Iraq

[Charles Jannuzi]

>>Shortly after 9/11, there was an attempt to 
relate Iraq to the attacks. The original claim
that Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers,  met
with Iraqi intelligence in Prague earlier in the
year, quickly fell apart, as Czech  officials
engaged in an array of recantations and
re-recantations. There are also  allegations,
recently resurrected, that Iraq had a terrorist
training camp at Salman  Pak, where Islamic
fundamentalists were trained in how to hijack
planes. It's hard  to argue against any of this
simply because there's so little there there; in
fact,  for months the administration stopped
claiming any connection, unthinkable had there 
been any concrete evidence. The best current
argument for this connection is Donald 
Rumsfeld's dictum that "the absence of evidence
is not evidence of absence."<<

The preponderence of journalistic info. that I've
seen leads me to believe that Atta did indeed
meet with Iraqis in Prague. Prague, you see, is
one center of the US-funded anti-Hussein efforts
and the Iraqi diplomatic delegation there has
been marked by defections. My theory Atta was
meeting with Iraqis all right, and that he did
indeed leave for the US for the last time from
Prague. However, he was tracked by Czech
intelligence and the US did nothing because Atta
was already passing as a 'US asset' in the
anti-Hussein efforts. So all the more reason why
the US would want first news items that make it
look like Hussein and then have those denied and
then undenied. Most people lose track of all the
funny goings on, and it worked beautifully.

Another interesting too good to be a coincidence
thing is the leading anthrax suspect (remember
all the bluster about how it had to be Hussein),
Hatfill in Frederick, MD, is on a list of UN
inspectors trained to go to Iraq.

This admininstration is beyond the imagination of
Tom Clancy, that's for sure.

Charles Jannuzi 

   

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