[iwar] [fc:Was.there.an.Iraqi.connection?]

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From: "Iraqi Activists"
Subject: Was there an Iraqi connection?
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:32:20 -0400

Was there an Iraqi connection?

The Iraqi Activists-September 22, 2001

Mohammad Atta the prime suspect in the September 11 attack on the WTC in
fact met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Europe earlier this year. 
Another meeting was also arranged between the Iraqi's ambassador to
Turkey in 1998, but the same sources tell us that Bin Laden had met with
other inelegance officer and officials of many other countries including
frequent meetings between him and the Pakistanis! So far the information
leaked from the State Department cast a doubt on such involvement but
would not outright denies any connection.  It seems the officials in the
State Department would not rule out of such possibility because of one
reason; the complexity of such attacks required state trained men and
expertise.  In the past ten years, the Iraqi intelligence in Europe had
limited success sponsoring terrorist attacks.  Press reports stated
that, according to a defecting Iraqi intelligence agent, the Iraqi
intelligence service had planned to bomb the offices of Radio Free
Europe in Prague.  Radio Free Europe offices include Radio Liberty,
which began broadcasting news and information to Iraq in October 1998. 
The plot was foiled when it became public in early 1999. 

Again, the difficulty involved in planning the attack on US Cole
suggested state involvement and Iraq was singled out because of the
nature of the operation.  The Guardian in its editorial of October 19,
2000 concluded that the investigators uncovered evidence suggesting the
bomb attack on the warship USS Cole had been a meticulously organized
conspiracy and a leading US terrorism expert thought it may have been
the first joint operation between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. 
Whereas, The Paris-based weekly Al-Watan al-Arabi, considered friendly
to Saudi Arabia, reported at the same time that Iraq was involved in the
October 12 attack on the U.S.S.  Cole.  It reported that Iraqi
intelligence received the explosive used in the attack from Russia, and
the Iraqis transported the material to Yemen, in collusion with senior
officials of the Yemeni regime.  The report repeats some of the same
charges made two weeks before that in the same magazine, which explained
again that it was such a massive operation and was so carefully planned,
that it was virtually impossible for a terrorist group to have carried
out the attack without state support. 

A passport found on one of the bombers of the U.S.  embassies in Africa
in 1998 believed to have been disappeared from Kuwait during the 1990
Iraqi invasion of that country cast another connection between Iraq and
Bin Ladin.  But the men that carried out this attack came from Jordan
and Saudi Arabia, both had strong ties with the 1990 invasion of Kuwait
and could have obtained these passports during the chaotic aftermath. 
The State Department annual reports of the last a few years on state
sponsored terrorism cast no connection between Iraq and Bin Ladin! Iraq
mainly hostes several terrorist groups, which described as Palestinian
rejectionists, "Iraq continues to provide safehaven to a variety of
Palestinian rejectionist groups, including the Abu Nidal organization,
the Arab Liberation Front (ALF), and the former head of the now-defunct
15 May Organization, Abu Ibrahim, who masterminded several bombings of
US aircraft" Bin Laden network primarily include; The Egyptian groups
Al-Jihad and Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya, the Pakistani Islamic group Harakat
Al-Mujahideen, and the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front (FIS).  Iranian
backed Islamic groups such as Hizb Al Da'wa and the Lebanese Hizballah
should be excluded from this list for one reason! Bin Ladin belongs to
the Wah'habi religious sect, which is in effect the archenemy of the
She'as. 

The Iraqi intelligence focused primarily on the antiregime opposition
groups both at home and abroad these days and also busy building a
network of bogus companies to import parts and electronic components for
the state run military industries, but one cannot rule out their
involvement entirely, and its too early to make such a blanket statement
at this time. 

Saad Farage
The Iraqi Activists

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