911 Conspiracies

The debate about the 911 air and anthrax attacks should center on actual suspects; Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein, Hezbollah, and other terrorists as the evidence reveals

• Saddam's Iraq and Support for Terrorism
Baghdad actively sponsored terrorist groups, providing safe haven, training, arms, and logistical support, requiring in exchange that the groups carry out operations ordered by Baghdad for Saddam's objectives. Terrorist groups were not permitted to have offices, recruitment, or training facilities or freely use territory under the regime's direct control without explicit permission from Saddam.

• Saddam used foreign terrorist groups as an instrument of foreign policy. Groups hosted by Saddam were denied protection if he wanted to improve relations with a neighboring country and encouraged to attack those Saddam wanted to pressure. If they refused Saddam's "requests," they were exiled from Iraq
http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing3/witness_yaphe.htm

• Saddam funneled his funds through the front, which gave $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers, $10,000 to the families of those killed in the intifada, and smaller sums to the wounded. "
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/15/sprj.irq.saddam.palestinians/

• Salman Pak / Al Salman
Former Iraqi military officers have described a highly secret terrorist training facility at Salman Pak, where both Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs receive training on hijacking planes and trains, planting explosives in cities, sabotage, and assassinations. Training activities including simulated hijackings carried out in an airplane fuselage [said to be a Boeing 707] at the camp.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/salman_pak.htm

• There are strong indications that Iraq produced more anthrax than it declared, and that at least some of this was retained after the declared destruction date. It might still exist. As part of its 7 December 2002 declaration, Iraq resubmitted the Amorim panel document, but the table showing this particular import of media was not included. The absence of this table would appear to be deliberate as the pages of the resubmitted document were renumbered."
http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/Bx27.htm

• A man who had entered the United Stares on an Iraqi passport under the name of Ramzi Yousef--was involved in another stupendous bombing conspiracy. In January 1995, Yousef and his associates plotted to blow up eleven U.S. commercial aircraft in one spectacular day of terrorist rage.
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iraq/956-tni.htm

• U.S. authorities in Iraq say they have new evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime gave money and housing to Abdul Rahman Yasin, a suspect in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, according to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-09-17-iraq-wtc_x.htm

• John Doe number two, who helped McVey, is an Iraqi Republican Guard Soldier Hussain Hashem Alhussaini. He was identified by more than 15 witnesses in a U.S. court where he lost his lawsuit to the newspaper who named him as Doe 2. He then went to work at Boston's Logan Airport where the Sept. 11 hijackings originated.
http://www.indystar.com/library/topics/opinion/patterson/columns/2002_0323.html

• In 1998, Osama bin Laden spent six weeks or more in Baghdad at the request of Iraq's deputy director general.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/27/walq27.xml

• The Czech envoy to the UN has confirmed that an Iraqi agent met with suspected Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, in the latest rebuke to widespread U.S. media reports dismissing the Prague encounter as a fabrication.

"The meeting took place," Hynek Kmonicek, a former deputy foreign minister, told The Prague Post flatly in a New York City interview."
http://www.praguepost.com/P02/2002/20605/news1a.php
• Tim McVeigh, cited evidence of a meeting in Davao City, in Mindanao in 1992 or 1993, when Yousef members, Abdul Hakim Murad, Wali Khan Amin Shah and a "farmer" met to discuss the Oklahoma bombing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Nichols

• Saddam Hussein's regime prepared terrorist attacks against the United States and its interests abroad, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
http://www.russiajournal.com/news/cnews-article.shtml?nd=44286

• Saddam Hussein, had plotted to assassinate former President George Bush during Bush's ceremonial visit to Kuwait in mid-April.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?020930fr_archive02

Conspiracy theories and other anti-American propaganda are unhelpful during the War on Terror. Hezbollah and Hamas have slogans simliar to the 911 anthrax attack messages "Death to Israel. Death to America." and should be criticized instead of chronic moonbat arguments regarding the U.S. government.