Iraq and Al Qaeda

Introduction

In e.g. the case "The Estate of John Patrick O'Neill vs. The Republic of Iraq, et al" the collaborative relationship between terrorist organization Al Qaeda and the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein (wrongly denied by the 9/11 Commission) is extensively documented.^[1] There is also evidence implicating Iraq in various deadly anti-American terrorist attacks in recent history, since the end of the first Gulf War, including the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon via hijacked Boeing airliners on September 11, 2001. Unfortunately, many people believe the myths that Al Qaeda and Iraq did not have a collaborative relationship and that Iraq was not involved with 9/11 and other anti-American terror attacks. These dangerous falsehoods prevail, just like the lie that no WMDs were found in Iraq.[2]

Motives

Following the Gulf War, the angered Iraqi regime needed committed suicide terrorists to use against America. As a secular nation, Iraq had to recruit jihadis and so Iraqi intelligence established ties to Al Qaeda in the early 1990s. While Al Qaeda received the necessary funding, support, facilities, and training, Iraq had plausible deniability and so it thought it could escape retaliation from Western powers. Both Al Qaeda and Iraq viciously hated U.S. presence in the Gulf and had other motives to strike American interests (see below). Saddam Hussein's official Iraqi media praised bin Laden an "Arab and Islamic hero" after the 1998 embassy bombings; clearly, the evidence in the timelines shows, Iraq and Al Qaeda were able to overcome their ideological differences to unite against a common enemy.

1. No-Fly zones over 2/3 of Iraq
2. The liberation of Kuwait during the Gulf War
3. Destruction during the Clinton Administration of the IIS headquarters in 1993
4. UN sanctions against Iraq prompted by the USA
5. Attempted coups against Saddam and other efforts to topple his dictatorial regime sponsored by the USA
6. Destruction of chemical weapons plants
7. Destruction of Al Qaeda training camps
8. Continued USA presence in the Gulf region
9. December 1998 four-day bombing campaign on Iraq

1987 Timeline

Autumn
SABAWI IBRAHIM AL TIKRITI and DR. IHSAN BARBOUTI attend a fuel additive company in Oklahoma City as part of weapons procurements efforts. They seek such powerful chemicals as ammonium nitrate.

1988 Timeline

• DR. IHSAN BARBOUTI plots a successful attack on Pan Am Flight 103, which explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland.
• August 11 OSAMA BIN LADEN forms Al Qaeda.

1989 Timeline

ABDUL BASIT KARIM, who later adopts the identity "RAMZI AHMED YOUSEF," works with DR. IHSAN BARBOUTI, whose job is to obtain weapons for Iraq and Libya, in the London office of the Iraqi National Oil Company. BARBOUTI ships abundant sodium cyanide to Iraq in the next few years, and his coworker KARIM/YOUSEF proceeds to use sodium cyanide in his attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.

1990 Timeline

• September 11 ABDUL BASIT KARIM, after collaborating with Iraqi occupying forces in the invasion of Kuwait in August, is issued a legitimate Iraqi passport in the name RAMZI AHMED YOUSEF. [1]
• September 13 SADDAM HUSSEIN calls for jihad against supporters of UN condemenations of Iraq. TARIQ AZIZ said Iraq doesn't have to refrain from terrorism against the U.S.A., British, or French governments.

1992 Timeline

• OSAMA BIN LADEN meets with Iraqi intelligence officers in Syria.
• AYMAN AL ZAWAHIRI meets with SADDAM HUSSEIN in Baghdad.
  
• MOHAMED SALAMEH calls his Baghdad-sponsored maternal uncle QADRI ABU BAKR up to 46 times. A senior Sunni representative of the MKO asks RAMZI YOUSEF on behalf of Bahgdad to carry out a spectacular terrorist attack inside the U.S.A. RAMZI YOUSEF then comes to the U.S.A. on a legitimate Iraqi passport issued to him on September 11, 1990. The JFK INS inspector says it "appeared to be valid and unaltered," and the 9/11 Commission Report states that "An examination of Yousef's passport by the Forensic Document Lab at INS later reveals that the date of birth has been overwritten and the passport binding has been cut and un-stitched, but no other alterations were detected." The legitimacy of his passport is also corroborated by the testimony of David Kelly.

1993 Timeline

• February 26 On the second anniversary of Kuwaiti liberation,[2] at 12:17 P.M. a 1,310 lb. bomb explodes in the World Trade Center basement, killing seven and injuring over 1,040 while failing to topple the Trade Towers in a cloud of cyanide gas as the conspirators intended.
• Iraqi WTC terrorist ABDUL YASIN flees the USA and "boogies to Baghdad," where he works for the dictatorial regime of SADDAM HUSSEIN and is paid a salary for a decade. He is still at large as of 2006 and has been personally interviewed by several Western news outlets.

1994 Timeline

• June 20 RAMZI YOUSEF, together with his father and brother and with help from Iraqi intelligence, bomb a Shi'ite Muslim Mosque in Mashad, Iran.
• RAMZI YOUSEF meets with Terry Nichols in the Philippines to provide him with bomb-making expertise. [3]

1995 Timeline

• April 19 A 5,000 lb. ammonium nitrate and nitromethane bomb explodes outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City at 9:02 A.M. at Central Daylight time, killing 168 and injuring over 800.
• TIMOTHY MCVEIGH collects several Iraqi phone numbers shortly before being arrested. HUSSAIN HASHEM AL HUSSAINI, who served in the Iraqi Republican Guard, was the "John Doe #2" who was witnessed in the company of MCVEIGH. [4] [5]

1996 Timeline

• July 17 TWA Flight 800 blows up midflight due to pre-planted plastic explosives on the 27th anniversary of the coup d'etat that brought SADDAM HUSSEIN into power. Mimicking RAMZI YOUSEF's Oplan Bojinka plot (which used delayed timer tactics like YOUSEF'S associate DR. IHSAN BARBOUTI's 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing), it is an effort to help YOUSEF get a mistrial so he could be freed and plot more attacks for Al Qaeda and Iraq. [6]

1997 Timeline

• February Osama bin Laden states, “The hearts of the Muslims are filled with hatred towards the United States of America and the American President for American conduct towards Iraq.”
  
• November OKC terrorist HUSSAIN HASHEM AL HUSSAINI expresses concerns to his psychiatrist that he would be implicated if something bad were to happen at Boston Logan Airport, where he works. Four years later, AA Flight 11 and UA Flight 175 take off from Boston Logan Airport, are hijacked, and then crashed into the North Tower and South Tower of the World Trade Center, respectively.

1998 Timeline

• February 22 The published anti-American fatwa of Bin Laden, Khalid Al Fawwaz, and Ayman al Zawahiri states “The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies – civilians and military – is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it…” They cite America's alleged "great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people" and "eagerness to destroy Iraq." They further state “The best proof of this is the Americans’ continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the [Arabian] Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, still they are helpless.”
  
• February 23 Iraq's state press warns of "consequences."
• March Awaiting execution in federal prison, TIMOTHY MCVEIGH publishes his copyrighted "Essay on Hypocrisy" which attempts to justify Iraq's stockpiling of chemical and biological weapons.
• May 1 Iraq's state press warns of "dire consequences."
• May 9 OSAMA BIN LADEN issues an anti-American fatwa, complaining about U.S.A. "aggression" in Iraq. BIN LADEN's and HUSSEIN's threats are synchronized this year.
• July 30 Iraq threatens violent action unless the UN embargo is lifted.
• August A former Iraqi army officer and an IIS agent are arrested in Pakistan before they could carry out a joint IIS/Al Qaeda plot to blow up the U.S.A. and British embassies.
  
• August 5 SADDAM HUSSEIN repeats his warnings after ousting UN weapons inspectors.
• August 7 At 10:45 A.M. local time, the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were bombed simultaneously, killing over 235 and injuring over 4,585.
• Late October The newspaper Al Quds Al Arabic mentions direct cooperation between OSAMA BIN LADEN and SADDAM HUSSEIN. It states, "President Saddam Hussein, whose country was subjected to a four day air strike, will look for support in taking revenge on the United States and Britain by cooperating with Saudi oppositionist Osama bin-Laden, whom the United States considers to be the most wanted person in the world." It also noted that the cooperation was not new: "bin-Laden was planning moving to Iraq before the recent strike."

2000 Timeline

• January Iraqi intelligence officer AHMED HIKMAT SHAKIR facilitates the travel of Al Qaeda veterans and future AA Flight 77 hijackers KHALID ALMIDHAR and NAWAF ALHAZMI to, and attends, the January 2000 Al Qaeda summit in Malaysia where 9/11 is plotted. SHAKIR worked with the plotters and executors of both WTC attacks, OKC bombing, embassy bombings, and USS Cole attacks as documented by his list of contacts and communication records. [1]
• Saudi Arabia is on nation-wide alert after Saudi intelligence learns that Iraq is collaborating with Al Qaeda to attack U.S.A. interests there.
  
• Spring Future UA Flight 175 pilot MARWAN ALSHEHHI and future UA Flight 93 pilot ZIAD SAMIR JARRAH meet with Mukhabarat officers in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. [2]
• May 30 MOHAMED ATTA meets Iraqi spy AHMED AL-ANI in Prague.
• June 2 MOHAMED ATTA meets Iraqi spy AHMED AL-ANI in Prague.
• October 12 A small boat packed with explosives strikes the side of the USS Cole at 11:18 A.M. local time. Ibrahim al-Thawr and Abdullah al-Misawa kill themselves as well as 17 U.S.A. Navy sailors, and injure 39 others. SADDAM HUSSEIN is very impressed.
  
• October 14 Two Saudi Arabian Al Qaeda operatives hijack a Saudi Airlines Boeing 777 and fly it to Baghdad, demonstrating to Iraq their ability to hijack potential guided missiles. They are given asylum by SADDAM HUSSEIN's government.

2001 Timeline

• SADDAM HUSSEIN and Al Qaeda form Ansar Al Islam.[1]
  
• April 8 MOHAMED ATTA meets Iraqi spy AHMED AL-ANI in Prague,[2] where AL-ANI orders the IIS to wire ATTA money.[3] A moustachioed ATTA and AHMED AL-ANI had been previously photographed on the outskirts of Prague. Comparisons between the man walking with AL-ANI and AA Flight 11 terrorist pilot ATTA are the similarities between the man in the photo and other photos of ATTA in eyebrows, eyes, hairlines, nose, Adam's apple, lips, jawbone, and ears.[4]
• May As part of a deal with SADDAM HUSSEIN, Al Qaeda operatives in Kurdistan assassinate Kurdish Democratic Party member FRANSO HARIRI.
  
• July 21 NAEEM ABD MULHALHAL, an Iraqi reporter affiliated with Iraqi intelligence, describes OSAMA BIN LADEN's plans to attack the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and White House using planes as weapons. This fits with Al Qaeda number one OSAMA BIN LADEN's practice of publicly threatening the United States of America before carrying out terrorist attacks against it. [5]
• September 1 SADDAM HUSSEIN personally praises NAEEM ABD MULHALHAL (see July 21, 2001) for his "documentation of important events and heroic deeds that proud Iraqis have accomplished."
• Week before September 11 Israeli intelligence gives an urgent warning to the CIA of an imminent, large-scale attack inside the U.S.A. by OSAMA BIN LADEN, with strong indications of Iraqi involvement. [6]
• September 11 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijack four commercial passenger jet airliners, two striking the World Trade Center Towers in New York, one striking the Pentagon on Washington, D.C., and the other crashing in an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania due to the heroic efforts of the passengers. The 9/11 attackers murder 2,976 innocent American civilians that morning in the worst terrorist attack on American soil. Conspiracy theorists will promote anti-American conspiracy theories from September 11 through 2006; these theories have been discredited. [7]
  
• September 11 Former Mukhabarat General JAMAL Al QURAIRY, who had long ago defected, sees the 9/11 attacks, turns to a friend, and says, "That's ours."

Powell's UN Speech

The following is good information from Mr. Ron Cram about Colin Powell's 2003 speech before the United Nations, which is widely perceived to have been totally discredited because he exclusively relied on the deceptive Al-Libi. This is not the case:

"Powell's sources

These excepts are taken from a transcript of Powell's speech. [53]

• "And it's no secret that Saddam's own intelligence service was involved in dozens of attacks or attempted assassinations in the 1990s." - This means there are lots of sources, probably both classified and unclassified.

• "We asked a friendly security service to approach Baghdad" - This means a foreign intelligence service.

• "According to detainee Abuwatia (ph)" - This is not al-Libi.

• "the detainee who provided the information about the targets also provided the names of members of the network" - This could be Abuwatia or someone else.

• "an Al Qaida source" - not clear, but almost certainly not al-Libi.

• "We know members of both organizations met repeatedly and have met at least eight times at very senior levels since the early 1990s." This refers to multiple, credible witnesses about multiple meetings. Probably no one knew about all eight meetings, but several people knew about each of them.

• "a foreign security service tells us" - Again, not al-Libi.

• "A detained Al Qaida member tells us" - Not clear, but again this is probably not al-Libi because he described al-Libi differently.

• "And the record of Saddam Hussein's cooperation with other Islamist terrorist organizations is clear." Again, Powell is talking about multiple reports by credible witnesses. This information is not in doubt.

• "I can trace the story of a senior terrorist operative telling how Iraq provided training in these weapons to Al Qaida. Fortunately, this operative is now detained" This person is also described as "responsible for one of Al Qaida's training camps in Afghanistan." - This may indeed be al-Libi, but notice that Powell reports that al-Libi said "a militant known as Abu Abdula Al-Iraqi (ph) had been sent to Iraq several times between 1997 and 2000 for help in acquiring poisons and gases." This is important because...

• "Abu Abdula Al-Iraqi (ph) characterized the relationship he forged with Iraqi officials as successful." Do you see? Abu Abdula Al-Iraqi confirmed the report al-Libi. Now stop spreading the disinformation that Powell's speech has been discredited."

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