George Herbert Walker Bush !!!)


LAURA


BUSH: I%26#039;ve spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had actually


spent that Monday night here. (not in transcript but %26quot;here%26quot; means at


the White House !!!) LARRY KING: Really? LAURA BUSH: I had just seen


them off that morning when I got in the-got in the car and found out


about the first plane. LARRY KING: Didn%26#039;t know that. LAURA BUSH: They


were-they were on their way to St. Paul, Minnesota to give a speech,


and they were in a private plane, and their plane was diverted to


Minneapolis.%26quot; http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/l...


%26quot;September 11th, 2001 - The White House is


evacuated. White House Sealed%26quot;


http://www.september11news.com/AAWhiteHo...


%26quot;try to avoid having the principal


travel by commercial airline on terrorist anniversaries%26quot; from %26quot;The


Art


of Executive Protection%26quot;


http://www.securitymanagement.com/librar... %26quot;


Saddam tried to kill former President Bush in 1993.


Former President Bush%26#039;s Speech to Congress September 11th 1990. 11


years to the day before September 11th 2001 %26quot;In the early morning


hours of August 2d,(1990),a powerful Iraqi army invaded Kuwait. The


crisis in the Persian Gulf also offers a rare opportunity to move


toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled


times, our fifth objective-a new world order-can emerge.%26quot;


White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: we have real and credible


information that the airplane that landed at the Pentagon was


originally intended to hit the White House.%26quot;


%26quot;White House Was Flight 93 Target


A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the intended


target of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a


Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, was the White House. Government


sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, believed to be the


source of the information.%26quot;





Perhaps the following may explain how Saddam knew where former


President Bush might be spending the night of September 10th-11th


2001:


%26quot;Like everyone else in the United States, the group stood transfixed


as the events of September 11 unfolded. Present were former secretary


of defense Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III,


and representatives of the bin Laden family. This was not some


underground presidential bunker or Central Intelligence Agency


interrogation room. It was the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., the


plush setting for the annual investor conference of one of the most


powerful, well-connected, and secretive companies in the world: the


Carlyle Group. And since September 11, this little-known company has


become unexpectedly important. That the Carlyle Group had its


conference on America%26#039;s darkest day was mere coincidence, but there


is nothing accidental about the cast of characters that this


private-equity powerhouse has assembled in the 14 years since its


founding. Among those associated with Carlyle are former U.S.


President George Bush Sr., former U.K. Prime Minister John Major, and


former President of the Philippines Fidel Ramos. And Carlyle has


counted, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi


Arabia, and Osama bin Laden%26#039;s family among its high-profile


clientele.%26quot;


%26quot;The White House is bordered on three sides by buildings that are as


tall or taller than itself. (OEOB, Treasury, and Blair House.) Beyond


these buildings there are still more buildings, that also are taller


than the White House. The only flight path that is relatively


unobstructed if making a controlled, straight-in approach, is from


the south, over the ellipse. Even the Marine helicopter the president


uses comes in from this direction and lands on the South Lawn. The


problem with flying a plane the size of a 757 or 767 in from this


direction is that there%26#039;s a 555 ft tall structure in the way called


the Washington Monument. The Capitol, although a bigger target, is


similarly situated. There are buildings on all sides except for the


west side, which faces the Mall. Again, for a controlled, straight-in


approach, a pilot first would need to avoid the Washington Monument,


and then fly straight down the Mall. There is more room to do this,


but again, it would take considerable skill. Moreover, the buildings


in Roslyn, just across the river from and to the west of the Mall,


would have to be cleared, which means the plane%26#039;s altitude would


probably be too high, or the angle of descent too steep to permit a


successful attack by anyone other than a skilled, experienced pilot.%26quot;





To indicate September 1990 one might well write or type 9/90


It was in September of 1990 that President George Herbert Walker


Bush spoke to Congress on Iraq. On September 11th, 1990 in fact.





What of EgyptAir Flight 990?


Weeks after the last pile of debris from EgyptAir Flight 990 was


pulled from the sea, investigators say they are more


convinced than ever of their original theory: The jet was crashed


deliberately.%26quot;





%26quot;The co-pilot under scrutiny in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990


uttered


an Arabic prayer not once but as many as 10 times just


before the doomed airliner went down%26quot;


%26quot;Aviation Analyst John Nance Talks About Flight 990 When a commercial


aircraft goes into a dive as steep and precipitous as the preliminary


radar data seems to indicate.%26quot;


An example of terrorists striking on an anniversary


came on October 7th, 2004 in Taba.


%26quot;Images of Destruction | Taba Hilton Before and After Terrorist


Attack on October 7, 2004%26quot;


According to initial findings Naveh said, a car bomb blew up at the


entrance to the Hilton Taba Hotel and there was a combined bomb and


shooting attack in two restaurants usually frequented by Israelis in


Ras Al-Satan.%26quot;


http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/40208...


On October 7th,2001 %26quot;America Retaliates for the September 11


Attacks. October 7, 2001 President George W. Bush Speaks to America


After the Strikes Begin.


%26quot;On October 7th, 1959, Saddam and others attempted, but failed, to


assassinate the prime minister of Iraq. Wanted by the Iraqi


government, Saddam was forced to flee. He lived in exile in Syria


for three months and then moved to Egypt where he lived for three


years.%26quot;


http://history1900s.about.com/od/saddamh...





%26quot;President Saddam Hussein chairs 48th Cabinet Session Baghdad, Oct.


22, 2001 INA


President Saddam Hussein chaired on Sunday the 48th Cabinet session.


The Cabinet discussed recent events of Palestinian Intifadha and


praised Palestinians brave and


persistent struggle for liberating their lands. The cabinet reviewed


the current international


situation, especially the U.S aggression on Afghanistan. The Cabinet


brought back a historic


stance Iraq had taken in 1979 when it condemned the military Soviet


invasion of Afghanistan though Iraq had then deep relations with the


Soviet Union and there was a


friendship and cooperation agreement between Iraq and the Soviet


Union, yet this had not prevented Iraq from taking the national


independent stand rejecting Soviet%26#039;s behavior. History repeats itself


once again in 2001 as Iraq takes the same stance and condemns the US


aggression on Afghanistan....this confirms Iraq%26#039;s principled stance


rejecting all forms of foreign intervention and aggressions. The


Cabinet discussed issues listed on its agenda and made necessary


decisions and recommendations.%26quot;


Saddam loves 11th anniversaries, for instance %26quot; Saddam Hussein%26#039;s


speech on the 11th Anniversary of the Great Victory Day In the Name


of God, Most Compassionate, Most


Merciful Great People, The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces, Sons of


our Glorious Arab Nation…%26quot;





%26quot;Middle East Correspondent, Robert Fisk: Why was it that the bombing


of the two


embassies in Tanzania and Kenya occurred on the eighth anniversary to


the very day of the first arrival of American troops of the 82nd


airborne in Saudi Arabia in 1990?%26quot;


%26quot;The 12th of October 2002 will for the rest of Australian history be


counted as a day when evil


struck with indiscriminate and indescribable savagery,%26quot;


%26quot;On October 12th, 2000 terrorists in a boat laden with explosives


carried out a


suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the harbor at Aden, Yemen. In


what President Clinton described as a %26quot;despicable and cowardly act,%26quot;


17 U.S. sailors were killed, and over 30 others were wounded.%26quot;


After the liberation of Iraq terrorists struck the Baghdad Hotel on


October 12th.


If you add 1 to 9 you get 10. If you add 1 to 11 you get 12. Thus


the 9/11/2001 attack


was presaged by the attack on the U.S.S. Cole on 10/12/2000. The


terrorists were


engaging in what to them was a private joke regarding their plans


for 9/11/2001.


%26quot;Iraq has the motivation and the means to actively support the


Islamist networks of the region*** In the past, there have been


intelligence reports of possible cooperation between Iraq and Osama


bin Laden. Iraq has already tried to assassinate President Bush


Senior in 1993, when he visited Kuwait as a private citizen. In the


attack


on the USS Cole in Aden (in) October (of 2000), there could have


been an


Iraqi connection. Iraq has excellent relations with the anti-Western


Yemeni Islamists of the Army of Aden-Abyan, whose militants have been


arrested by the Yemenite authorities in connection with the attack.


Such an attack required long preparations, technical and military


skills and good operational intelligence. In addition, the explosive


used in the attack was sophisticated, a %26quot;shaped charge%26quot; like a


torpedo or a missile, a device not in use by terrorist


organizations, and


which may have come from a military stockpile.%26quot;


4 DAYS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 Saddam%26#039;s Stepson in USA


%26quot;Authorities said Saffi%26quot; (Saddam%26#039;s Stepson), %26quot; triggered red flags


for four reasons: the family relationship to the Iraqi dictator;


training


at an American flight school; arrival on the eve of the Independence


Day celebrations; and his only documented prior entry into the United


States occurred just four days before the Sept. 11 terrorist


attacks.%26quot;


%26quot;Saddam%26#039;s Stepson to Be Deported Fri Jul 5th 2002 (Saffi) was


planning to study at a flight school believed by the FBI


to have been used by one of the Sept. 11 hijackers.%26quot;


%26quot;US officials state that an FBI investigation had substantiated


charges that the Iraqi government plotted the assassination of former


President Bush while visiting Kuwait in April 1993.%26quot;


%26quot;Terrorist Pilot Met With Iraqi Intelligence Agent By RICK JERVIS


Special to The Wall Street Journal Europe Wall Street Journal,


Europe October 4, 2001 [With thanks to Laurie Mylroie - Iraq News]


PRAGUE-Mohamed Atta, who


allegedly crashed the first plane into the World Trade Center on


Sept. 11, met at least one Iraqi intelligence agent last year in


Prague


before moving to the U.S., a Czech official close to the


investigation


said.%26quot;





United Airlines Flight 175 which left Boston%26#039;s Logan Airport bound


for Los Angeles before being piloted into the South Tower of the


World Trade Center.


UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY 15 December 1988 43/175.


Question of Palestine


RECORDED VOTE ON RESOLUTION 43/175 A: 123-2-20





Did Anniversary Assassins Strike Again November 22nd 2004


What do you think the chances are that the plane crash which would


have killed the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert


Walker Bush,had he been on board the plane which was enroute from


Love Field in Dallas, Texas to pick him up, on the 41st anniversary


of the assassination of JFK 11/22/1963 was a botched assassination


attempt? Saddam Hussein, who may be running the show from his jail


cell, assassinated his first victim when he was 11 years old, took


power in Iraq in 1968, made it official 11 years later in 1979,


invaded Kuwait 11 years later in 1990 sent bin Laden to assassinate


former President Bush 11 years later on 9/11/2001 on the 11th


anniversary to the day of the 9/11/1990 Bush speech to Congress on


Iraq in which Bush mentioned The New World Order.%26quot;US plans to


dominate the world under the cover of what is called the new [world]


order. These are the fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion


rocking World Trade Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic


of Iraq Television in Arabic-Official television station of the


Iraqi Government.%26quot; The World Trade Center looked so much like the


number 11 that WPIX-TV Channel 11 in New York City used the World


Trade Center as its logo. Note 11 times 2 equals 22. The Madrid


attacks were done exactly 911 days after 9/11/2001. Sadat,


criticized by arafat and Saddam for making peace with Israel, was


assassinated on 10/6/1981 exactly 8 years after the 10/6/1973 Yom


Kippur War in which he failed to defeat Israel. The American


Embassies in Africa were hit on August 8th, 1998, exactly 8 years


after the US entered Saudi Arabia in response to Saddam%26#039;s invasion


of Kuwait. A gentlemanly John Connally reaches to remove his hat as


Jackie Kennedy enters presidential limousine at Love Field, Dallas,


November 22, 1963


Source: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images/jbc-lo...





The shocking news that narco-terrorists in Colombia plotted to


assassinate current President George W. Bush on Monday November


22nd, 2004,


the 41st anniversary of the JFK assassination, needs some


examination.


BCCI, the infamous drug-terror-arms bank that allegedly gave former


President Jimmy Carter $10 million for the Carter Library,had


offices in Peru, where


coca leaves are grown, in Colombia, where the coca leaves are


processed into cocaine, and in Castro%26#039;s Cuba, and Baathist Syria and


Baathist Iraq. Banks


did not get offices in any of those 3 tyrannies without the approval


of the tyrant.


%26quot;Colombian Rebels Planned to Kill President Bush


November 27th, 2004 U.S. National - Reuters


By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Bush was


targeted for assassination by Colombia%26#039;s biggest Marxist rebel group


this week when he visited the Caribbean port city of Cartagena, a


top Colombian official said on Saturday. %26quot;According to informants


and various sources, we had information indicating that various


members of the FARC had been instructed by their leaders to make an


attempt against President Bush,%26quot; Defense Secretary Jorge Alberto


Uribe told reporters. He would not be drawn out on the details of


the threat. The White House had no immediate comment.


The U.S. Secret Service, which protects the president, said it %26quot;does


not comment or release information regarding our protective


intelligence and protective methods.%26quot; %26quot;We do not discuss any alleged


threats to our protectees,%26quot; said Jonathan Cherry, a Secret Service


spokesman.


There was heavy security in Cartagena when Bush visited the city on


Monday(November 22nd, 2004)on his way back from the APEC forum in


Chile. Military helicopters packed with armed soldiers flew over


Bush%26#039;s motorcade while naval vessels kept watch offshore. Many shops


were shuttered.%26quot;


Source: http://news.yahoo.com/news?


tmpl=story%26amp;u=/nm/20041127/us_nm/colomb...


%26quot;In early August, 1991, the Committee was provided with documents


from the Latin American and Caribbean Region Office (LACRO) of BCCI,


describing the offer for sale by the Argentine air force of 22


Mirage aircraft for $110 million. (63) The planned sale was to have


been made to Iraq, as part of Saddam Hussein%26#039;s massive military


buildup prior to the Gulf war. BCCI was acting as the broker for the


transaction, which was to take place in August or September of


1989...As Robert Mazur, the Customs agent in Tampa who selected BCCI


as the target of the Customs money laundering sting testified, BCCI


bank executives volunteered methods to enhance and improve his


techniques for money laundering, and shortly before the sting ended


the operation, offered to introduce Mazur to other potential %26quot;cash%26quot;


customers for money laundering services from Bogota, Colombia....%26quot;


Source: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt...


%26quot;The Ba%26#039;ath leadership gave the orders for Qasim%26#039;s assassination...On


October 7th,1959, a six-,man assassination squad was waiting...the


night before one member of the squad had fallen ill. A new recruit


was drafted in...his full name was Saddam Hussein al-Takriti.%26quot;


Page 22


%26quot;The Ba%26#039;athist led forces...participated in the coup of 8th February


1963...Immediately after the coup, Saddam Hussein returned to Iraq,


where he was appointed as the head of Al-Jihaz Al Khas, known


popularly as Jihaz Haneen (the Yearning Apparatus), the clandestine


intelligence organization of the Ba%26#039;ath Party. Saddam proceeded to


turn it into an instrument of terror....on 18th November (1963) the


army seized power in a swift military coup...the new leadership of


the Ba%26#039;ath Party...was arrested. However, some of its members


immediately collaborated with the new regime...%26quot; Pgs 25-26


%26quot;7th October 1959 A Ba%26#039;athist assassination squad fails to kill


Qasim. A member of the team, twenty-two-year old Saddam Hussein,


escapes to Syria and then to Egypt...8th February 1963 A Ba%26#039;athist


coup overthrows Quasim amidst several days of terrible street


fighting...18th November 1963 Following bitter infighting


between...factions of the Baath, Arif overthrows the Ba%26#039;athist


regime...%26quot; Pages 312-313


%26quot;Saddam...inherited from his uncle an admiration for Nazi


principles...he was attracted to the ideas of the Ba%26#039;ath nationalist


movement. The movement had been established in Damascus in 1943%26quot;


(when Syria was a French colony and Hitler ruled France) %26quot;by two


Syrians, Greek Orthodox Christian Michel A%26#039;flaq and Sunni Muslim


Salah al-Bitar. Their philosophy was based on the ideology of German


national socialism%26quot; (Nazism) %26quot;and on Italian fascism.%26quot; Page 199


%26quot;After the Ba%26#039;ath Party came to power in February 1963...Saddam was


promoted into the Regional Command Council and it was soon found


that this was his metier. He was put in charge of a special force


responsible for terror and assassination and was an interrogator and


torturer in the Qasr al-Nihayyat (`The Palace of the End%26#039;).


Eyewitnesses say Saddam excelled in creating new methods and


revealed a sadistically inventive mind. He designed new instruments


of torture and then experimentd with them on his victims. ...By the


summer of 1963, Saddam was urging the party to put him in charge of


creating a special security apparatus modelled on the Nazi SS. This


was the Jihaz Haneen....following nationalisation of banks and


certain foreign companies in 1964, the Ba%26#039;ath Party instructed


Saddam to assassinate the president Abd al-Salam Arif. The proposed


assassination was designed to trigger off another Ba%26#039;ath coup.


Critics say it was a plan on behalf of the CIA but according to some


Ba%26#039;athist defectors the CIA did not have direct contact with the


Ba%26#039;ath itself but with army officers who were co-ordinating a joint


coup with the party. The main contact with the Americans was Iraq%26#039;s


own ambassador in Washington, Dr. Nasser al-Hanni.%26quot; Pages 201-203


%26quot;The second part of the plot was carried out by the Jihaz


Haneen...Members of the Iraqi Jewish community...were...arrested.


Eleven of them were among the first fourteen `spies%26#039; to be pubicly


hanged on 27th January 1969....The public hangings turned into a


national holiday with live television and radio coverage, and the


Ba%26#039;ath Party organized the transport of some hundred


thousand `workers and peasants%26#039; from outside Baghdad to join


in...Families picknicked under trees while watching the hangings.


This public orgy of death went on for twenty-four hours...%26quot; Page 206





Source: Unholy Babylon-The Secret History of Saddam%26#039;s War by Adel


Darwish and Gregory Alexander St. Martin%26#039;s Press, New York 1991


ISBN 0-312-06530-2


%26quot;Compare the January 1969 show trial with another spectacle


organized by the first Ba%26#039;thi regime in 1963 and designed to counter


the continuing popularity of the ousted president, `Abd al-Karim


Qassem, among certain sectors of the Shi%26#039;ite population of Baghdad.


In the first week of the coup, the citizens of al-Thawra, a suburb


of Baghdad, had fought the army and Ba%26#039;thist militia in some of the


bloodiest street battles in the history of the country. They refused


to believe that Qassem had been overthrown....The Ba%26#039;ath...dealt


with this emotive imagery by televising a lengthy film clip


displaying Qassem%26#039;s bullet-ridden corpse. Night after night, they


made their gruesome point. The body was propped up on a chair in the


studio. A soldier saunter around, handling its parts. The camera


would cut to scenes of devastation at the Ministry of Defence where


Qassem had made his last stand. There, on location, it lingered on


the mutilated corpses of Qassem%26#039;s entourage...Back to the studio,


and close-ups now of the entry and exit points of each bullet hole.


The whole macabre sequence closes with a scene that must forever


remain etched on the memory of all those who saw it: the soldier


grabbing the lolling head by the hair, came right up close, and spat


full face into it. The fear that the Ba%26#039;th were trying to instill in


this and other instances was brutally direct. The centuries-old


message was simple: he is dead, you had better believe it, we can do


the smae to you. The fact that it was on television extended its


reach...%26quot; Pages 58-59.


Source: Republic of Fear The Inside Story of Saddam%26#039;s Iraq by Samir


al Khalil Pantheon Books, New York 1989 ISBN 0-679-73502-X


%26quot;An Afghani tends to a field of heroin poppies, the sale of which


provides much of the financing for the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.


Afghanistan is the world%26#039;s No. 1 producer and distributor of heroin,


and illicit drug trafficking is the biggest funding source for


By Rachel Ehrenfeld / Special to The Detroit News About the author


Rachel Ehrenfeld is director of the New York-based Center for the


Study of Corruption and the author of %26quot;Evil Money%26quot; (HarperBusiness)


and %26quot;Narco-Terrorism%26quot; (Basic Books).


Moving the money...


In the welter of events following the bombing of the World Trade


Center in Feb. 26, 1993, few noticed that the first man arrested,


Mohammed Salameh—the poor, unemployed illegal immigrant—


offered $5 million for bail. Where could he get this kind of money?


The judge refused bail. But was the source of Salameh%26#039;s offer the


same as the one that funded the eight men—arrested shortly


afterward—who planned to blow up Manhattan%26#039;s tunnels and bridges


and to assassinate public officials?


Were the same money sources behind the final attack on the World


Trade Center on Sept. 11?


... For a long time, there has been evidence that terrorist,


international drug trafficking and criminal organizations use the


same fund-raising methods to enrich themselves.


Yet no one seemed to connect the dots. And no one seriously tried to


crack down on their financing.


Bin Laden%26#039;s is only one among many hostile international criminal


organizations, often state-sponsored, that will do whatever they can


to diminish the status of the United States as the only superpower.


According to a State Department report, the Taliban, who are at bin


Laden%26#039;s service, has the advantage of controlling the world%26#039;s


largest heroin production and distribution in the world.


Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the heroin production


soared to hundreds of tons each year. In 1999 alone, the world


production of heroin was estimated at 500 metric tons; 400 were


produced by the Taliban and available to fund bin Laden and his


associates worldwide. First warning


The writing was on the wall on July 5, 1991, when the Bank of


England shut down what was the most important Islamic bank in the


world, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). This


criminal entity was created by the Pakistani Aaga Hassan Abedi %26quot;to


fight the evil influence of the West%26quot;; to help with the creation of


the %26quot;Islamic Bomb%26quot;; to finance all Muslim terrorist organizations;


and to launder the money that was generated mostly by illicit drug


trafficking and other illegal activities, including arms


trafficking.


When BCCI went belly up, we learned from thousands of documents that


Abu Nidal—the notorious Palestinian terrorist organization that


now enjoys the hospitality of Iraq%26#039;s Saddam Hussein, the Palestine


Liberation Organization (PLO), Hezbollah and bin Laden—had


accounts in the bank. By the end of the 1980s, the %26quot;special


services%26quot; provided by BCCI included access to Western humanitarian


and international development funds, as well as drug money


laundering, secret transfers of cash and bribes.


A %26quot;Black Network,%26quot; a special enforcement unit supported by Abu Nidal


and other terrorist organizations, operated from Pakistan. The same


Pakistan that harbored bin Laden for many years while its officials


told the United States that they didn%26#039;t know his whereabouts. And


the same Pakistan that for decades, even according to the State


Department%26#039;s annual report, had been a major drug trafficking and


money laundering center.





Western blindness


Yet, now more importantly, we also discovered that the American and


British governments knew and kept the bank open for a long time. The


bank %26quot;that would bribe God%26quot; was able to get away with its criminal


activities for decades due to Abedi%26#039;s clever portrayal of the Muslim


nations as victims of Western—and particularly U.S.—


%26quot;imperialism.%26quot; And when the bank was shuttered, the accusation in


the Muslim/Arab and Third World countries was that the U.S. and the


United Kingdom governments closed the bank to curtail the growing


fiscal power of Muslim countries.


Like Abedi, anti-American, anti-Western terrorist and radical Muslim


states and organizations, such as the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Hamas,


Hezbollah, the PLO, Iraq and Iran, use Western democratic rhetoric


to their advantage. But it is the willful blindness, mainly toward


the growing volume of drug money laundering, exercised by Western


bankers on the one hand and Western politicians on the other, that


makes money laundering possible, despite the many laws and


international conventions to control this phenomenon.


The BCCI was the first warning to the West. The second warning about


the abuse of European and American financial markets by terrorist


organizations, as well as their involvement in the illicit arms and


drug trade, was made in February 1994 by the British National


Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS).


The Organized Crime Unit of the NCIS warned that Middle East


terrorist groups and states were targeting the financial centers of


London, Frankfurt and other Western countries, and that they favor


illegal drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud....


Clinton appeasement


Despite its stated policy of not negotiating with terrorists, the


Clinton administration went out of its way to appease a few of the


20th century%26#039;s most notorious terror groups: the Revolutionary Armed


Forces of Colombia (FARC), the PLO and the Irish Republican Army.


All are heavily involved in the drug trade.


On the eve of the 1993 handshake on the White House lawn between


Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat,


Britain%26#039;s National Criminal Intelligence Service estimated the PLO%26#039;s


ill-gotten gains to total between $8 billion to $10 billion, with an


annual income of about $1.5 billion to $2 billion from %26quot;donations,


extortion, payoffs, illegal arms dealing, drug trafficking, money


laundering, fraud, etc.%26quot;


Since then, Washington has only aided and abetted the PLO. Since the


start of the Oslo process, Arafat has received at least $3 billion


more from the United States and the international community, without


any serious demand for accountability, according to a report this


year to Congress. Arafat, in well-documented instances, has been


systematically skimming off portions of these funds, as he has with


monies given to him on behalf of the refugees in the camps.


The PLO was in the drug trafficking business almost from the


beginning. Operating from Lebanon, under Habash%26#039;s able leadership


and assisted by a PLO-owned shipping company SUMUD, the organization


exported hashish, opium, heroin and cocaine, first to Europe and


later even to the United States and Australia. In return, it


obtained weapons for their war against Israel and the West, and


amassed a massive treasure trove. In addition, the PLO and Arafat,


who enjoy the financial and strategic support of Hussein and bin


Laden, have the distinction of being the organization that


promoted %26quot;suicide bombers%26quot; as a weapon.


Yet the Clinton administration subsidized a multitude of radical


Palestinian groups, ranging from Arafat%26#039;s Fatah branch of the PLO


and its military wing, the Tanzim, to the socialist-nationalist


Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), headed by


George Habash, all with close ties to bin Laden, Iraq and Iran.


...It was the Clinton White House that, despite evidence to the


contrary, removed Syria from its list of the drug trafficking


countries, to entice Syria to join the %26quot;peace process%26quot; in the Middle


East.


The failure of that process and the compromises the United States


has made to maintain an illusion of peaceful prospects had no doubt


added to the Muslim radical terrorists%26#039; resolve to attack what they


see as a naive and vulnerable America.


In another example of self-delusion, in 1999, then Secretary of


State Madeleine Albright suggested a U.S.-led coalition to negotiate


with the FARC and supported Colombia President Pastrana%26#039;s %26quot;land for


peace%26quot; initiative, despite a report from the General Accounting


Office that the FARC is running a major international criminal


enterprise that, among other things, supplies hundreds of tons of


cocaine and heroin to the U.S. black market.


This second Clinton %26quot;land for peace%26quot; initiative gave half of


Colombia to the narco-terrorist FARC, while doing nothing to


diminish its violence or appetite to control the rest of the


country....%26quot;


Source: http://www.detnews.com/2001/editorial/01...





Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called the Palestinian Authority


a %26quot;gang of corrupt assassins and terrorists.%26quot; %26quot;There is an obstacle


[to peace] with the gang of corrupt assassins and terrorists that


lead the Palestinian Authority,%26quot; Sharon said in a televised speech


in Israel. %26quot;The only way to peace is to remove this murderous


posse.%26quot; – Source:


New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com


Sharon raps Arafat `assassins%26#039; By KENNETH R. BAZINET DAILY NEWS


WASHINGTON BUREAU Thursday, August 8th, 2002


%26quot;Bush back from surprise Iraq trip


President Bush has arrived back in the United States after a


surprise trip to Baghdad, where he spent two hours with US troops


celebrating Thanksgiving Day.


Mr. Bush told troops the US would not be swayed by ongoing attacks


in Iraq.


%26quot;We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq, pay a


bitter cost of casualties, defeat a ruthless dictator and liberate


25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and


assassins,%26quot; he told 600 US soldiers.


Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_...


%26quot;President Bush and his wife, Laura, along with former president


George H. W.


Bush, welcome the King and Queen of Spain, Juan and Sofia Carlos, to


their ranch


Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004, in Crawford, Texas.(AP Photo/Lawrence


Jackson)%26quot;


Source:


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?


tmpl=story%26amp;u=/041124/480/txlj101112418...


A small jet chartered to fly former President Bush to Ecuador


Monday,November


22nd, 2004 was well below normal altitude when it clipped a toll


road light


tower and crashed into a muddy field three miles south of Hobby


Airport, killing


the crew of three.The plane, which belonged to Jet Place Inc. of


Tulsa, Okla.,


came from Love Field in Dallas. It was approaching the runway when


the wing and


the landing gear on the right side clipped the pole on a tollway


road.....%26quot;


%26quot;Weeks after the last pile of debris from EgyptAir Flight 990 was


pulled from the sea, investigators say they are more


convinced than ever of their original theory: The jet was crashed


deliberately.%26quot;


http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyN... %26quot;The


co-pilot under scrutiny in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 uttered


an Arabic prayer not once but as many as 10 times just


before the doomed airliner went down%26quot;


http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyN...


%26quot;Aviation Analyst John Nance Talks About Flight 990 When a commercial


aircraft goes into a dive as steep and precipitous as the preliminary


radar data seems to indicate.%26quot;


http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyN...


%26quot;The White House is bordered on three sides by buildings that are as


tall or taller than itself. (OEOB, Treasury, and Blair House.) Beyond


these buildings there are still more buildings, that also are taller


than the White House. The only flight path that is relatively


unobstructed if making a controlled, straight-in approach, is from


the


south, over the ellipse. Even the Marine helicopter the president


uses comes in from this direction and lands on the South Lawn. The


problem with flying a plane the size of a 757 or 767 in from this


direction is that there%26#039;s a 555 ft tall structure in the way called


the Washington Monument. The Capitol, although a bigger target, is


similarly situated. There are buildings on all sides except for the


west side, which faces the Mall. Again, for a controlled, straight-in


approach, a pilot first would need to avoid the Washington Monument,


and then fly straight down the Mall. There is more room to do this,


but again, it would take considerable skill. Moreover, the buildings


in Roslyn, just across the river from and to the west of the Mall,


would have to be cleared, which means the plane%26#039;s altitude would


probably be too high, or the angle of descent too steep to permit a


successful attack by anyone other than a skilled, experienced pilot.%26quot;








Imagine the rage and fury of Saddam Hussein


%26quot;On February 26th, 1982 the Reagan Administration told Congress that


it had dropped Iraq from the list of nations that supported acts of


international terrorism. Baghdad would now be eligible for American


government loan guarantees.%26quot; source: SPIDER%26#039;S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY


OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN:


0553096508


Imagine Saddam%26#039;s rage and fury when Kuwait was liberated on February


26th, 1991, 9 years to the day after the event described above! Is it


any wonder that Saddam would launch the first of his 2 attacks on the


World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993, the 2nd anniversary of the


liberation of Kuwait City, and the 11th anniversary of the event


described above, and that he would launch his 2nd attack on the World


Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, the 11th anniversary of the


Bush


I speech to Congress on Iraq. Saddam loves 11th anniversaries, for


instance %26quot; Saddam Hussein%26#039;s speech on the 11th Anniversary of the


Great Victory Day In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most


Merciful Great People, The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces, Sons of


our Glorious Arab Nation…%26quot;


http://www.index.com.jo/iraqtoday/august...





Saddam took credit for the September 11th attacks on America on


Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television. Saddam sent his henchman Osama


bin Laden to attack America and to assassinate former President


Bush, who was at the White House on the morning of September 11th,


2001,just as he had tried to assassinate former President Bush in


Kuwait in 1993. That is why Flight 93 was selected to hit the White


House on the morning of September 11th, 2001. Fortunately the heroes


of Flight 93 stopped that from happening and the plane went down in


Pennsylvania.


Second Attempt to Assassinate President Bush.


We all know that Saddam Hussein attempted to assassinate former


President


Bush in Kuwait in 1993. Laura Bush, wife of the current President


Bush,


along with the current President Bush%26#039;s brothers, his parents, and


former Secretary of State Baker were actually in the air enroute to


Kuwait when the intelligence came in and their plane was turned back.


Then President Clinton later bombed an empty Iraqi intelligence


building


in retaliation for that attempt in which Saddam%26#039;s homicide bombers


were


caught in Kuwait.


We believe that the Second Attempt to assassinate former President


George Herbert Walker Bush was made by Saddam Hussein using his


henchman Osama bin Laden on September 11th, 2001.


September 11th, 1990 Dubya%26#039;s Dad Speaks to Congress on Iraq When


September 11th Yes ! September 11th 1990. Exactly 11 years to the


day before the infamous September 11th 2001 attacks on America.


Saddam%26#039;s Revenge !!! How clear it is!!! %26quot;Address Before a Joint


Session of the Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis and the Federal


Budget Deficit September 11, 1990.


We gather tonight, witness to events in the Persian Gulf as


significant as they are tragic. In the early morning hours of August


2d, following negotiations and promises by Iraq%26#039;s dictator Saddam


Hussein not to use force, a powerful Iraqi army invaded its trusting


and much weaker neighbor, Kuwait. *** The crisis in the Persian Gulf,


as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an


historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our


fifth


objective-a new world order-can emerge. ***%26quot; READ THE WHOLE OF


DUBYA%26#039;S


DADDY%26#039;S SPEECH TO CONGRESS ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1990 AT


http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ %26quot;Note: The President spoke at 9:09


p.m.in


the House Chamber at the Capitol.. The address was broadcast live on


nationwide television and radio.%26quot; http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ Iraq


Cheers September 11th Attacks on America %26quot;Wednesday, September 12,


2001 Baghdad TV Commentary: US `Reaping Fruits of Crimes Against


Humanity%26#039; Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television in Arabic 1700 GMT 11


Sep 01 [TV Commentary by Sa%26#039;d Yasin Yusuf read by announcer over


footage of explosions in New York] [FBIS Translated Text] [With


thanks


to Laurie Mylorie - Iraq Watch] The American cowboy is reaping the


fruits of his crimes against humanity. It is a black day in the


history of America, which is tasting the bitter defeat of its crimes


and disregard for peoples%26#039; will to lead a free, decent life. The


massive explosions in the centers of power in America, notably the


Pentagon, is a painful slap in the face of US politicians to stop


their illegitimate hegemony and attempts to impose custodianship on


peoples. It was no coincidence that the World Trade Center was


destroyed in suicidal operations involving two planes that have


broken


through all US security barriers to carry the operation of the


century


and to express rejection of the reckless US policy. Panic has spread


among US official circles, which evacuated the White House following


a


series of explosions. They also evacuated the Pentagon, the State


Department, and Congress and closed down the airports and government


institutions. The collapse of US centers of power is a collapse of


the


US policy, which deviates from human values and stands by world


Zionism at all international forums to continue to slaughter the


Palestinian Arab people and implement US plans to dominate the world


under the cover of what is called the new [world] order. These are


the


fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion rocking World Trade


Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television


in


Arabic-Official television station of the Iraqi Government]%26quot;


http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3








%26quot;BLITZER: That%26#039;s Osama bin Laden%26#039;s group. Now you also have some


new information, David, about Mohamed Atta. He%26#039;s the suspected


ringleader of the September 11th hijackings.


ENSOR: Well, that%26#039;s right. As you know, he was one of the suicide


hijackers who died on September 11th on one of those aircraft. And we


had previously reported on September 19th that he met with an Iraqi


intelligence official somewhere in Europe. Well, I%26#039;m now able to tell


you, based on information from U.S. sources, he met not once but


twice with Iraqi intelligence officers in Prague in the Czech


Republic:


once last year in June of 2000 and once in April of 2001.%26quot;


http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/10/l...


Aired 9/11/2001 %26quot;Baghdad Republic of Iraq TV: These are


the fruits of the new US order.[Video of explosion rocking World


Trade


Center]Panic has spread among US official circles, which evacuated


the White House following a series of explosions.%26quot;





%26quot;CNN LARRY KING LIVE Aired October 2, 2001 LARRY KING: Have you


spoken to your father- in-law? (George Herbert Walker Bush)


LAURA BUSH: I%26#039;ve spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had


actually spent that Monday night here.(at the White House) I had


just seen them off that morning (9/11/2001) when I got in the car


and found out about the first plane.(going into the World Trade


Center.)%26quot; http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/l...





%26quot;Senator Joseph Lieberman: (Saddam) tried to kill former President


Bush (in 1993)%26quot;


http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPT...








Former President Bush Speech to Congress September 11th 1990. 11


years to the day before September 11th 2001 %26quot;In the early morning


hours of August 2d,(1990),a powerful Iraqi army invaded Kuwait.The


crisis in the Persian Gulf also offers a rare opportunity to move


toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled


times, our fifth objective-a new world order-can emerge.%26quot;


http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/





%26quot;(White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: we have real and


credible information that the airplane that landed at the Pentagon


was originally intended to hit the White House.%26quot;


http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/...


8.html#intended-targets





%26quot;White House Was Flight 93 Target


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/2...


A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the intended


target of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a


Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, was the White House. Government


sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, believed to be the


source of the information.%26quot; %26quot;Moussaoui Says He Was to Hijack 5th


Plane


By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer (Monday March 27, 2006)


Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified Monday that he and


would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth


airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House.


Moussaoui%26#039;s testimony on his own behalf stunned the courtroom. His


account was in stark contrast to his previous statements in which he


said the White House attack was to come later if the United States


refused to release a radical Egyptian sheik imprisoned on earlier


terrorist convictions.


On Dec. 22, 2001, Reid was subdued by passengers when he attempted


to detonate a bomb in his shoe aboard American Airlines Flight 63


from Paris to Miami. There were 197 people on board. The plane was


diverted to Boston, where it landed safely.


Moussaoui told the court he knew the World Trade Center attack was


coming and that he lied to investigators when arrested in August


2001 because he wanted it to happen.


%26quot;You lied because you wanted to conceal that you were a member of al-


Qaida?%26quot; prosecutor Rob Spencer asked.


%26quot;That%26#039;s correct,%26quot; Moussaoui said.


Spencer: %26quot;You lied so the plan could go forward?%26quot;


Moussaoui: %26quot;That%26#039;s correct.%26quot;


The exchange was key to the government%26#039;s case that the attacks might


have been averted if Moussaoui had been more cooperative following


his arrest.


Moussaoui told the court he knew the attacks were coming some time


after August 2001 and bought a radio so he could hear them unfold.


Specifically, he said he knew the World Trade Center was going to be


attacked, but asserted he was not part of that plot and didn%26#039;t know


the details.


Nineteen men pulled off the Sept. 11 attacks on New York in


Washington in the worst act of terrorism ever on U.S. soil.


%26quot;I had knowledge that the Twin Towers would be hit,%26quot; Moussaoui


said. %26quot;I didn%26#039;t know the details of this.%26quot;


Asked by his lawyer why he signed his guilty plea in April as %26quot;the


20th hijacker,%26quot; Moussaoui replied: %26quot;Because everybody used to refer


to me as the 20th hijacker and it was a bit of fun.%26quot;


Before Moussaoui took the stand, his lawyers made a last attempt to


stop him from testifying, but failed. Defense attorney Gerald Zerkin


argued that his client would not be a competent witness because he


has contempt for the court, only recognizes Islamic law and


therefore %26quot;the affirmation he undertakes would be meaningless.%26quot;


Moussaoui at first denied he was to have been a fifth hijack pilot


Sept. 11 but under cross examination spoke of the plan that would


have him attack the White House. He said Reid was the only person he


knew for sure would have been on that mission, but others were


discussed.


The 19 terrorists on Sept. 11 hijacked and crashed four airliners,


killing nearly 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon


and on the planes. The intended target of the plane that crashed


into a Pennsylvania field remains unknown.


Moussaoui said he talked with an al-Qaida official in 1999 about why


a 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center failed to bring the towers


down. He said %26quot;was asked in the same period for the first time if I


want to be a suicide pilot and I declined.%26quot;


Just before Moussaoui took the stand, the court heard testimony that


two months before the attacks that a CIA deputy chief waited in vain


for permission to tell the FBI about a %26quot;very high interest%26quot; al-Qaida


operative who became one of the hijackers.


The official, a senior figure in the CIA%26#039;s Osama bin Laden unit,


said he sought authorization on July 13, 2001, to send information


to the FBI but got no response for 10 days, then asked again.


As it turned out, the information on Khalid al-Mihdhar did not reach


the FBI until late August. At the time, CIA officers needed


permission from a special unit before passing certain intelligence


on to the FBI.


The official was identified only as John. His written testimony was


read into the record.


%26quot;John%26#039;s%26quot; testimony was part of the defense%26#039;s case that federal


authorities missed multiple opportunities to catch hijackers and


perhaps thwart the 9/11 plot.


His testimony included an e-mail sent by FBI supervisor Michael


Maltbie discussing Moussaoui but playing down his terrorist


connections. Maltbie%26#039;s e-mail said %26quot;there%26#039;s no indication that


(Moussaoui) had plans for any nefarious activity.%26quot;


He sent that e-mail to the CIA even after receiving a lengthy memo


from the FBI agent who arrested Moussaoui and suspected him of being


a terrorist with plans to hijack aircraft.


Prosecutors argue that Moussaoui, a French citizen, thwarted a prime


opportunity to track down the 9/11 hijackers and possibly unravel


the plot when he was arrested in August 2001 on immigration


violations and lied to the FBI about his al-Qaida membership and


plans to hijack a plane.


Had Moussaoui confessed, the FBI could have pursued leads that would


have led them to most of the hijackers, government witnesses have


testified.


To win the death penalty, prosecutors must first prove that


Moussaoui%26#039;s actions — specifically, his lies — were directly


responsible for at least one death on Sept. 11.


If they fail, Moussaoui would get life in prison.


___


Associated Press Writer Michael J. Sniffen contributed to this report


source:


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060327/ap_o...


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What is the relationship between 911 and Saddam?
I think Hillery Clinton summarized Saddam%26#039;s relationship with 9/11 best ..


In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.%26quot;


Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002


As a sanctuary and an aid to al qaeda the threat of WMD including nuclear possibilities made him an important target for the well being of the US and the world. Afghanistan alone is not a threat , it did not have the capabilities of Iraq which is why both areas became targets..
Reply:interesting quote Report It

Reply:Face it folks, President Bush has worked to do what is in the best interest of the United States of American. Not the UN!! Report It

Reply:There is no connection between Iraq and 9/11.


This quote doesn%26#039;t even claim that there is.


To do so would be misleading at best. Report It

Reply:Looks like Hillary was drinking the same KoolAid Colin Powell was served by the Bushies. Report It

Reply:You Americans are pigs...blindly accusing others of faults while you yourselves are the greatest threat to world peace. Watch Iran sink your ships and drive you out of the desert. Report It

Reply:Not true..Not good answer.. Report It

Reply:Saddam Hussein%26#039;s former position being AGAINST Al Qaeda has gone on record on multiple occasions. By the way, President Bush hasn%26#039;t done anything to benefit the best interest of America, unless you consider benefit as ruining our economy and image in the world. Report It

Reply:@ ELITE: You%26#039;re saying that we people of the United States point the finger too much, yet you can state that while pointing your finger at Americans as a whole? I%26#039;m sorry, the last time I was in the Middle East, I just couldn%26#039;t stop accusing everyone of faults. I just can%26#039;t help it. Report It

Reply:I%26#039;m a citizen of the United States yet I%26#039;m not a threat to world peace or one to be accusing anybody of faults except for you right now, who appears to have a somewhat biased and deluted insight of people here. Report It

Reply:Our government has made many questionable moves indeed, but to accuse all individuals in this country of playing some direct role in that and what%26#039;s been happening abroad is simply ludicrous. Report It

Reply:So, I ask you, please look at your own lack of insight before judging the insight of others, as you%26#039;re clearly acting just as blindly as you claim all of us Americans are. Thank you. Report It

Reply:LOOOONNNNNGGGGGG QUESTION THERE BUDDY. Report It

Reply:Bush and Oil? Perhaps!!!! Report It

Reply:This whole thing is the most ridiculous, stereotypically American post I%26#039;ve ever seen. Please don%26#039;t support the world%26#039;s current view of you. Report It

Reply:There was no relation between Saddam and 911 what so ever


reed the new book for George Tenet to see that the administration fabricate the information to attack iraq Report It

Reply:Since we all know the Bush Administration and Hillary Clinton to be full of complete and utter nonsense, why are people still supporting them? Face it everyone, you can%26#039;t think for yourselves and you are moved by unfounded fear. Report It

Reply:If Hilliary Clinton said what the Best Answerer said she did, then Hilliary is as big a liar as her husband and George Bush are. In 2002, a lot of lies were being told about Saddam having nukes and other WMDs, and having a connection to Al Quaeda. All of it was false. Report It

Reply:Elohimself....





Saddam had 500 tons of nuclear material...


more than enough to make several nukes..


Yes he didnt have the centrifuges, but it wouldnt take much more..





Reality is he would be nuclear by now if we hadnt gone in anyway..





Even without BUSH, there was more than enough reason to go in. Report It

Reply:The %26quot;big lie about Sadaam%26#039;s connection to alQaeda %26amp; 911,%26quot; big oil interests, %26amp; the fear of a nuclear mushroom cloud, were all used by Bush43 %26amp; the Neocons to mislead the US people and our elected representatives into going into Iraq %26amp; the Vietnam-like nightmare. Report It

Reply:how did you fit that in there Report It

Reply:you expect me to read all that? Report It

Reply:both sides are nuts on this.





We was right to go after saddam, and there is no connection between 911 %26amp; saddam other than:





Terrorism isnt just alqueda.


Saddam needed to be eliminated as he did in fact hide wmd in Syria (recently proven btw). Report It

Reply:he paid for the flying lessons.
Reply:Nothing really. Saddam was perceived to be a threat due the possibility that he had weapons of mass destruction. Maybe he did. Todays nuclear weapons can be transported in a tractor trailer and then easily burried in the desert. So we may never know. However, unless you buy the weapons, nuclear weapons require a little more obvious construction processes and these were never known to exist. Iran has this and Iran does knowingly support terrorist. If we let Iran get nuclear weaponry, they will definitely supply terrorist. This cannot be allowed to happen. This is about survival. Saddam was his own terrorist. He probaly would not support terrorist for they are the competition to him.
Reply:Nothing really.





Unless the question is a joke, in which case...


If you call Saddam and 911 at the same time which one would get there quicker? lol.
Reply:Nothing
Reply:NONE .
Reply:None, GW Bush wanted to get Saddam because Saddam threatened to kill G Bush Sr during the first Gulf War.
Reply:nothing, although what he was doing was wrong, saddam was just a divescapegoat for 911.





someone america could blame and take anger for what happened for 911.
Reply:There was none, nor did anybody ever claim that. It is sometimes used as a %26quot;straw man%26quot; argument.





To be very specific, there was collusion between Sadaam and his regime with various terrorist organizations, including Al Quaeda. However, Sadaam nor his officials were not in on the plot which was Al Queda alone.
Reply:911 took place, Saddam rejoiced over the aftermath, and that is the only relationship between the two.....KECK
Reply:you call the police when u see him
Reply:They were both used by the Republicans to distract the American people from what was really going on in the U.S., namely the erosion of civil rights, the destruction of the environment, the pillaging of the national treasury by all of the rich Republicans and their friends, etc..
Reply:Nothing, but he was supporting terrorism.
Reply:read %26quot;The Connection%26quot; by Stephan F Hayes
Reply:Saddam is the person that we use to call him, the master mind.He and Osama Bin Ladin maybe were together and plan to take over the United States of America. I wish that people don%26#039;t do that to other people like U.S.A because they might be an another war.(war world 3)I just want to say that don%26#039;t be a bossy or else I%26#039;m gonna kick your ***.
Reply:Saddam helped payroll this emergency number in place here in America, which gave rise to a show hosted by William Shatner.


Reason enough to go to war indeed!



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