[Changleen]

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,6119,2-10-1460_1352227,00.html

Iraqi linked to Bush snr held

Washington - US forces apprehended a former senior Iraqi intelligence official on Friday near the Syrian border in Iraq, netting a figure associated with an alleged 1993 plot to assassinate former president George Bush in Kuwait, a US official said.

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Hijazi's capture was "significant."

"He could know a lot of history," said General Richard Myers, the chair of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The 1993 plot called for killing Bush with remote-controlled car bombs that would be detonated as he made a triumphal visit to Kuwait City honouring him for the 1991 liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation.

The United States retaliated in June 1993 by firing 23 sea-launched cruise missiles at the headquarters of the Iraqi intelligence service.

Hijazi also is reported to have met in the past with Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But US officials were unable to corroborate those reports.

"The fact that Iraq's intelligence service is basically a terrorist organisation run through their embassies, that would seem like a likely connection," said the official, who asked not to be identified.

"There was a large al-Qaeda presence in Tunisia," the official added.

Wow, that article has something for everyone! It's like an James Bond movie! Explosions, remote controled car bombs, revenge, conspiricies... great stuff...

Is it just me or the 'Iraq was linked with terrorists' excuses and explanations getting weeker and weaker?

'Uh, Iraq had an embassy in a country where we think a lot of terrorists might of come from..."

Yeah, and the US has an embassy in Saudi Arabia. Your point is?

 

[ridecruz88]

Ya, catching these people who pose a threat to thousands of americans...no big deal :nuts:

 

[Changleen]

So you're saying Iraqis are a threat outside their own borders?

 

[TheInedibleHulk]

Youre trying to say that everyone involved in the Iraqi govt is a threat to americans? Your right, theyre probably ALL terrorists.

 

[N8 v2.0]

 

[ridecruz88]

hmmm...lets see, o ya we're talking about al qaeda here

 

[chicodude]

hmmm...lets see, o ya we're talking about al qaeda here

You're a moron........GO AWAY :angry:

 

[genpowell71]

hmmm...lets see, o ya we're talking about al qaeda here

Didnt you get the memo from Kerry? Al Queda isnt in Iraq.

 

[TheInedibleHulk]

hmmm...lets see, o ya we're talking about al qaeda here

Your an idiot, we're NOT talkign about al qaeda in any way whatsoever, we're talking about officials of the former Iraqi government. A governmnet that while no doubt was poor and possibly "evil" much like many other in the world and most in history, had a right to exist. Assuming that every Iraqi official is linked to Al Qaeda, while a great way to try to excuse the enormous crime we have commited in Iraq, is ignorant, somewhat racist, and clearly untrue.

 

[ridecruz88]

Your an idiot, we're NOT talkign about al qaeda in any way whatsoever, we're talking about officials of the former Iraqi government. A governmnet that while no doubt was poor and possibly "evil" much like many other in the world and most in history, had a right to exist. Assuming that every Iraqi official is linked to Al Qaeda, while a great way to try to excuse the enormous crime we have commited in Iraq, is ignorant, somewhat racist, and clearly untrue.

my bad, i thought you were talking about the military being rascist because the al qaeda were iraqis

 

[genpowell71]

Dont let them get to you, it's rough in this forum.

 

[MMike]

I love it when people write "Your an idiot" (sic)

 

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"There was a large al-Qaeda presence in Tunisia," the official added.

I'm too lazy to use the quote button but...what the hell?