The next time someone tells you that Iraq has nothing to do with the War on Terror or 9-11, just say "Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi."The name, incidentally, is also transliterated Abdul Hadi al Iraqi. And who is he? From the Times:
Cassandra (as Lewis Carroll might have put it) chortles in her joy:The al-Qaeda leader who is thought to have devised the plan for the July 7 suicide bombings in London and an array of terrorist plots against Britain has been captured by the Americans.
Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a former major in Saddam Hussein’s army, was apprehended as he tried to enter Iraq from Iran and was transferred this week to the “high-value detainee programme” at Guantanamo Bay.
Abd al-Hadi was taken into CIA custody last year, it emerged from US intelligence sources yesterday, in a move which suggests that he was interrogated for months in a “ghost prison” before being transferred to the internment camp in Cuba.
If we had pulled out of Iraq last year, we would not have caught Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi...(Cute, huh? She wants us to think that the Democrats control mainstream news sources. That lie never dies.)
But then again, Saddam had no connections with Al Qaeda, or so we are assured by the MSM/DNC.
Other right-wingers denounce the "liberal media" for focusing on the illegal detention and not on the connection to 7/7 or to Saddam. These commentators refuse to recognize the problem always presented by confessions under torture: Right now, as far as we in the laity know, the evidence linking Abd al-Hadi to 7/7 resembles the evidence linking the Knights Templar to Satan-worship.
The remarkable Larisa Alexandrovna points out the indicators that this tale may be another BushCo piece of fiction:
Al-Iraqi was a Kurdish born member of Saddam's army, but he was a Pakistani mole, not a Saddam loyalist. This is like saying that someone like Aldrich Ames was a US intelligence officer and therefor represented the US government in his activities, when in fact, he was a Soviet mole.(Emphasis added.) All other sources known to me (this Wikipedia entry provides a start) confirm that the British attack had never been credited to al-Iraqi until recently -- like, yesterday. He was wanted for other things, but not for that.
Al-Iraqi was never even suggested as a mastermind behind the 7/7 attacks. Nor was he ever mentioned as in any way connected to the Luton cell.
I find it incredibly hard to believe that the Bush administration would sit on the news of a capture this huge, especially before the mid-term elections. The Bush administration would have leaked this capture to the press and done the Sunday talkies with great fanfare. And if it was known that the man in custody was the mastermind behind 7/7, then Bush would have declared his capture one of the big victories in the war on terror. Yet we are to believe that they sat on this arrest, held the detainee in some secret facility until now, when they suddenly decided to let the world know that he was the official mastermind of 7/7?Remember, this is the same Bush administration which proffered fake "yellowcake" documents as real, which built up an inane melodrama around the rescue of Jessica Lynch, and which staged the "spontaneous" fall of Saddam's statue using Chalabi's goons.
Perhaps someone could explain to our right-wing friends that Al Qaeda would never have had any foothold in Iraq if we had not invaded, and stayed, and stolen resources, and done everything we could to alienate the population.
So: What really happened on 7/7?
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On April 9, 2006, the Observer published a leaked Home Office report on the bombings. According to this piece (which stems from an official and confidential document, not from data derived from a guy being starved and waterboarded), the attack was not the work of Al Qaeda:
Far from being the work of an international terror network, as originally suspected, the attack was carried out by four men who had scoured terror sites on the internet. Their knapsack bombs cost only a few hundred pounds, according to the first completed draft of the government's definitive report into the blasts.Back to the Times piece:
Pakistani intelligence sources said that Abd al-Hadi was also in contact with Rachid Rauf, a Birmingham man now in prison in Pakistan and alleged to be a key figure in last summer’s alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airliners in mid-flight.Oh ho. So aside from information derived under torture, the only "evidence" connecting Al Iraqi to 7/7 comes from -- get this! -- Pakistani intelligence.
Consider the source. Strong evidence connects Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, with Osama Bin Laden and with 9/11. Those links are, in fact, much more compelling than any alleged ties between Al Qaeda and the U.K. atrocity.
As noted in an earlier piece, the paymaster for 9/11 appears to have been ISI agent Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh. And after you've scanned his strange career, check out the troubling history of former ISI head Mehmood Ahmad Mehmood, paymaster to Atta and "enabler" of Al Qaeda's mass exodus from Afghanistan to Pakistan. Some observers think that MAM has always been the "real" leader of Al Qaeda. (Mehmood has pulled a vanishing act, no doubt with the connivance of the Pakistani government; some think that he is still pulling the strings at ISI.)
And yet according to the Times and the right-wingers, we are supposed to accept ISI's word against al-Iraqi -- or against anyone else. Riiiiiiiight.
(As for the case against Rauf: We've already had much to say about that scarecrow. Remember, Rauf was arrested in Pakistan -- where he marketed beauty and health products -- before the alleged jetliner plot was to be executed.)
To repeat: Nobody mentioned one word about a connection between al-Iraqi and 7/7 until after he had entered the torture chamber. Indeed, the British government had concluded as late as April, 2006 that Al Qaeda had no connection to the crime.
Perhaps you remember an old joke (I've told it before) about the time the head of the KGB, the head of the CIA, and the head of Mossad all went on vacation together. They decided to hold a contest to see who would be the first to a shoot a bear in the forest. Let's cut to the punchline: The Mossad guy won when he showed the other guys a battered and bruised rabbit. "He confessed! He IS a bear!"
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It's total fiction, like usual.
Similar to "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi" who was fabricated by US propaganda to make us believe that "Al-Qaeda" was active in Iraq. Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi
I don't even believe that "Al-Qaeda" is really active in Iraq. It's only propaganda to justify the invasion to the gullible mass of morons who watch FoxNews and think that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11.
I don't even believe that "Al-Qaeda" as an "international terrorist organization" with thousand of sleeper and active cells everywhere in the world really exists. I re-watched "The Power of Nightmares" recently and it's fascinating how reality and the US propaganda about "Al-Qaeda" don't coincide with reality.
Have you ever seen the clip where Rumsfeld is presenting us nice schemas of the supposedly very sophisticated "underground bunker" that Al-Qaeda had in Afghanistan (the type of secret lair a James Bond villain would be proud of). Where are they now ? the only think they found in the mountains are caves with box of ammunitions
I've talked about the underground lair before. In fact, I even showed the 'artist's conception":
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/09/power-of-nightmares-is-al-qaeda-real.html
I'm thinking of putting together a "greatest hits" compilation of these fantasies, perhaps to be published elsewhere. I'd love to hear your suggestions, folks -- but understand that I'm restricting the list to the provable, as opposed to the "in my opinion" stuff.
We have the underground bunker, the statue coming down, the Lynch rescue, the Tillman thing, the Zarqawi thing, a couple of videotapes acknowledged as fakes...
What else?
(Trannies, I know you want to jump in here. SHOO. Unless you can put it in verse.)
"...who is thought to have devised the plan..." say the Times.
Oh yeah. There's nothing like confusing theme with rheme (topic with comment, in (some linguists' preferred terminology) for muddling minds.
"What really happened on 7/7?"
Remember the old saying:
'once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action'?
Well, here you go...
1) London 7/7/2005. First reports (Associated Press) say Benyamin Netanyahu changed his movements in the Liverpool Street station area because of a security warning. Later denied.
2) Amman 11/9/2005 (using US dating convention). First reports (Haaretz) say Israelis were evacuated from the hotel before it was bombed, because of a security warning. Later denied.
So, still 'coincidence'? Until we get to 3) anyway...
Note that these reports weren't idiotic allegations made by neo-Nazis - unless we think neo-Nazis have infiltrated the Israeli government's press office.
The Liverpool Street station area that morning, 7/7, must have been crawling with Israeli security, because of the TASE conference...
...cooperating with the Brits. See Peter Power, author of the UK-police-response-to-major-emergencies methodology, on what he was doing that day.
Friends, I used to travel on the Northern Line a lot. It ain't half as bad as middle-class types from north of the river suggest.
Some tube stations on that line were subject to prolonged closure that morning, around 7 am, before the bombs exploded. All the way from Morden to Stockwell. That's extremely unusual. In several years of travelling, I cannot remember it happening once, except on occasion of workers' strikes. It cannot possibly be explained solely by a broken-down train.
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I know that one of my prior posts was removed so I must be a Trannie.
What IS it?
We need to ask Rudy what he knows about 7/7. He always seems to be where disaster strikes.
Peter Power (nice name) was working on "fictional "scenario" of multiple bomb attacks on London's underground took place at exactly the same time as the bomb attack on July 7, 2005."
Sounds exactly like 9/11, were multiple fictional scenario were also being played. Looks like OBL subscribed to the mailing list and received the memo for that exercise... again.
Another nice fantasy on 9/11 was the incredibly resistant passport of Mohamed Atta found a couple of blocks away from the WTC.
Uncle Sam's lucky finds
In less than a week came another find, two blocks away from the twin towers, in the shape of Atta's passport. We had all seen the blizzard of paper rain down from the towers, but the idea that Atta's passport had escaped from that inferno unsinged would have tested the credulity of the staunchest supporter of the FBI's crackdown on terrorism.
That was calm and reasonable, Joseph! So much more pleasant to read through than a rant. And I do hope it works. Thanks.
Whoa! Joseph, where'd it go? That was beautiful, bring your response back!
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