intelligence agencies at the start of the September 1980 Iran-Iraq war, his first contacts with U.S. While many have thought that Saddam first became involved with U.S. The CIA declined to comment on the report. intelligence officials to piece together the following account. diplomats, British scholars and former U.S. United Press International has interviewed almost a dozen former U.S. that included references to 'the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people' as well as 'the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance.' Rosett noted that just prior to Saddam's $300,000 payment to Al Zawahri in 1998, bin Laden issued a fatwa against the U.S. 'Meanwhile,' Rosett continued, 'over in Iraq about that same time, Saddam Hussein, after a lean stretch under United Nations sanctions, had just cut his Oil-for-Food deal with the U.N., and soon began exploiting that program to embezzle billions meant for relief.' He needed a fresh bundle to rent Afghanistan from the Taliban, train recruits, expand al Qaida's global network, and launch what eventually became the 9/11 attacks. 'By 1996, remember, bin Laden had been run out of Sudan, and seems to have been out of money. connection to the 9/11 attacks in the Weekly Standard last August: 'He talked about this system of Saddam funneling money, usually cash payments, to a variety of al-Qaida-linked Islamic terrorist groups,' the Standard reporter said.įreelance reporter Claudia Rosett, who single-handedly broke the Oil-for-Food story last year, first broached the possibility of a U.N.

'Saddam had pretty strong ties to bin Laden when bin Laden was in Sudan,' he said, based on what a former CIA counterrorism official had told him. Hayes said the total amount of Iraqi cash funneled into al-Qaida reached into the 'millions.' jackpot enabled Saddam to become much more generous toward his terrorist allies in the years before 9/11. While the inception of Iraq's financial relationship with al-Qaida predated the 1996 Oil-for-Food program, the U.N. In an eerie coincidence, an October 2001 estimate by the Justice Department put the entire cost of the 9/11 operation at $300,000. 'It's likely that Saddam was giving some of his money to al-Qaida.' 'Saddam had given $300,000 in cash to Ayman Al Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's number two man, in the spring of 1998,' the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley on Saturday. In what may be the most shocking news to emerge from the already stunning Oil-for-Food scandal, investigators say that Saddam Hussein bankrolled key al-Qaida players in the late 1990s - a period of time when the terror group was planning the 9/11 attacks and the Iraqi dictator was ripping off billions from the U.N. Oil-for-Food May Have Funded 9/11 Attacks His Excellency also ordered, God shepherd him, to include the martyrs of the Intifada with what the martyrs of the mother of all battles deserve from a salary and provisions since we have considered them the same. President the Leader ordered, God protect him, to dedicate (25,000), twenty five thousand dollars for the family of each one who conducts Martydom operation in Palestine. Farook Al Kaddomi, the foreign minister of the state of Palestine, Mr. To the Respectful Chairman of the Presidential Archives Press Secretary: No 4/28 Date: 4/March/2002

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