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Daily Fact & Act #11
Monday, 30 September 1991*
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*This is 1991, right? Recession, war on Iraq, lower markets, low employment, low job creation, weak dollar, a "president" who is out of touch-- "It's the economy stupid" --with the people, lies and rumors being touted by politicians and the press as truth, government actions causing mass protests in the streets.
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Fact
Iraq and al-Qaeda
What is known about any links?
The report from the Czech authorities that one of the 11 September hijackers, Mohammed Atta, had met an Iraqi agent in Prague in April 2001. This was never proved or disproved, as is the nature of such evidence. It simply remains on the table, undeveloped.
A suggestion in some circles that Ramzi Yousef, who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, escaped from New York on a false passport provided by Iraqi intelligence. Again, by its nature, this allegation is impossible to verify or disprove.
A claim that al-Qaeda refugees from the war in Afghanistan have found refuge in Iraq. Some of this relates to a group called Ansar al Islam (Partisans of Islam) which has taken over a small area near the Iranian border. This part of Iraq, however, is in Kurdish hands and outside the direct control of the Iraqi Government. Iraq is said by defectors to have links to the group, but Iraq, of course, could make contacts in order to encourage it to fight the Kurds.
The Christian Science Monitor, in an article reproduced by the US State Department, interviewed one Ansar activist Rafed Ibrahim Fatah, now in Kurdish hands, who spoke of meetings in earlier years between the group and al-Qaeda leaders, though not Osama Bin Laden himself. This however does not necessarily implicate the Iraqis.
The Sunday Telegraph in London said that Rafed Fatah and a senior al-Qaeda operative captured in Morocco, Abu Zubair (known as The Bear), underwent training in Iraq and would feature in the British Government's dossier against Iraq. They were not mentioned in the report. Nor was any alleged link between al-Qaeda and Iraq. One has to conclude that, in the absence of more evidence, the links are tenuous. More.
In addition, Saddam Hussein has not previously shown a fondness for Islamic extremists. He comes from a revolutionary, but secular socialist background.
Analysis: Iraq and al-Qaeda - Thursday, 26 September - BBC World
Books
The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider
Al Martin, 8/2001
Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power On Earth
Jeremy Rifkin, 9/2002
Sacred Space And Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam
Juan Cole, 4/2002
Deficit Watch
From LMNOP Stockwatch page
9/26
-$6,193,334,713,434.45 (trillion)
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