Saddam and 9/11

Here's an interesting post that stands in strict opposition to the claims of the 9/11 commission.

The most interesting tidbit is that Saddam threatened to send indivdiual terrorists to the US before the 1st Gulf War. For some reason, the author uses that bit of new info to conclude Saddam was behind 9/11. I don't find that argument very convincing.

I think it is pretty well established Saddam didn't have much to do with 9/11. At the MOST, he may have known an attack was being planned, so it seems to me. He might have provided safe haven for Al Queda members fleeing the US, although I doubt he would've done so, because it would have given us even more legitimacy for deposing his regime.

I do think the 1993 bombing goes under-reported. I for instance, didn't know until recently that there was cyanide in the truck bomb. The 1993 attack, was in fact, a biological attack on the US. Fortunately, the incompetents behind that attack didn't know the bomb itself would burn up all the cyanide.

There were certainly ties to Iraq in that attack, the Iraqi specialists that came to help, as he points out in the article. Yousef's Iraqi passport, etc. Plus, the proximity of the Gulf War I and the attempted Pres Bush assasination.

Look at this article on the 1993 bombing. In hindsight, this looks like clear evidence we should have been way more deeply worried about Islamic Terrorism.

I may have posted this before, but another interesting article linking Yousef to being an Iraqi intelligence agent....which again, doesn't mean Saddam knew about 9/11, but makes it a little more obvious why he would be a prime suspect.

More on Yousef. In this article, it says he did not use cyanide because he ran out of money.

The BBC story. Yousef's uncle is KSM? Interesting. Again, I can't get a firm answer on whether cyanide was actually used or not. But interesting analysis...Yousef's "success" helped spawn the audaciousness of the current Al Queda. They've been emboldened by our vulnerability. This is why taking the fight to them is so important and what many liberals fail to recognize when criticizing the war.

War criticism is certainly legit, so long as it recognizes that there is an enemy that needs to be fought with the gloves off....and that point I think, all too often, gets neglected.