Meanwhile, Cheney Repeats Assertions Of Terror Group’s Ties In Iraq
Saddam Hussein’s government did not cooperate with al Qaeda prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the U.S. Defense Department said in a report based on interrogations of the deposed leader and two of his former aides.
Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions of al Qaeda links to Saddam’s Iraq, contending that the terrorist group was operating in Iraq before the March 2003 invasion led by U.S. forces and that terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was leading the Iraqi branch of al Qaeda. Others in al Qaeda planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
“He took up residence there before we ever launched into Iraq, organized the al Qaeda operations inside Iraq before we even arrived on the scene and then, of course, led the charge for Iraq until we killed him last June,” Cheney told radio host Rush Limbaugh during an interview Thursday. “As I say, they were present before we invaded Iraq.”
However, a declassified Pentagon report released Thursday said that interrogations of Saddam and two of his former aides as well as seized Iraqi documents confirmed that the terrorist organization and the Saddam government were not working together before the invasion.
The Sept. 11 Commission’s 2004 report also found no evidence of a collaborative relationship between Saddam and Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network during that period.
Democratic Sen. Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, had requested that the Pentagon declassify the report prepared by acting Defense Department Inspector General Thomas F. Gimble. In a statement Thursday, Levin said the declassified document showed why a Defense Department investigation had concluded that some Pentagon prewar intelligence work was inappropriate.
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Ram // April 9, 2007 at 10:57 am
‘Dick’ Cheney- B4 Bush decided to ambush Saddam, he should have banished Cheney from this planet! Conceit, deceit, forefeit, embodiment of all the evils bundled in a human being is Dick and his Guru is Bush! Nature has a way of levelling things, so, not to worry! Fish will be extinct (for the humans will eat anything in order to ’stay fit and erect’, human population will swell to over 8 bn and the temperature will soar to 60C and humans will start following and worshipping the worst demons and evils - worse than Bush!!
Go and read the vedas - all that is preached as excellent living after extensive research, were all written in the vedas thousands of years ago. Medicine is proving fruits and vegetables as the best source of food - take it, was said few thousand years ago by the Brahmins. Be learned, not corrupt, build the tissue in your brain, tissues in other parts will grow, show love and you will get it -
Get this across to the Arab world and send Cheney and Bush to vedic schools - compulsory!! Look at the eyes - you know the lies, and if people cant read it, do not give them the right to vote!
pjwalker911 // April 9, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Dick Cheney’s “Guru” is David Rockefeller, his real boss.
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