# Iraq now a suspected financier of the WTC/Pentagon disaster (link)

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**Created:** [September 12, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-now-a-suspected-financier-of-the-wtc-pentagon-disaster-link/81095 "2001-09-12T16:10:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-now-a-suspected-financier-of-the-wtc-pentagon-disaster-link/81095/1 "2001-09-12T16:10:23Z")

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So says Israeli intelligence:

[http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking\_1.html](http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_1.html)

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> \*\*Iraq recruited Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden and his Islamic allies to carry out the suicide attacks around the United States, according to Israeli intelligence.
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> Israeli officials and intelligence analysts said the suicide hijackings that downed the World Trade Center and destroyed parts of the Pentagon was too large an operation for any one group. The analysts said the operation was also too big even for a coalition of Islamic terrorists headed by Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden is accused of masterminding the bombings of the U.S. embassies in eastern African in 1998.
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> Intelligence sources briefed the Cabinet of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on late Tuesday, hours after the catastrophe in New York and Washington. The sources were quoted as telling the Cabinet that a Middle East government was probably the sponsor of the attack.\*\*

How the heck do you fight that kind of fanaticism? My God …

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**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-now-a-suspected-financier-of-the-wtc-pentagon-disaster-link/81095/2 "2001-09-12T16:17:20Z")

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With a very big bomb. Or a very intense campaign of personal, detailed, retribution on those who planned, financed, and executed the mission.

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**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-now-a-suspected-financier-of-the-wtc-pentagon-disaster-link/81095/3 "2001-09-12T16:38:35Z")

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"The **most likely** sponsor for such an attack, the sources said, is Iraq. "

Doesn’t sound like a confirmation to me yet. But if the story is true, it shows the amazing folly of us not eliminating Saddam.