Hollings Referred To Iraq Link To 9/11 In 2002 – Iraq Newspaper Editorial Identified All Three Targets Of 9/11 Bombings Prior To 9/11 (You Simply MUST Read This)
I had not read Captain Ed’s post when I wrote earlier about Barbara Porchia, the mother on Fox News Sunday wanting answers about an Iraq connection to 9/11 that she says was claimed by the President, but that we now know did not exist. I have long argued that for the purpose of discussing the decision to invade Iraq, it is not necessary that Saddam had any prior knowledge of or connection to the 9/11 attacks because the decision to invade was meant to prevent the threat of a future 9/11, and had nothing to do with retribution for 9/11/2001. I still believe that is the case. If evidence of Iraq’s prior knowledge or connection to 9/11 exists though, it should certainly be investigated, and if proven would make any questions about justification for the invasion of Iraq moot in the mind of any objective individual. (Oh, I forgot, the 9/11 Commission determined there was no evidence of any such connection, so I guess that ends that.)
This post at Captain’s Quarters absolutely gave me chill bumps — literally. It is actually pretty close to being a blockbuster revelation, but don’t expect to see it covered on your evening newscast — certainly not as long as Cindy Sheehan is around to provide soundbites. The editorial Ed Morrisey writes about appeared in an Iraqi newspaper on July 21, 2001 and was entered into the Congressional Record by Fritz Hollings on the day after the first anniversary of the 9/11 bombings. If it has been reported anytime in the past three years, I missed it. Here is Ed’s summary of the editorial’s contents:
In one editorial, two months before the attack, al-Nasiriyah — a state-run newspaper for the Saddam regime — managed to name all three attack targets for 9/11. They said that bin Laden had spent his time trying to work out how to bomb the White House, which would happen shortly before destroying the Pentagon. Then, in typically flowery Arabic fashion, the author claims that Americans will “curse the memory of Frank Sinatra”, an odd reference — unless one remembers that “New York, New York” remains Sinatra’s signature song. In the event, the attack followed precisely this plan, except in reverse order: the World Trade Center went first, then the Pentagon, and the White House would likely have followed if the heroes of Flight 93 had not caused the terrorists to down the plane in Pennsylvania.
Read the rest of Captain Ed’s analysis for additional commentary and the significance of the July 2001 date . Also check out Ed Driscoll’s post on the subject of Iraq – 9/11 connections. The text of the editorial follows here:
America says, admitting just like a bird in the midst of a tornado, that Bin Ladin is behind the bombing of its destroyer in Aden. The fearful series of events continues for America and the terror within America gets to the point that the Governor of Texas increases the amount of the award, just as the stubbornness of the other man and his challenge increases. This challenge makes it such that one of his grandchildren comes from Jeddah traveling on the official Saudi Arabia airlines and celebrates with him the marriage of one of the daughters of his companions. Bin Ladin has become a puzzle and a proof also, of the inability of the American federalism and the C.I.A. to uncover the man and uncover his nest. The most advanced organizations of the world cannot find the man and continues to go in cycles in illusion and presuppositions. They still hope that he could come out from his nest one day, they hope that he would come out from his hiding hole and one day they will point at him their missiles and he will join Guevara, Hassan Abu Salama, Kamal Nasser, Kanafani and others. The man responds with a thin smile and replies to the correspondent from Al Jazeera that he will continue to be the obsession and worry of America and the Jews, and that even that night he will practice and work on an exercise called “How Do You Bomb the White House.” And because they know that he can get there, they have started to go through their nightmares on their beds and the leaders have had to wear their bulletproof vests.
Meanwhile America has started to pressure the Taliban movement so that it would hand them Bin Ladin, while he continues to smile and still thinks seriously, with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House …..The phenomenon of Bin Ladin is a healthy phenomenon in the Arab spirit. It is a decision and a determination that the stolen Arab self has come to realize after it got bored with promises of its rulers: After it disgusted itself from their abomination and their corruption, the man had to carry the book of God and the Kalashnikov and write on some off white paper “If you are unable to drive off the Marines from the Kaaba, I will do so.” It seems that they will be going away because the revolutionary Bin Ladin is insisting very convincingly that he will strike America on the arm that is already hurting. That the man will not be swayed by the plant leaves of Whitman nor by the “Adventures of Indiana Jones” and will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs.
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