Saddam's capture could hurt Dean

1. Saddam was the head of a terrorist state, and likely responsible for 9/11.
2. The WMD stories have not been proven false. Their is plenty of evidence that Saddam/Iraq had WMD, and I suspect, very-soon, we may find WMD. How do you 'prove false' WMD anyway? Only after you've searched the ENTIRE country.


Iraq Linked to WTC Attack Tactic
The Jerusalem Post
By Melissa Radler
NEW YORK (October 14) - An Iraqi intelligence agent who met with suspected hijacker Muhammad Atta six months ago in Prague helped devise the terrorist tactics that downed the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon, according to an Iraqi opposition group.
An official at the Iraqi National Congress (INC) in Washington said the terrorist plot was hatched by Farouk Hijazi, Iraq‘s ambassador to Turkey and a former brigadier-general in the General Intelligence Directorate (GID), and its current brigadier-general, Habib Ma‘amouri.
The two worked together at the GID‘s Special Operations Branch in Salman Pak, south of Baghdad, according to the INC official.
Ma‘amouri was in charge of special operations from 1982-90, where Hijazi lectured on espionage, assassination, and hijacking following the Gulf War, said the official.
"The plan of controlling a civilian airplane with full fuel tanks, using teams of five and items that can be easily carried aboard a plane, such as knives, and then using the plane as a guided missile was hatched by Ma‘amouri and Hijazi at Salman Pak some time before 1995," said the INC official.
According to an article in the October 15 issue of Newsweek, Atta met Hijazi in Prague in April. Hijazi last received widespread press attention in 1998, after he visited Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
In June, 2000, Atta met with agent Ahmed Ani, a former Iraqi consul who was expelled from the Czech Republic in April on suspicion of espionage.

 

Hmmm, that "INC official" wouldn't be Chalabi by any chance, would he?