posted on September 8, 2006 11:29:34 PM new
After the fall of Afghanistan, Hussein supplied active support for Al Qaeda. Allowing them refuge and supplying them with weapons. Primarily the Ansar al-Islam faction which he used to promote his war on the Kurds. He bumped off 200,000 Kurds with some of those nasty weapons he didn't have.
posted on September 9, 2006 06:01:43 AM new
Um, some confusion here. Ansar Al Islam is a radical Kurdish group, indigenous to Iraq. They are indeed Taliban supporters and some think they have ties to Al Qaeda. They're pro Hussein. Their group was founded in 2001. Hussein's campaign against the Kurds took place in the 80's, way before the fall of Afghanistan, and the gas he used then came from us. He was our pal back then.
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posted on September 9, 2006 07:05:49 AM new
When BUSHY invaded Iraq about 75% of Americans believed Iraq was linked with Al Qaeda and 9/11.
After the LIES BUSHY'S administration told America have been EXPOSED and PROVEN to be FLAT-OUT LIES. Now only 46% of Americans still believe Iraq,Al Qaeda and 9/11 were linked together.
I am sure many of the remaining 46% have not paid attention or DENY THE TRUTH ABOUT THE EXPOSED PROVEN LIES FROM BUSHY AND HIS ADMINISTRATION.
BECAUSE BUSH LIED OVER 2,667 AMERICAN TROOPS DIED to date while AMERICA IS STILL COUNTING.
posted on September 9, 2006 11:58:37 AM new
Ansar Al Islam is al Qaeda, owes allegiance to them and is funded by them. After 9/11 they were forced out of Afghanistan and Hussein took them in, supplied them and supported them in their attacks in Kurdistan.
And the nerve agents and weaponized alfatoxins used against the Kurds were home grown.
posted on September 9, 2006 01:44:15 PM newAnsar Al Islam is al Qaeda, owes allegiance to them and is funded by them..
Their mullah has denied this repeatedly. He's also denied connections to Saddam. The claims of Al Qaeda support are all from the PUK and KDP. Ansar Al Islam has never claimed more than a few hundred total members, mostly located in remote regions of N. Iraq. If this is the the only Hussein-Al Qaeda connection, it's pretty tenuous.
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posted on September 9, 2006 02:33:15 PM new
Posted below is just a tiny bit of what the SIC report has to say about Ansar Al-Islam and the so called Iraq Al Qaeda connection. I copied it from page 113 of the report, which is available in pdf format here:
...Prewar assessments reported on Iraqi Intelligence
Service (IIS) infiltrations of the group, but noted uncertainty regarding the
purpose of the infiltrations. Postwar information reveals that Baghdad
viewed Ansar al-Islam as a threat to the regime and that the IIS attempted to
collect intelligence on the group. Prewar Intelligence Community assessments
noted that al-Qa'ida fighters had relocated to northern Iraq after the start of US
military action in Afghanistan, hosted by a Kurdish extremist group Ansar al-
Islam. The assessments said Baghdad reportedly had contact with the group,
including IIS infiltrations, but noted that the Intelligence Community could not
determine the frequency or purpose of the contact, including whether they were for
collection or cooperation. Postwar information indicates that Iraqi intelligence
activities were not cooperative; rather, they were directed at collecting intelligence
against Ansar al-Islam, which operated in northeastern Iraq, an area outside regime
control. A May 2002 11s document indicates that the regime was concerned that
the United States would use the presence of Ansar al-Islam in northern Iraq to
support claims of links between the regime and al-Qa'ida.
)Conclusion 7: Postwar information supports prewar
Intelligence Community assessments that there was no credible information
that Iraq was complicit in or had foreknowledge of the September 11attacks
or any other al-Qa'ida strike. These assessments discussed two leads which
raised the possibility of ties between Iraqi officials and two of the September
11hijackers. Postwar findings support CIA'S January 2003 assessment,
which judged that "the most reliable reporting casts doubt" on one of the
leads, an alleged meeting between Muhammad Atta and an Iraqi intelligence
officer in Prague, and confirm that no such meeting occurred. Prewar
intelligence reporting cast doubt on the other lead as well. Czech intelligence
reporting in the fall of 200 1 alleged a meeting in Prague between September 1 1
hijacker Muhammad Atta and the Iraqi Intelligence Services Chief in Prague,
Ahmed al-Ani, in 2001. Prewar assessments described reporting on the Atta lead
as contradictory and unverified. In September 2002, CIA assessed that some
evidence asserted that the two met, and some cast doubt on the possibility. By
January 2003, CIA assessed that "the most reliable reporting casts doubt on this...
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