18/09: Sadam and bin Laden
Category: America and the World
Posted by: an okie gardener
CNN is not infallible, but Gateway Pundit posted a cached CNN report from 1999 that links the two. Here is the link to the CNN article. How things change; now it is dogma in the MSM that bin Laden and Sadam would not have had anything to do with one another.
Here is the relevant paragraph:
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has offered asylum to bin Laden, who openly supports Iraq against the Western powers.
Despite repeated demands from Washington, the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden after the August 7 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, demanding proof of his involvement in terrorist activities.
However, in recent weeks, both the United States and Britain have renewed their pressure on the Taliban to expel bin Laden.
Hat tip Wizbang.
Here is the relevant paragraph:
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has offered asylum to bin Laden, who openly supports Iraq against the Western powers.
Despite repeated demands from Washington, the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden after the August 7 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, demanding proof of his involvement in terrorist activities.
However, in recent weeks, both the United States and Britain have renewed their pressure on the Taliban to expel bin Laden.
Hat tip Wizbang.
A Waco Farmer wrote:
Does anybody remember Hitler and Stalin? Stalin broke the hearts of millions of American communists when he did the unthinkable and pursued his own perceived interests and signed the nonaggression pact with Hitler in 1939.
Sometimes bad guys who don't like each other very much are Machiavellian enough to choke down their antipathy for larger goals.