On 12 Aug 2002 at 8:20, rhinoceros wrote:
>
> Daniel Pipes, Dec 3 2001 article, posted by Joe Dees]
>
> Saddam innocent of 9/11: Lord Robertson, NATO's secretary general,
> last month told US Senators there is "not a cintilla," of evidence
> linking Iraq with the 9/11 attacks. Columnist Robert Novak concurs
> that there is "no Iraqi connection."
>
> Not so. Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers, met with an Iraqi
> intelligence agent in Prague. Two of his co-conspirators met with
> Iraqi intelligence officers in the United Arab Emirates. Bin Laden
> aides met with officials in Baghdad. Further, Saddam may be behind the
> recent military-grade anthrax attacks, suggested by the presence of
> bentonite, a substance only Iraq uses for this purpose.
>
>
> [rhinoceros 1]
> To Joe: In previous posts, you said there was no known connection
> between 9/11 and Iraq. Did you find out that there is one?
>
>
> [Joe Dees 2]
> This is the first time I have run into specificities beyond the
> meetings.
>
> Daniel Pipes is definitely one of the more knowledgeable sources in
> the entire discussion (check his bio). His home site is:
>
> http://www.danielpipes.org/
>
> And there are many more essays that are highly germane to our
> discussions there.
>
>
> [rhinoceros 3]
> I notice the USA government has not been using this evidence -- which
> was anounced as coming from intelligence sources -- as an argument for
> a war against Iraq. This should mean that they are not convinced by
> this evidence.
>
> On the other hand, Daniel Pipes does use this evidence as an argument.
> Is it fair to assume that he uses unsupported arguments, or is there
> some other explanation?
>
Daniel Pipes himself states in an interview that the tenuous connections
between Iraq and 9/11 are insufficient to justify an invasion, but
maintains that such an action is justified by the threat of a hostile
dictator who has used WMD's in the past and pledged to use them
again in the future going nuclear in perhaps three years.
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