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Watch a 1999 ABC News Clip Connecting OBL & Saddam

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Watch a 1999 ABC News Clip Connecting OBL & Saddam



(GO TO THE LINKED PAGE AND CLICK ON THIS PICTURE OF OBL & SADDAM AND THE REALMEDIA VIDEO CLIP OF THE ABC NEWS REPORT WILL OPEN. IT IS ABOUT 2:40 LONG.)

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040617.asp#1

Hayes also cited a January 1999 ABC story and, utilizing the MRC video archive, I tracked it down. The above-quoted MacVicar piece aired Thursday, January 14, 1999 on the short-lived ABC prime time magazine program, Crime and Justice. This one-topic edition, which featured John Miller’s interview in Afghanistan with Osama bin Laden, carried the title, “Target America: The Terrorist War.” Anchor Cynthia McFadden’s plug for the hour predicted the danger ahead: “Tonight, an exclusive ABC News interview with the man who declared war on the United States: Terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. His loyal foot soldiers are even here in the U.S., hidden among us, awaiting his call to deadly action.”

Sheila MacVicar, who a short time later jumped to CNN, and I believe she has recently departed from CNN, provided an overview of the bin Laden-Hussein relationship: “Saddam Hussein has a long history of harboring terrorists. Carlos the Jackal, Abu Nidal, Abu Abbas, the most notorious terrorists of their era, all found shelter and support at one time in Baghdad. Intelligence sources say bin Laden's long relationship with the Iraqis began as he helped Sudan's fundamentalist government in their efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
“Three weeks after the bombing [by the U.S. in Sudan], on August 31, bin Laden reaches out to his friends in Iraq and Sudan. [over video of Iraqi man cheek to cheek with Sudanese men] Iraq's Vice President arrives in Khartoum to show his support for the Sudanese after the U.S. attack. ABC News has learned that during these meetings, senior Sudanese officials, acting on behalf of bin Laden, ask if Saddam Hussein would grant him asylum.
“Iraq was, indeed, interested. ABC News has learned that in December, an Iraqi intelligence chief, named Farouk Hijazi, now Iraq's ambassador to Turkey, made a secret trip to Afghanistan to meet with bin Laden. Three intelligence agencies tell ABC News they cannot be certain what was discussed, but almost certainly, they say, bin Laden has been told he would be welcome in Baghdad.”

A CNN-posted story by MacVicar with a picture of her: CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News

A fan site, apparently, that I came across via Google: home.wanadoo.nl

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040617.asp#1


http://www.mediaresearch.org/VideoBias/vidbias.asp
 
Who uses realplayer?:doh
 
Watch a 1999 ABC News Clip Connecting OBL & Saddam

It’s a fake, everyone knows One Iraq, Two Iraq, Three Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

There was peace and prosperity under Clinton, and NO war.

“Never before has our nation enjoyed, at once, so much prosperity and social progress with so little internal crisis and so few external threats.” (2000 State of the Union Address Thursday, January 27, 2000)

“War? We ain't got no war! We don't need no war! I don't have to show you any stinking war!” {Bill Clinton 1998}

http://www.debatepolitics.com/archives/2947-see-no-evil.html

WARNING: the following between {} is more gratuitous posting:

{March 1997: “Though Bin Ladin had promised Taliban leaders that he would be circumspect, he broke this promise almost immediately, giving an inflammatory interview to CNN in March 1997. The Taliban leader Mullah Omar promptly "invited" Bin Ladin to move to Kandahar, ostensibly in the interests of Bin Ladin's own security but more likely to situate him where he might be easier to control.73
There is also evidence that around this time Bin Ladin sent out a number of feelers to the Iraqi regime, offering some cooperation. None are reported to have received a significant response. According to one report, Saddam Hussein's efforts at this time to rebuild relations with the Saudis and other Middle Eastern regimes led him to stay clear of Bin Ladin.74“(The 9/11 commission report, page 65-66)
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
details

July 1997: “Those who desire to face up to the Zionists conspiracies, intransigence, and aggressiveness must proceed towards the advance centers of capabilities in the greater Arab homeland and to the centers of the knowledge, honesty and sincerity with whole heartiness if the aim was to implement a serious plan to save others from their dilemma or to rely on those capable centers; well-known for their positions regarding the enemy, to gain precise concessions from it with justified maneuvers even if such centers including Baghdad not in agreement with those concerned, over the objectives and aims of the required maneuvers." (On the 29th anniversary of Iraq’s national day (the 17th of July 1968 revolution). President Saddam Hussein made an important comprehensive and nation wide address) http://southmovement.alphalink.com.au/countries/Iraq/speech.htm

February 17, 1998: “While speaking at the Pentagon on February 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton warned of the ‘reckless acts of outlaw nations and an unholy axis of terrorists, drug traffickers and organized international criminals.’ These ‘predators of the twenty-first century,’ he said ‘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.’“ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Desert_Fox
Text Of Clinton Statement On Iraq - February 17, 1998

February 23, 1998: One (“The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people…”), Two (“despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance…”), Three (“if the Americans' aims behind these wars are religious and economic, the aim is also to serve the Jews' petty state and divert attention from its occupation of Jerusalem and murder of Muslims there. The best proof of this is their eagerness to destroy Iraq…”)! World Islamic Front Statement Urging Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders

“Throughout the year, the Taliban continued to host Usama Bin Ladin--indicted in November 1998 for the bombings of two US Embassies in East Africa--despite US and UN sanctions, a unanimously adopted United Security Council resolution, and other international pressure to deliver him to stand trial in the United States or a third country. The United States repeatedly made clear to the Taliban that they will be held responsible for any terrorist acts undertaken by Bin Ladin while he is in their territory.”
http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/1999report/asia.html#Afghanistan

September 11, 2001

Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General…David Muller, South Movement, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia”
Workers World Oct. 4, 2001: Join a new anti-war coalition

“On the basis of what we said about Iraq while confronting aggressions, the world now needs to abort the US aggressive schemes, including its aggression on the Afghan people, which must stop.
Again we say that when someone feels that he is unjustly treated, and no one is repulsing or stopping the injustice inflicted on him, he personally seeks ways and means for lifting that justice. Of course, not everyone is capable of finding the best way for lifting the injustice inflicted on him. People resort to what they think is the best way according to their own ideas, and they are not all capable of reaching out for what is beyond what is available to arrive to the best idea or means.
To find the best way, after having found their way to God and His rights, those who are inflicted by injustice need not to be isolated from their natural milieu, or be ignored deliberately, or as a result of mis-appreciation, by the officials in this milieu. They should, rather, be reassured and helped to save themselves, and their surroundings. It is only normal to say that punishment is a necessity in our world, because what is a necessity in the other world must also be necessary in our world on Earth. But, the punishment in the other world is faire and just, and the prophets and messengers of God (peace be upon them all) conducted punishment and called for it in justice, and not on the basis of suspicions and whims.” (Saddam Hussein Shabban 13, 1422 H. October 29, 2001.)

“Once again, we say that, injustice and the pressure that results from it on people lead to explosions. As explosions are not always organized, it is to be expected that they may harm those who make them and others. The events of September 11, should be seen on this basis, and on the basis of imbalanced reactions, on the part of governments accused of being democratic, if the Americans are sure that these were carried out by people from abroad.
To concentrate not on what is important, but rather on what is the most important, we say again that after having seen that the flames of any fire can expand to cover all the world, it first and foremost, needs justice based on fairness. The best and most sublime expression of this is in what we have learned from what God the Al Mighty ordered to be, or not to be.” (Saddam Hussein Shabban 13, 1422 H. October 29, 2001.)

Tell me, who are the magical “they” that Saddam said “should, rather, be reassured and helped to save themselves, and their surroundings?”}
 
DC

This isn't about Clinton. It's about ABC. Are you saying that ABC didn't say these things? Do you think ABC was lying about the information they got from the Clinton Administration?
 
DC

This isn't about Clinton. It's about ABC. Are you saying that ABC didn't say these things? Do you think ABC was lying about the information they got from the Clinton Administration?

It is all about politics, Mickey Mouse rhetoric (the “liberals“ who you can bet will praise the second coming of the Clintons and Camelot, whether it is PT boat hero Lurch yachting with Kennedy or Bill shaking hands, will claim ABC is a right wing nut), so it is about Clinton, it is about left and right. Show me, where did Clinton’s people condemn the connection between Al Quacka and Saddam at the time, which was just after Operation Desert Fox? Did it fit their game at the time? I have no idea where ABC got the information, or even if it is fake or not, my post was anticipative sarcasm.

I suspect naturally there would be somewhat of a time lag between real “intelligence” and what was reported in the media for January 14, 1999. The 911 commission report claims as far back as 1997 “evidence” that “Bin Ladin sent out a number of feelers to the Iraqi regime, offering some cooperation,” well, before that commission report came out I found a speech on the South Movement website where I think there may have been a call for Jihad for “Those” people “well-known for their positions regarding the enemy, to gain precise concessions from it.” Knowing who South Movement is connected to, the domestic traitors too, makes it interesting to me that only one speech of Saddam was so important during Clinton’s wars at around the time of the feelers from Al Quacka.

To me it does not matter whether Sunni Saddam had an operational relationship with Sunni Al Quacka. If Al Quacka took up a blanket call for Jihad or “holy war” to save Iraq from Iraq’s dilemma (sanctions), I have to look for Saddam to condemn the attack. If Saddam doesn’t condemn it, in my book it is his attack too, Iraq did not condemn the attack.

What do we do when someone takes up the call for “Death to America,” and a magical “they” Shiite group nukes us? Will law enforcement be enough? What if all the operators were suicide bombers? That was the question for 911, when every “liberal“ was whining about “responsibility”; how soon we forget the “liberals” against the war in Afghanistan:

“Some voices have risen on the part of some peoples, journalists, writers, and, in a very restricted way, the voices of those who are preparing themselves, in the shadow, to replace the rulers there.” (Saddam Hussein Shabban 13, 1422 H. October 29, 2001.)

“Newsweek magazine reported an Arab intelligence officer, reported to know Saddam personally, told Newsweek: ‘very soon, you will be witnessing large-scale terrorist activity by the Iraqis.’ The planned attacks were said to be Saddam's revenge for the ‘continuing aggression‘ posed by the no fly zones that show the countries are still at war since Operation Desert Fox.”
Bombing of Iraq (December 1998) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Update: Summary of Recent EmergencyNet News Reports on Osama Bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda Organization - 01 Jan 99 to 05 Jan 99

Once Clinton bombed all the WMD, and almost ran out of cruise missiles (embers?), only Saddam’s support for terror could be a major “moral” reason for continued Rhodes scholar butt buddy Wesley Clark’s “cork in the bottle” containment.

“Yes, vanity needs to be confronted, and the oppressor needs to be confronted, just as those who find it easy to commit evil deeds and throw embers at people, need to be confronted. On the basis of what we said about Iraq while confronting aggressions, the world now needs to abort the US aggressive schemes, including its aggression on the Afghan people, which must stop.” (Saddam Hussein Shabban 13, 1422 H. October 29, 2001.)

Teaching the kids about pronouns? Ask the kiddies who the pronoun people are, who Saddam in response to 911 said, “should, rather, be reassured and helped to save themselves, and their surroundings?”
 
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security."

-- Hillary Clinton, October 10, 2002
 
Watch a 1999 ABC News Clip Connecting OBL & Saddam
Stephen Hayes has been trying to make "the connection" for years. every time he writes about anything, the usual suspects cite him, hopping aboard the ghost train to nowhere. and every time, it gets debunked for the crap that it is.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/archives/7163-terrorist-trained-iraq.html

http://www.debatepolitics.com/archives/5620-new-documents-saddam-hid-wmd.html

http://www.debatepolitics.com/archives/7186-new-saddam-documents-detail-terror-training.html
 
It’s a fake, everyone knows
There was peace and prosperity under Clinton, and NO war.

If this were true, then I guess my brother really wasn't shot at by the forces of Saddam Hussein during the 90's. I guess that whole "Bosnia " thing was really just some fancy computer imagery, and my youngest sisters ex-boyfriend wasn't really a political refugee from Bosnia, he was just a happy foreign exchange student who's buddies in the other two buses that were coming with him, but haven't seen since the three buses were separated by mythical gun-toting humans, really didn't exist. And I guess we didn't actually bomb a Chinese embassy late in his presidency during a bombing campaign in the balkans that didn't exist. And the first WTC bombing was really just a case of a can of hairspray getting run over by a bicycle. And of course, we didn't have any embassies in Africa get suicide bombed. And of course, the hole in the USS Cole was really just a welding accident from a unapproved local contractor. And oh yeah, we didn't ever bomb Iraq during Clinton's presidency, ever. And that whole thing about a turbaned bearded man declaring war on the US? Didn't happen.

Thanks for clearing that all up :)
 
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