Friday, June 25, 2004
Dick Cheney: more weird claims
- Saddam Hussein knew [al Zarqawi] was in Baghdad because we arranged to have that information passed to — to a third country intelligence service. In Baghdad, he ran the poisons facility, largest poisons facility we've ever found that al Qaeda was operating up in northeastern Iraq. He had about two dozen associates with him in Baghdad from an outfit called Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which had merged with al Qaeda.
Zawahiri, who's bin Laden's number two, used to run the EIJ. And all of them, that operation, was in Baghdad prior to the time we launched in there.
He's a man who ordered the killing of Laurence Foley. He tried to smuggle riacin and other products out of that poisons factory. People had been trained in the poisons factory in order to..
(CROSSTALK)
CAVUTO: Where is all that stuff now? Where are all those?
CHENEY: Well, we destroyed the facility when we went in and...
CAVUTO: Right.
CHENEY: ... we launched air strikes on them when we first went in.
Reviewing:
- The US informed Saddam Hussein that al Zarqawi was in Baghdad. al Zarqawi has been toted as the "best evidence" of an al Qaeda/Hussein alliance. So we informed Hussein of his alliance?
- In Baghdad, al Zarqawi ran a poison facility in northeastern Iraq
- We found the "poison factory"
- The reason we didn't find the facility and it's products was because we destroyed it in airstrikes
Bizarre.
// posted by Erik @ 6/25/2004 07:02:00 PM
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