Powell: Too Soon to Link Spain, al - Qaida

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-US-Spain.html
Powell: Too Soon to Link Spain, al - Qaida
Mods I could not see this posted lock if dup

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: March 14, 2004


Filed at 5:31 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States has no evidence now that al-Qaida was behind the railway bombings in Spain, Bush administration officials said Sunday.

The Spanish government initially blamed the Basque separatist group ETA, but authorities now are analyzing a videotape in which al-Qaida reportedly claimed responsibility.

``I think that we don't know if this is the ETA or some other terrorist activity,'' Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said on CBS' ``Face the Nation.''

..more at AP

[acmavm]

1. OOPS, too late. Election is over. Spain is now realigning with France

and Germany. They just told the bush* company to f*** off.

Oh well, we still have a Britain and a few third world island nations to back us up, right?

[loudmouth_liberal]

2. we cant control al queda

What sec. Powell, and bush are really saying, is that even though they have waisted american time, money, lives, and political capitol, the u.s. still can't control, or even monitor the actions of al queda.

[nolabels]

3. "waisted american time" check for your size at the tail-er :D

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=709710

[jeanmarc]

4. He's right....

It is too soon to link them to Al-Qaeda, but then again his silly, stupid misadministration linked Al-Qaeda to Iraq as well. Probably depends on what the political gain is to link to Al-Qaeda in the first place.

[SKKY]

5. I'm convinced these guys don't pay attention to anything...

Didn't he see what happens when one so blatantly spins the truth for purely political gain? He doesn't know if this is ETA or some other terrorist activity? Well I do, and I'll make sure to spell it out for him in November when I vote Kerry in!

[Rex]

6. Funny how they only link Al Qaida when it is convenient politically

and people wonder why I think the BFEE had a hand in 911? It's like a no-brainer!

[nolabels]

7. Lets seen now, with all them assets involved with personal and billions...

of dollars and mostly this large mechanism of this whole large enchilada called US interests you can't figure it out?

Come on now, they were trading in the stock market on the upcoming disaster the day before WTC 9/11 happened and had radio announcements 10 minutes after the planes hit on who the people were supposedly doing were.

Color me skeptic :shrug:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0203-01.htm
Published on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 by Knight-Ridder
Bush's Inquiry into Iraq Intelligence Must Include Cheney, Pentagon
by Jonathan S. Landay, Warren P. Strobel and Joseph L. Galloway

(snip)
A senior administration official said that during a three-day pre-speech review, Powell rejected more than half of a 45-page assessment on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction compiled by Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, and based on materials assembled by pro-invasion hard-liners in the Pentagon and the White House.

Powell also jettisoned 75 percent of a separate report on al Qaida, said the official.

Still, he said, Libby continued pressing Powell unsuccessfully right up until a few minutes before the speech to include dubious information purportedly linking Saddam to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Bush said Monday he would name an independent bipartisan commission to review intelligence failures in Iraq. It would also look at what is known about efforts by Iran, North Korea and terrorist groups to obtain nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

Two congressional committees, an internal CIA board and a White House advisory panel are already reviewing the Iraq intelligence.

Bush’s decision to name an independent commission followed assertions by David Kay, who quit last month as chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, that Saddam had not hidden the banned chemical and biological warfare stockpiles. The president had cited such weapons as his prime justification for the March invasion.

Bush and GOP leaders in Congress had resisted a demand by Democrats for an independent review of the Iraq intelligence, but calls by Kay and key Republicans last week for such an inquiry forced the president to reconsider.
(snip)

[samsingh]

8. it wasn't too soon to connect Iraq and al queda

[Barkley]

9. Good one! n/t.

[struggle4progress]

10. They're a bunch of cold warriors

They haven't known who to hate since the Wall came down. Watch them blame the Spanish socialists.

[burrowowl]

11. Too soon to link Spain/Al-Qaida?

What about the CIA while we are at it?