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>Conner must not have read a single word of the >rhetoric coming from the imams, ayatollahs and mullahs >for the last 35 years, and must not have seen OBL and >followers bragging about the 9/11 attacks and >promising more, or have read Iraq's state controlled >newspaper articles praising Al Qaeda, or seen the CNN >article from 2/13/99 reporting that Saddam offered OBL >asylum in Iraq: > ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9902/13/afghan >.binladen/">http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9902/13/ >afghan.binladen/</a> > >Or seen this article, quoting articles in the LA Times >and Newsweek he also didn't see, and Iraq's state >controlled newpaper, run by Saddam's son Uday Hussein: > >"Throughout the 1990s, the Iraqi regime hosted Popular >Islamic Conferences in Baghdad, gatherings modeled >after conferences Turabi hosted in Khartoum. Mark >Fineman, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, >attended one of the conferences and filed a story >about his experience on January 26, 1993. "There are >delegates from the most committed Islamic >organizations on Earth," he wrote. "Afghan mujahedeen >(holy warriors), Palestinian militants, Sudanese >fundamentalists, the Islamic Brotherhood and >Pakistan's Party of Islam." Newsweek's Christopher >Dickey attended the same conference and wrote about it >in 2002. "Islamic radicals from all over the Middle >East, Africa, and Asia converged on Baghdad," he >wrote, "to show their solidarity with Iraq in the face >of American aggression. . . . Every time I hear >diplomats and politicians, whether in Washington or >the capitals of Europe, declare that Saddam Hussein is >a 'secular Baathist ideologue' who has nothing to do >with Islamists or terrorist calls to jihad, I think of >that afternoon and I wonder what they're talking >about. If that was not a fledgling Qaeda itself at the >Rashid convention, it sure was Saddam's version of >it." > >Iraqi leaders frequently touted their Islamist >credentials. "We are blessed in this country for >having the Islamic holy warrior Saddam Hussein as a >leader, who is guiding the country in a religious holy >war against the infidels and nonbelievers," said Izzat >Ibrahim al-Douri, one of Saddam's top deputies, in an >address to the terrorist confab. On August 27, 1998, >20 days after al Qaeda attacked the U.S. embassies in >Africa, Babel, the government newspaper run by >Saddam's son Uday Hussein, published an editorial >proclaiming Osama bin Laden "an Arab and Islamic >hero." > >None of this is a secret, as the press coverage >attests. But the authors of the Senate report seem >determined to write it out of the history. On what >basis do the authors claim that Saddam Hussein was >"resistant" to cooperation with Islamists? The finding >is sourced to "postwar detainee debriefs--including >debriefs of Saddam Hussein and Tariq Aziz." Well then, >that settles it." > ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Arti >cles/000/000/012/710goolj.asp">http://www.weeklystandar >d.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/710goolj.asp< >/a> > >But what does any of the above matter--John Conner's >got a website and conspiracy theories to peddle. > >Bonaduce was right on the mark: "Who the *beep* are >YOU?" > > > by ancatdoh (Wed Dec 20 2006 06:57:05) Ignore this >User | Report Abuse > > >------------------------------------------------------- >------------------------- > >Yeah, I'm keenly aware of all that. What it has to do >with the stupid idea that 9/11 was an "inside job" is >a mystery wrapped in an enigma inside a riddle hidden >in Michael Moore's rolls of flab. > >My perspectives on the ME come from the fact that I >was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1962, while my dad was >a Foreign Area Specialist attached to the US embassy >from 1960 to 1964. He wrote and spoke fluent arabic >and traveled throughout the region. > >I've been reading up on ME history and geopolitics my >whole life, and have not limited myself to the simple >minded pablum vomited up by US media sources and the >rantings of crank websites. > >How many books (with no pictures) about ME history, >culture and geopolitics translated from Arabic and >Farsi by the US State Department have you read? > >I've read over 400. > >YES, bin Laden was a CIA operative, and at the time, >the Cold War was in full swing. His motivation was to >throw Communist invaders out of an Islamic nation, >which served US strategic interests just as providing >weapons and aid to Stalin during WWII served US >strategic interests at that time. It's called >geopolitics. > >Bin Laden turned on the Saudi government when they >refused to allow him to try to expel Saddam from >Kuwait using jihadism. Bin Laden was told "Kuwait is >not Afghanistan." He became even more enraged when the >Saudis asked for the US to come to Saudi Arabia to >protect it from Saddam's Army, allowing "infidels," >(US and all other non-Muslims) to tread upon the same >sacred land where Mecca and Medina are. Bin Laden >turned on the US for the transgression of coming to >Saudi Arabia and basing troops there with the blessing >of the Saudi royal family. > >It's all about religion for bin Laden. That's all he >talks about, and all that motivates his demented >followers. > >Hate Bush? I don't really give a rat's bootie. The WTC >was attacked for the first time in 1993, and Al Qaeda >attacked US bases and embassies in the ME half a dozen >times during Clinton's two terms. Was Clinton in on it >too? > >Anybody who thinks Al Qeada and other Islamic terror >groups conspired with the US goverment to do 9/11 is >an idiot who willfully ignores the rhetoric and >actions of Islamic fundamentalists for the last 35 >years in favor of the verbal flatulence of Conner and >the teenie bopper blame-America-first whining of >Michael Moore.

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