In regards to the video:
"Three Intelligence angencies tell ABC News that they can't be certain what was discussed, but almost certainetly they say Bin Laden has been told
he would be welcome in Baghdad."
Can't be certain, sounds like 'Speculation' to me.
"And intelligence sources say they can only speculate on the purpose of an alliance,"
Only Specualte.
"There are people prepard to commit terror in his name, who he does not even control"
Alliance, no alliance people use his name for their causes. Yhis does not insinuate that He and Saddam were allies.
Yahoo Cache
Iraq and Al Qaeda are not obvious allies. In fact, they are natural enemies. A central tenet of Al Qaeda's jihadist ideology is that secular Muslim
rulers and their regimes have oppressed the believers and plunged Islam into a historic crisis. Hence, a paramount goal of Islamist revolutionaries
for almost half a century has been the destruction of the regimes of such leaders as Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar el-Sadat and Hosni Mubarak
of Egypt, President Hafez al-Assad of Syria, the military government in Algeria and even the Saudi royal family.
To contemporary jihadists, Saddam Hussein is another in a line of dangerous secularists, an enemy of the faith who refuses to rule by Shariah and has
habitually murdered Sunni and Shiite religious leaders in Iraq who might oppose his regime. During the Persian Gulf war, Omar Abdel Rahman, the
radical sheik now imprisoned in the United States, summed up the Islamist view when he was asked what the punishment should be for those who supported
the United States in the conflict. He answered, "Both [those] who are against and the ones who are with Iraq should be killed."
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Gulf-News.com
"Socialists are infidels wherever they are - whether in Baghdad or Aden (Yemen)," it said, but added: "It does not hurt that in current
circumstances, the interests of Muslims coincide with the interests of the socialists in the war against crusaders."
The United States has used its allegations of a link between al Qaeda and Iraq to support its case against Baghdad as it prepares for possible war
over Iraq's alleged banned weapons.
But Bin Laden has often criticised Saddam, whose rule has been marked by purges of Islamists. Saddam said earlier this month he had no links with al
Qaeda.
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CBS News
Rather: I understand. Mr. President, Americans are very much concerned about anyone's connections to Osama bin Laden. Do you have, have you had, any
connections to Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden?
Translator For Saddam Hussein: Is this the basis of the anxiety in the minds of U.S. officials? Or is it the basis of anxiety in the minds of the
people of the United States?
Rather: Mr. President, I believe I can report accurately that it's a major concern in the minds of the people in the United States.
Translator For Saddam Hussein: This issue, this topic did not appear…amongst the concerns of U.S. officials until - that is, about any relationship
between Iraq and Osama bin Laden -- until recently. That is when they realized that what they had been saying about Iraq -- that Iraq was probably in
possession of proscribed weapons of mass destruction -- or that Iraq might have manufactured some of those weapons after ….If that was the case, then
that would be an embarrassment to the United Nations.
Then they began talking about the possibility of Iraq having relations with Osama bin Laden. Mr. Tony B- (GLITCH) actually asked me the same question,
when I (UNINTEL). And I answered him, and I will answer you now very clearly. We have never had any relationship with Mr. Osama bin Laden, and Iraq
has never had any relationship with Al Qaeda. And I think that Mr. Bin Laden himself has recently, in one of his speeches, given such an answer --
that we have no relation with him.
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This is a very intresting interview to say the least. I do not believe Saddam Hussein to be the most 'credible' person in the world, but sometimes
people do have the ability to tell the truth. This is so simple that everything is being blown up. We were led into Iraq because Saddam had
'stockpiles of WMD'. These images were then paraded in front of the UN by Colin Powell. If they were able to obtain 'these' images, don't you
think common sense would be watching these sites for movement? He does not have stockpiles of WMD, which was the reason given for going to war. Again
where are they? Not speculation, tangible PROOF, Images, documents, there is NOTHING. If there was we would not, and the Presedential candidates for
sure, would not be arguing over this. The very possibility that we were lied to once, does not mean that it can't go on.
As ATS is a conspiracy board, and there is always talk about a One World Government, and New World Order, the above nations Seekerof mentioned could
have well been using that for there own agenda. Who Knows? I know that I have not seen 'stockpiles of WMD" show up in Iraq, nor have I seen that
they were moved out. Speculation, Speculation, Its Simple, Yes or No, you can't have it both ways.
