From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

George Sherwood wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:56:15 +0100, Phil Payne wrote:
>
>>>  They said Iraq was involved with Al Qaeda, and they were.
>> Only as sworn and implacable enemies.
>
> If you say so, but seemed to be willing to talk if not work together if
> required. Common enemies make strange bedfellows.
>
> George
>
> From the 9/11 report:

Oh Blimey George firstly quoting from the 9-11 commission ain't exactly
going to help your case.

Secondly you could have said the exact same things wrt AQ & Libyan
intelligence. The job of an Intel org is to know about anything which might
affect the state.

The only intel org which seemed to have no ways into AQ was US intel &
look at the result....you went running to the Libyans etc who had "had
meetings between intel officers & AQ members".

Heck Iraqi intel had meeting with Kurdish rebel groups & Iranian
mil/pol/dips during the Iran-Iraq war so concluding that a meeting twixt an
intel org & another group is thus friendly is.......a bit naive.

Adam

>
> Page 58
>
>     Bin Ladin now had a vision of himself as head of an international
>     jihad confederation... In building this Islamic army, he enlisted
>     groups from...Iraq...
>
> Page 61
>
>     Bin Ladin was also willing to explore possibilities for cooperation
>     with Iraq...
>
> Page 61
>
>     With the Sudanese regime acting as intermediary, Bin Ladin himself met
>     with a senior Iraqi intelligence officer in Khartoum in late 1994 or
>     early 1995.
>
> Page 66
>
>     There is also evidence that around this time Bin Ladin sent out a
>     number of feelers to the Iraqi regime, offering some cooperation. None
>     are reported to have received a significant response... In mid-1998
>     the situation reversed. It was Iraq who reportedly took the
>     initiative. In March 1998, after Bin Ladin's public fatwa against the
>     United States, two al Qaeda members reportedly went to Iraq to meet
>     with Iraqi intelligence. In July, and Iraqi delegation traveled to
>     Afghanistan to meet first with the Taliban and then with Bin Ladin.

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