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Saturday, November 23, 2002
The Saudi ConnectionThe New York Times and everyone else is saying today that money support for the World Trade Center attacks may have been funneled through an account held by the Saudi ambassador's wife. I have a strong hunch that this Saudi connection is part of the reason we haven't heard more about state sponsorship. Yes, Iraq may have been involved, but the Saudis may have been in it up to their beards, which is very awkward for the Bush family. So the White House has gone looking for a host of other reasons to remove Saddam.
When Iraq does come up in the context of September 11, we usually hear something like this (also from the NY Times): "American intelligence officials say there is no evidence that Iraq has become involved in Qaeda terrorist operations, and the Bush administration has never found hard evidence that Iraq played any role in the Sept. 11 attacks."
And yet Donald Rumsfeld was assuming, minutes after the plane hit the Pentagon, that Iraq was responsible. So the White House is either controlling new information about Saddam and al Qaeda -- for whatever reason -- or steering the War on Terrorism down a long and tortuous by-road.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
9:08 PM
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