Leaders of 9/11 Panel Ask Cheney for Reports That Would Support Iraq-Qaeda

I don't know if this has been posted yet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/19/politics/19CAMP.html
Leaders of 9/11 Panel Ask Cheney for Reports That Would Support Iraq-Qaeda Ties

WASHINGTON, June 18 — The leaders of the Sept. 11 commission called on Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday to turn over any intelligence reports that would support the White House's insistence that there was a close relationship between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

The commission's chairman, Thomas H. Kean, and its vice chairman, Lee H. Hamilton, said they wanted to see any additional information in the administration's possession after Mr. Cheney, in a television interview on Thursday, was asked whether he knew things about Iraq's links to terrorists that the commission did not know.

"Probably," Mr. Cheney replied.

Mr. Kean and Mr. Hamilton said that, in particular, they wanted any information available to back Mr. Cheney's suggestion that one of the hijackers might have met in Prague in April 2001 with an Iraqi intelligence agent, a meeting that the panel's staff believes did not take place. Mr. Cheney said in an interview with CNBC on Thursday that the administration had never been able to prove the meeting took place but was not able to disprove it either.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday
his government warned Washington that Saddam Hussein's regime was
preparing attacks in the United States and its interests abroad - an
assertion that appears to bolster President Bush's contention that
Iraq was a threat.

"After Sept. 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation
in Iraq, the Russian special services ... received information that
officials from Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist attacks in the
United States and outside it against the U.S. military and other
interests," Putin said.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040618/D839MJ0G0.html

So here we have one of the opponents to the war saying that Saddam
actually WAS a threat to the United States.


Nuff Said!!!!!

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October came early this year! It's weaker than I even imagined it would be.

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Reveal your evidence in this earlier thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=632136