Monday, June 21, 2004


Yahoo! News - Iraqi Officer Tied to Al Qaeda - 9/11 Commissioner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks has been told "a very prominent member" of al Qaeda served as an officer in Saddam Hussein's militia, a panel member said on Sunday.

Republican commissioner John Lehman told NBC's "Meet the Press" program that the new intelligence, if proven true, buttresses claims by the Bush administration of ties between Iraq and the militant network believed responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America.

"We are now in the process of getting this latest intelligence," Lehman said.

"Now in the process"???? More than a year after we invaded, we come up with ONE guy, maybe, we still aren't sure, but yet the headline reads that he is, so I guess that's close enough for us.

Clutching at straws. I find it very interesting (and disgusting) that all this stuff is coming out now.