Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2263-1001265869-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 23 Sep 2001 10:25:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 24589 invoked by uid 510); 23 Sep 2001 17:24:52 -0000 Received: from n30.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.80) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 23 Sep 2001 17:24:52 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2263-1001265869-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by ho.egroups.com with NNFMP; 23 Sep 2001 17:24:29 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 23 Sep 2001 17:24:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 55306 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2001 17:24:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 Sep 2001 17:24:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 23 Sep 2001 17:24:28 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id KAA09989 for iwar@onelist.com; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 10:24:28 -0700 Message-Id: <200109231724.KAA09989@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 10:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Was.there.an.Iraqi.connection?] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [FC - Note that this is not an attributable source] 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 ------------------------ Yahoo! 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