The Iraq Bin-Laden Connection?

[Real World]

Now I'm not of the position that these two shared a summer home on the beach, but I'm not naive enough to think that they never sat down and sipped tea. I'm a big believer that most leaders thought processes include the phrase "the enemy of my enemy is a friend of mine". It's probably because I remember the end of the Cold War. Anyhow, here is an old article from Newsmax.



An Excerpt as the article has too many charactors to post:

Back on Feb. 17, 1998, Hayes notes, Clinton – speaking at the Pentagon – warned of the "reckless acts of outlaw nations and an unholy axis of terrorists, drug traffickers and organized international criminals." He said these "predators of the twenty-first century," who are America's enemies, "will be all the more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and missiles to deliver them. We simply cannot allow that to happen. There is no more clear example of this threat than Saddam Hussein's Iraq."

And later the same spring, Clinton's Justice Department prepared an indictment of al-Qaida's leader, Osama bin Laden, in which a prominent passage located in the fourth paragraph reads:

"Al-Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al-Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al-Qaeda would work cooperatively with the government of Iraq."


Another excerpt:

The Post reported: "Clarke said U.S. intelligence does not know how much of the substance was produced at al Shifa or what happened to it. But he said that intelligence exists linking bin Laden to al Shifa's current and past operators, the Iraqi nerve gas experts, and the National Islamic Front in Sudan."


Hard to tell what went on between the two, but it's also kinda hard to believe nothing went on at all.

[patsfan13]

I have posted this info and links to PDF files of Iraqi Intel Service docs of meetings between Iraqi Intel and Taliban and Al Queda the denial from some is hilarious. The don't believe Clinton Bush or Saddam Intel Service.