Posted by
Tom G. on Friday, March 14, 2008 12:01:41 PM
The Lies by the MEDIA just continue to build as it relates to the Connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. ABC and the other media, including the NYTIMES, were fast to claim that the Pentegon Report presented this week clears Iraq and Al Qaeda from connection to each other. The MEDIA shows great laziness at best and pure bias at worst, by ignoring the actual language of the Report. Certainly the report itself claims no support for a SMOKING GUN, but the report itself also provides numerous examples of cooperation and support between the two.
Yet, by claiming no SMOKING GUN the impression is left in the mind of the MEDIA and thus in the mind of the reader that IRAQ and Al QAEDA did not work together and in assosiation and use surrogates to propogate common goals.
Nothing even close can be substantiated if you care to read the report yourself, all 59 pages. Because if you choose to do your own research and not accept the MEDIA lie of the report you would find this...(thank you Steven Hayes for your insight)
"Captured Iraqi documents have uncovered evidence that links the regime of Saddam Hussein to regional and global terrorism, including a variety of revolutionary, liberation, nationalist and Islamic terrorist organizations. While these documents do not reveal direct coordination and assistance between the Saddam regime and the al Qaeda network, they do indicate that Saddam was willing to use, albeit cautiously, operatives affiliated with al Qaeda as long as Saddam could have these terrorist-operatives monitored closely. Because Saddam's security organizations and Osama bin Laden's terrorist network operated with similar aims (at least in the short term), considerable overlap was inevitable when monitoring, contacting, financing, and training the same outside groups. This created both the appearance of and, in some way, a "de facto" link between the organizations. At times, these organizations would work together in pursuit of shared goals but still maintain their autonomy and independence because of innate caution and mutual distrust. Though the execution of Iraqi terror plots was not always successful, evidence shows that Saddam’s use of terrorist tactics and his support for terrorist groups remained strong up until the collapse of the regime."
I would recommend you reading the report...
.http://a.abcnews.com/images/pdf/Pentagon_Report_V1.pdf
Books have been writen detailing the connections and support. The facts are abundantly clear considering the vast support offered and provided by Saddam Hussein and IRAQ to various Terrorist groups including Al Qaeda and groups associated, supported and allied with them.