Perle in August 2002 Claimed Atta Met with Saddam

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From the South African Press Association archives

http://www.news24.com/News24v2/ContentDisplay/genericFrame/0,6178,2-10-1287_1254270,00.html

Atta met Hussein before Sept 11
08/09/2002 13:24 - (SA)

Milan - Mohammed Atta consulted Saddam Hussein prior to leading the suicide attacks on the World Trade Centre on September 11, according to Richard Perle, an advisor to the US defense secretary.

"Mohammed Atta met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad prior to September 11. We have proof of that, and we are sure he wasn't just there for a holiday," Perle told Italy's business daily Il Sole 24 Ore.

"The meeting is one of the motives for an American attack on Iraq," added Perle, who is chairperson of the Defense Policy Board and consultant to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a leading advocate of an attack on Iraq.

"The main objective of the American administration is to avoid weapons of mass destruction falling into the wrong hands," said Perle. - Sapa-AFP

[molly]

1. Liar - liar pants on fire

prove it

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3. I'll bet Chalabi had the "proof"

Or had it made, anyway. :eyes:

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2. I wish they would make a decision

on why Chimp got us into this war.

Now it's that Mohammed Atta met Saddam prior to 9/11.

I thought it was the weapons of mass destruction?

Or was it because Saddam was a cruel man?

Or was it because the Iraqi people needed liberating?

Exactly why did we start the war in Iraq?


:shrug:

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5. Don't forget, this was August 2002, before they put War on Iraq

in the showroom. They were just getting warmed up. But there it is in print, that they were planning to sell it using the Atta-Saddam axis. :eyes:

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4. LIAR.

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6. I wonder if Cheney worked this "fact-simile" into a speech around then.

Anyone know?

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7. One more to add to the list of many lies.

:(

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8. Thunderous applause to anyone who finds Cheney quoting Perle

or to anyone who finds Cheney spreading the phony Atta and Iraqi agent in Prague story.