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Certainly there is a lot aout there to incriminate the US and UK: http://www.americanfreedomnews.com/afn_articles/bushsecrets.htm About the well known G Bush links with the Laden family And the following, known already but a report that ties in UK and US politicans, Sadaam, biological weapons and a known associate of Laden all in one go! September 1998: A small government-owned lab in Michigan engaged in developing an anthrax vaccine is bought for $24.8 million by a secretive group of "investors" calling themselves BioPort. BioPort investors include George Bush Sr, James Baker III, and Frank Carlucci under the name of the Carlyle Group. It also includes Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., former chair of the joint chiefs of staff under Reagan who also served as US ambassador to Britain under President Clinton. According to Maj. Glenn MacDonald USAR, Crowe was one of the thugs back in the Reagan dark ages who sold Saddam Hussein anthrax warfare technology in the hopes Iraq would unleash the disease on Iran. Another major BioPort stockholder is ex-Prime Minister of the UK John Major. We bet Tony Blair knows all about it -if indeed he isn't a silent stock partner. And then there's Fuad El-Hibril, a man who is close to the bin Laden family and who in the past has expressed sympathy for OBL. El-Hibril became BioPort's CEO. El-Hibri was based in England in the 1990s, where he operated a vaccine manufacturing company called Porton Products International of Porton Down, in the UK. One of the anthrax strains originating from Ft. Detrick and related to the isolates used in the anthrax attacks is called the Porton strain for the Porton lab. In a chart in Timothy Read's article in Science, one of the possible routes shown for the anthrax that ended up in the attacks was via Porton Down. From: http://www.newsinsider.org/seal/ancient_evils.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "k hanly" <khanly@mb.sympatico.ca> To: <casi-discuss@lists.casi.org.uk> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 7:09 PM Subject: [casi] Intelligence as Farce This is getting ridiculous. So US troops allow Gilmore to go into the headquarters of Iraqi intelligence. Did he tell them he was just an innocent looter or what? He finds these papers and is able to sneak them out to his hotel. Well assuming he actually is telling the truth did he not think that they might be planted. Nope. Never entered his innocent mind. Should run this along with a picture of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Hussein. Shows a connection of US with Hussein. We already know that until Bin Laden turned bad he had lots of connections to the US. Newspapers just print this stuff without any critical remarks. No need for government control of the press in "democracies". CHeers, Ken Hanly Iraq files 'show al-Qaeda link' Documents found in Baghdad show a link between Saddam Hussein's fallen regime and al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, according to a UK newspaper. The Sunday Telegraph says reporter Inigo Gilmore discovered the files in the bombed headquarters of the Mukhabarat, the feared Iraqi intelligence service. It says the files, in Arabic, show an al-Qaeda envoy was invited to visit Baghdad secretly in March 1998. The report comes only days after its sister paper, the Daily Telegraph claimed to have unearthed documents showing left-wing Labour MP George Galloway received money from the Iraqi regime. Mr Galloway denies the claims and plans to sue the paper for libel. These latest documents suggest Iraqi officials wanted to pass on an oral message to set up a direct meeting with Bin Laden. The 1998 visit described in the documents would have taken place before Washington blamed Bin Laden for the bombings of two US embassies in Africa later that year. Correction fluid Mr Gilmore told the BBC he found the documents after being allowed into the intelligence headquarters in Baghdad by US troops guarding the site. He smuggled the papers back to his hotel where his translator translated them into English. Perhaps significantly the CIA had been through many of these buildings but they seem to have missed this particular document Inigo Gilmore Sunday Telegraph He told the BBC: "I noticed on some of the documents there were some marks erased out... we scraped away with a razor and underneath we found the name Bin Laden three times and obviously realised this was highly significant. "These documents explain that an envoy from Bin Laden came to Iraq in March 1998 to discuss contact between al-Qaeda and Iraqi intelligence. "It also talks about sending an oral message back to Bin Laden and it furthermore discuss the idea of setting up a direct meeting with Bin Laden himself." In one document quoted by the paper an Iraqi official wrote: "We suggest permission to call the Khartoum station [Iraq's intelligence office in Sudan] to facilitate the travel arrangements for the above-mentioned person to Iraq. "And that our body carry all the travel and hotel costs inside Iraq to gain the knowledge of the message from Bin Laden and to convey to his envoy an oral message from us to Bin Laden." Denial Mr Gilmore said the document was highly significant given the United States' claims of links between Iraq and al-Qaeda. He said: "I have worked in the Middle East for many years and like many other journalists was very sceptical about American claims. "However, having found these documents, and reviewed them and had several people translate them for accuracy it does seem very credible that this contact was made in 1998 and perhaps followed up afterwards. "We don't have any evidence of that." Mr Gilmore said he was not out to provide propaganda for the US but the documents could be something they would want to use to back up their claims. He said: "Perhaps significantly the CIA had been through many of these buildings but they seem to have missed this particular document. "But it is pretty much pot luck. We have been through many buildings this week and this is the first significant thing we have found." Before the war Saddam Hussein made it clear he had no links with al-Qaeda. During an interview with former British MP Tony Benn, he said: "If we had a relationship with al-Qaeda, and we believed in that relationship, we would not be ashamed to admit it." Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/2979405.stm Published: 2003/04/27 09:07:01 © BBC MMIII _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. 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