Once again I will just refer our readers to an article concerning the connections between Iraq and Al Qaida only because I don’t care to get into the same old arguments. The connection, at its roots, concerns a meeting between Iraqi intelligence and members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad whose leader is one Ayman al-Zawahiri.
This information comes in the form of some of the released captured documents to which The Weekly Standard journalist Stephen Hayes has discussed recently. One document details this meeting that occured after the World Trade Center was attacked in 1993 partially by the EIJ.
Why won’t I discuss this other than to avoid a tedious debate? Frankly, most of this information has become null and void because the war in Iraq has already been waged. Also the 9/11 Commission decided to weigh in on the matter and found a link between Iraq and Al Qaida was inconclusive. Of course that’s the same Commission which failed to report upon Able Danger and the same Commission that was never tasked with investigating Iraq. Even so, the arguments for and against such a connection haven’t changed over the course of two years and both sides do not give any leeway.
The American Thinker piece written by Ray Robison, is a Sr. Military Operations Research Analyst.
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The “American Thinker” article based its ‘facts’ off of an utterly bogus fake news website by Brent Bozell.
Comment by Joe Cypherpunk — Monday, February 20, 2006 @ 9:53 pm UTC
Actually, no, the article on The American Thinker was written by someone who adds his name “to the list of those who authenticate the documents.” He is a former employee of ISG which worked with the documents. I imagine he knows more about the documents than, say, you or I do.
Other than that, we can debate the conclusions from the documents and I suspect we will if they ever are given the light of day and I think we should.
Comment by Chad Evans — Monday, February 20, 2006 @ 10:09 pm UTC