Powell denies Saddam role in Iraq attacks: Aljazeera

[Nancy Waterman]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1DE16F08-80EE-46AA-84EA-637A398A400D.htm

Is this story breaking in Aljazeera? Is it anywhere else? I don't know what to think about this.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said there was no evidence to suggest that Saddam Hussein was coordinating the Iraqi resistance attacks.

Denying a newspaper report that quoted an unnamed senior official as saying the ousted Iraqi president was behind the attacks, Powell insisted there were no evidences to back the claim.

"I speak on the record and I don’t know what these sources or who they were saying, but when I saw the story and came in and pulled up all the intelligence I could from my people at the agency, I don’t know the basis of those stories," Powell said.

"I don’t know where he is or what he is doing, but we really don’t have the evidence to put together a claim that he is pulling all the strings among these remnants in Baghdad and other parts of the country that are causing us the difficulty," he added.

[realFedUp]

1. Intelligence anyone...

Is he using intelligence he received from the real
CIA or the Wolfowitz/Perle adjunct?
Anything he says frankly is suspect.

[Nancy Waterman]

2. I'm confused

I thought the administration line was that this was all coordinated by Saddam, and there was nothing of a real resistance movement in it. Now Powell says it isn't Saddam. Which story do they want us to believe? The sheeple need to be clear who the bad guys are.

[qwertyMike]

3. Al-Qaeda - Kida - whatever

That's the official lie I read today. The recent attacks have the Al-Q 'signature' apparently.

So it MUST be Saddam. They don't want to admit it.

Osama Bin-Golfin'

[LittleApple81]

4. Look at the Nightline thread tonight. He said it to Koppel. (n/t)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=627767&mesg_id=627767

[truthisfreedom]

5. they can't afford to admit that hussein might actually be active, when

they can't even find the weasel.

[VolcanoJen]

6. Here's the link to the Powell's Nightline comments (10/31)

No official transcript yet, unfortunately, although the press received Powell's comments ahead of the Nightline airing.

There's some interesting stuff in here...

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20031031_368.html

Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Friday he saw no signs that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was active in coordinating attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq.

"Notwithstanding press reports to the contrary, I see no evidence that he's pulling any strings," Powell told the ABC program "Nightline" in an interview to be broadcast on Friday.

"I don't know where he is or what he's doing, but we really don't have the evidence to put together a claim that he is pulling all the strings among these remnants in Baghdad and other parts of the country that are causing us the difficulty," he added, according to a transcript released in advance.

[teryang]

7. No he isn't pulling ALL THE STRINGS

...but that doesn't mean that an organization successor to his OVERTHROWN regime isn't pulling many of them.

The reason this story has to be denied is because now that it is obvious that there is an organized coordinated resistance instead of scattered bathist die hards, the second stated objective of the war has not been achieved. If you remember the first objective was to rid Iraq of the WMD threat that didn't exist. Then the second reason came to the fore, to rid Iraq of Saddam's regime. Guess what? That objective which has not yet been achieved was dropped by the wayside like the search for Osama bin Laden. Then the objective morphed into creating a captive market economy for American corporations. In other words, colonialism. Colonialism can exist side by side with the incipient resistance government in utero, while the corporate war profiteers and cynical political exploiters do their business.

[0007]

8. Powell's creditability is in the toilet!

......This man is a cover-up artist and liar.

[UpInArms]

9. some mouthpiece in this mis-administration

has to denounce SH - because everyone must remember that "we" overthrew SH's "reign of terror" and to admit that SH still controls Iraq is to admit failure.

Since the new line is that we "liberated" the Iraqis - that this war was not for WMDs or biological agents or "nukular" weapons or any of the other lies - the *Co cannot allow SH to "reappear" in any form -