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| Clinton, Cohen, Berger testified al-Shifa linked to Iraq, al-Qaeda |
| 2004-07-24 |
| The commission also considered evidence that bin Laden and Iraq jointly developed a nerve-gas factory in Sudan. In testimony before the commission March 17, former Defense Secretary William Cohen said soil samples from around the plant showed evidence of EMPTA, a component of nerve gas that doesn't occur naturally and has no commercial application. Cohen testified that the manager of the plant had gone to Baghdad to meet with the "father" of the Iraqi nerve-gas program and the plant appeared to have been financed at least partially by bin Laden. Former President Clinton and former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger made the same assertion in testimony before the commission during private sessions. Based on that evidence, the United States decided to attack the plant with cruise missiles on Aug. 20, 1998. At a news conference Thursday, the chairman of the Sept. 11 commission, former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, said intelligence from foreign sources contradicted some of the information by the U.S. government had gathered. He said the commission had concluded that it wasn't clear the plant was a nerve gas factory or that bin Laden had helped finance it. "We gave weight to (Cohen's) testimony, and it's the same belief that President Clinton had, the same belief that Sandy Berger had," Kean said. "But there are a whole bunch of people on the other side who dispute that finding, who say there is no independent collaborative evidence that those chemicals were there. And this is a debate that goes on." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #4 Very good Mr Davis. I just hope some people like Michael Moore don't put this statement in his next movie. |
| Posted by: plainslow 2004-07-24 9:37:50 AM |
| #3 You guys don't understand Islam. According to the Quran they have to have properly signed, witnessed and recorded contracts for all jihad activities to assist Allah in the proper allocation of virgins. Failure to prepare such documentation might result in failure to receive proper credit for infidel elimination. Thus the absence of such documents is evidence that terrorism has not, occurred, or at least has not been done by Muslims. |
| Posted by: Mr. Davis 2004-07-24 7:25:58 AM |
| #2 It is the legalistic crap that got us in trouble in the first place. The problems started in the intelligence community long ago, circa Frank Church. The Clinton Administration looked at each terrorist incident against us as a criminal act. Look how the C/A handled the USS Cole affair. Lawyers will get us killed if we let them take charge. This is war, not some cop show on MSM. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-07-24 3:05:17 AM |
| #1 This whole evidence of a collaborative link is utter non-sense. Does anyone really suspect that terrorists are going to do anything other than work in shadows? Telegraph their liasons and "collaborative" connections? We seem to be reverting back to a legal proceeding with "clear and convincing" evidence -- utterly maddening logic that may again prove deadly. |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-07-24 1:59:03 AM |