Iraq: Early Terrorists Contacts: Translations from Arabic to English show 1999 contacts of Iraq and Taliban
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A mountain of untranslated documents in Arabic are receiving attention from a small team of conerned experts under Ray Robison. The team is translating the multitude of captured documents and also posting them item by item on the Net at the invitation of FoxNews.com. The series will appear as Saddam Dossier: Documenting Saddam's Link to Terror. The series has been launched asking this question, along with a thawt-provoking answer relevant to the left-liberal line that has dominated the mainstream media in America. "What was the relationship between Saddam Hussein's inner circle and Islamic terrorists? A newly released document appears to provide evidence that in 1999 the Taliban welcomed 'Islamic relations with Iraq' to mediate among the Taliban, the Northern Alliance and Russia, and that the Taliban invited Iraqi officials to Afghanistan."
Along with the translation of the posted documents, an analysis is provided by the the security researchers functioning as contemporary historians, who have lived thru the times now so soon under the microscope. A sample from the first analytic post on the Fox site:
Why would the Taliban and/or Al Qaeda turn to secular Saddam for help? Many commentators have stated that collusion between the two was impossible because of diametric religious and political beliefs. But if you examine the historical context of this document, a clear picture of a desperate Taliban comes through.If chippping away at the massive amount of untranslated material from Hussein's archives continues in the direction indicated by this first item, it could well be tht President George W. Bush's position will be qute largely vincdicated, but whether or not that turns out to be the case, the project surely promises to become a major contribution to our historical understanding of our own times. - Owlb
This meeting appears to have taken place a few weeks after Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf took over the Pakistani government in a coup that threatened to remove Pakistan's key support for the Taliban. Russia and Iran were supporting the Northern Alliance at war with the Taliban in Afghanistan. At this time it also was widely reported in Pakistan that US forces were about to attack Afghanistan to get Usama. The U.N. and even Arab conferences were making clear their grievances with the Taliban. This is a time when the Taliban and its associates (like both Fazlurs) in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan had few friends.
This series of threats may have spurred the Taliban to seek out Saddam, a mutual enemy of the U.S. and friend of the Russians, if a prior relationship between Saddam and the Taliban did not already exist. Thus, it seems Maulana Fazlur Rahman is a lynch-pin of the relationship between the Saddam regime, the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
The strong ties between Al Qaeda and the Taliban, and their joint responsibility for terrorism, are clear and well documented. This translated notebook segment provides possible evidence that the Saddam regime and the Taliban were planning diplomatic and possibly operational ties with each other.
Further Resources:
Saddam Dossier Archieves Page
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