May 2003: Court Rules that Al Qaida and Iraq are Linked

[Rose Siding]

Members of the Bush administation offered evidence under oath.

In Lawsuit, Team Bush Swore Saddam Was Behind 9/11

In March 2003, Judge Baer held two days of hearings to determine the amount of damages that should be awarded to the families......

The most convincing evidence came from testimony by former CIA Director James Woolsey, a member of the administration's Defense Policy Board, and statements made by Colin Powell and George Tenet.
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He cited some specific statements that he relied upon in formulating a believe that there was a link between Saddam and 9/11, and included the following from Tenet and Powell:

...Both Director Tenet and Secretary Powell mentioned 'senior level contacts' between Iraq and al Qaeda going back to the early 1990s ; both mentioned that al Qaeda sought to acquire poison gas and training in its use from Iraq; both mentioned that al Qaeda members have been in Iraq, including Baghdad, after September 2001. ...

Director Tenet's carefully worded letter included in substance the same allegations, but with less detail, that Secretary of State Colin Powell made before the U.N. Security Counsel on Feb. 5, 2003, in his remarks about 'the potentially much more sinister nexus between Iraq and the al-Qaida terrorist network.' ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/05/11/17_lawsuit.html

[gully]

1. Perjury anyone?

hmmmmm

[ShortnFiery]

2. Time for Legal Action! Yes, it's Perjury.

[angstlessk]

4. Perjury, perjury, purjury...wasn't somebody recently IMPEACHED

for perjury? fuckin eh! Let's get those bastards!

[Parisle]

3. It all fits in perfectly,...

---- Woolsey is PNAC. In the days immediately following 9-11, he was dispatched to England with the mission of digging up any connection between al Queda and Iraq. This administration had Iraq in its sights right from election day,.... 9-11 was just the pretext and catalyst.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. K & R. Look at everything that's bubbling up. Wow.

:kick: MKJ

[rodeodance]

6. but need to get this 'out' of DU and send this 'reminder' to all/media/

[ProgressiveEconomist]

7. LOL! Team Dubya is like King Canute's retinue, or

the Tennessee Legislature that enacted a law to the effect that the mathematical constant "PI" (the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle) would henceforth be precisely 22 thirds in that state.