Realist,
Frankly, I don't know why I even bother--it's clear in your personal Support the Terrorists world, you are very selective which facts you think "prove" your point and facts which you totally ignore.
Regarding you proud assertion that there was absolutely NO connection between Iraq/Saddam/911, todays WSJ addresses just that. Deroy Murdock, Sr. Fellow at Atlas Econmic Research writes this:
1. US prosecutors indcted Iraqi Abdul Rahman Yasin for crafting the bomb that exploded beneath the World Trade Center in February, 1993, killing six and injuring 1042. ABC News repored in July 1994 that Yasin returned after the blas to live freely in Iraq. Arabic-laguage papers discovered in Tikrit, Iraq confirm this.
2. After running an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, Abu Musab al Zarqawi reportedly fled the sinking Taliban, then received medical attention and convalesced in Baghdad for two months. He then opened an Ansar al-Islam base in northern Iraq and arranged the October 2002 assassination of US diplomat Lawrence Foley in Amman, Jordan.
3. Phillippine authorities expelled Iraqi diplomat Hisham al Hussein in February 2003, after cell phone records showed he chatted with leaders of Abu Sayyaf, just before and just after this al-Aqeda franchise detonated a bomb in Zamboanga City on Oct. 2, 2002. It killed three, including U.S. soldier Mark Wayne Jackson.
4. the March 19 Washington Times reported on a 20-page Arabic-language document from the Iraqui Intelligence Service. Stamped "top secret," it lists IIS "collaborators, among them "the Saudi Osama bin Laden." It says he is a "Saudi businessman and is in charge of the Saudi opposition in Afghanistan...And he is in good relationship with our section in Syria. Signed "Jabar," the 1993 record appeared authentic to a US official who reviewed it."
Beyond THAT, YOU post the "links" which positively show that no meetings referenced above "took place." I'd be very interested to see the "proof" that a meeting(s) "never took place."
