*Ø* Blogmanac | UPI pulls 9-11 story
Remember when Colin Powell went before the Security Council of the UN and lied that he had an audio tape that showed that Osama bin Laden was a friend of Saddam Hussein, when in fact, the tape showed bin Laden was calling for the assassination of the Iraqi President's assassination? Here's some more in that vein.
9/11 Report: No Iraq Link to al-Qaida
By Shaun Waterman
United Press International
Wednesday 23 July 2003
"WASHINGTON - The report of the joint congressional inquiry into the suicide hijackings on Sept. 11, 2001, to be published Thursday, reveals U.S. intelligence had no evidence that the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein was involved in the attacks, or that it had supported al-Qaida, United Press International has learned.
"The report shows there is no link between Iraq and al-Qaida," said a government official who has seen the report.
"Former Democratic Georgia Sen. Max Cleland, who was a member of the joint congressional committee that produced the report, confirmed the official's statement."
Read it at TruthOut, and thank you Almaniac Lynn Perry for alerting me to this.
Lynn writes:
"I went to truthout.org and found the first story. I always go to the original and read the story, just in case there are updates or whatever, in this case, the story had been stricken (see the second link). So I'm sending this along in the interesting of dissemination of information."
Here is the second report:
"9/11 report:By Shaun Waterman
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
Published 7/25/2003 1:50 PM
WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- On July 23 2003, United Press International published an article about materials believed to be in a report to be released July 24 regarding investigations into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"UPI cannot further stand by this story as originally filed and will have a corrected version soon." Source: UPI
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Here's another hot story from TruthOut:
White House, CIA Kept Key Portions of Report Classified
By Dana Priest
Washington Post
"President Bush was warned in a more specific way than previously known about intelligence suggesting that al Qaeda terrorists were seeking to attack the United States, a report on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks indicated yesterday. Separately, the report cited one CIA memo that concluded there was "incontrovertible evidence" that Saudi individuals provided financial assistance to al Qaeda operatives in the United States.
"These revelations are not the subject of the congressional report's narratives or findings, but are among the nuggets embedded in a story focused largely on the mid-level workings of the CIA, FBI and U.S. military ..."
Source
Remember when Colin Powell went before the Security Council of the UN and lied that he had an audio tape that showed that Osama bin Laden was a friend of Saddam Hussein, when in fact, the tape showed bin Laden was calling for the assassination of the Iraqi President's assassination? Here's some more in that vein.
9/11 Report: No Iraq Link to al-Qaida
By Shaun Waterman
United Press International
Wednesday 23 July 2003
"WASHINGTON - The report of the joint congressional inquiry into the suicide hijackings on Sept. 11, 2001, to be published Thursday, reveals U.S. intelligence had no evidence that the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein was involved in the attacks, or that it had supported al-Qaida, United Press International has learned.
"The report shows there is no link between Iraq and al-Qaida," said a government official who has seen the report.
"Former Democratic Georgia Sen. Max Cleland, who was a member of the joint congressional committee that produced the report, confirmed the official's statement."
Read it at TruthOut, and thank you Almaniac Lynn Perry for alerting me to this.
Lynn writes:
"I went to truthout.org and found the first story. I always go to the original and read the story, just in case there are updates or whatever, in this case, the story had been stricken (see the second link). So I'm sending this along in the interesting of dissemination of information."
Here is the second report:
"9/11 report:By Shaun Waterman
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
Published 7/25/2003 1:50 PM
WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- On July 23 2003, United Press International published an article about materials believed to be in a report to be released July 24 regarding investigations into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"UPI cannot further stand by this story as originally filed and will have a corrected version soon." Source: UPI
Here's another hot story from TruthOut:
White House, CIA Kept Key Portions of Report Classified
By Dana Priest
Washington Post
"President Bush was warned in a more specific way than previously known about intelligence suggesting that al Qaeda terrorists were seeking to attack the United States, a report on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks indicated yesterday. Separately, the report cited one CIA memo that concluded there was "incontrovertible evidence" that Saudi individuals provided financial assistance to al Qaeda operatives in the United States.
"These revelations are not the subject of the congressional report's narratives or findings, but are among the nuggets embedded in a story focused largely on the mid-level workings of the CIA, FBI and U.S. military ..."
Source
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