Missing Link?
War On Terror: Al-Qaida mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has confessed to being the mastermind for a lot of terrorist crimes. Old news? Hardly. His confession appears to link al-Qaida to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
War critics argue that Saddam Hussein had little to do with terrorism, and nothing to do with al-Qaida. Since there was no Iraq-al-Qaida link, they say, the U.S. should never have invaded to get rid of Hussein, no matter how evil he was. But something interesting has come out of the interrogations of the lead al-Qaida suspects at Guantanamo.
In particular, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confirmed what was suspected all along: He was the driving force and chief planner behind 15 years of al-Qaida terrorism — nearly 30 attacks and plots in all. That includes 9/11, the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl and, much earlier, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
If so, it further cements the evidence that Iraq was, at minimum, a willing partner of al-Qaida’s in the decadelong burst of terrorism that culminated in 9/11. Indeed, Mohammed’s Gitmo confession neatly ties the ‘93 WTC bombing and 9/11 to Iraq and al-Qaida. After all, Iraq had the means — oil money — and the motive — revenge for Hussein’s humiliation in the 1991 Gulf War.
Of particular interest is the revelation about Mohammed’s involvement in the ‘93 bombing. It shows a linkage not only between the ‘93 WTC attack and 9/11, but also between Iraq and al-Qaida.
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It’s pretty clear that al-Qaida and Iraq, far from being enemies, were tactical allies against the U.S. As such, removing Hussein wasn’t a distraction from our war on terror; it was vital to it.
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Information like this is the antidote to the MSM’s ongoing campaign of lies, half-truths and fabrications about the war in Iraq, the overall war on terror, and terrorists in general. We have to kill them before they kill us.