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Originally Posted by Bluesman
There was some terrific intel that has made it into open-source since 9/11, re: Saddam's inner circle making panic moves of their families and assets. If they'd been in any way culpable, it would've hapenened in slo-mo BEFORE 9/11, not the first week AFTER, and in such an obvious fashion.
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Hadn't seen that. Good point.
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They KNEW they were about to get the hammer dropped on 'em, though, even if they had aught to do with it. And they started making plans to dime out their intel services leadership, just in case we ever demanded that Iraq give us some patsies and scapegoats to slake our blood-lust, which they figgered we'd be in the mood for, because that's how THEY roll, and they thought we'd have to have some public executions to make our public NOT demand that we nuke Iraq off the map. So they were basically going to give up some of their top guys, IF their lives would buy us off. Think about how savage that is.
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I hear you saying they planned to offer up some big fish of theirs to buy up off. I hadn't that. That would be admitted culpability, wouldn't it?
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... As I researched and steered collection on the question, it became obvious that if Iraq had been involved, it was SO rogue and SO unsanctioned that if these guys even existed (they didn't), they were no more 'Iraqi' than the hijackers were 'Saudi'.
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I assume that is more of less our intel position.