The things we learn from leaked documents…
At least three Guantanamo detainees identified Sadkhan as a henchman for Saddam Hussein.
An Uzbek named Oybek Jamoldinivich Jabbarov, told authorities that Sadkhan “admitted working as a liaison between [the] Taliban Intelligence Directorate and Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein.” Jabbarov explained that Sadkhan and another Iraqi once held at Guantanamo, Hassan Abdul Said, “traveled between Iraq and Afghanistan ferrying unidentified supplies from Iraq through Iran on multiple occasions.” Sadkhan “would receive money from the Taliban in exchange for these supplies.”
Both Said, who claimed to have worked for the Iraqi opposition, and Sadkhan are described as “conduits” between the Taliban and Saddam’s regime in declassified files. …
Another Iraqi Gitmo detainee named Abbas Habid Rumi al Naely told military officials that Sadkhan “was a member of the Amin Emergency Response Group while living in Iraq.” According to Naely, the Amin Group was “an elite Iraqi intelligence squad responsible for locating and either torturing or killing people opposed to Iraqi President, [sic] Saddam Hussein.” …
Still another Iraqi once held at Guantanamo, Haydar Jabbar Hafez al Tamimi, identified Sadkhan “as a former member of the Iraqi Interior Ministry security forces” who fought in the Iraq-Iran war. Tamimi described Sadkhan as a relentless mercenary who used heavy-handed tactics to recruit fighters.
And:
Sadkhan’s fellow Iraqi, Hassan Abdul Said, told U.S. authorities that Sadkhan received two payments from Osama bin Laden. The first came around September, 2001 and totaled approximately $11,000. Bin Laden transferred another $100,000 to Sadkhan in October 2001.
Al Wafa, an NGO that was really a cover for al Qaeda’s operations, facilitated both transfers. Al Wafa has been designated a terrorist front by both the United Nations and U.S. Treasury Department.
Read the rest, it’s fascinating. So who is this Sadkhan guy? He’s an al Qaeda terrorist of Iraqi origin, picked up in Afghanistan after the capture of Masir-i-Sharif, and was held held at Gitmo. Sadkhan’s reputation is such that other al Qaeda goons feared him, for his sadism and violence. Though he was a high risk detainee, and one with a great deal of knowledge about al Qaeda, Iraqi intelligence in the Saddam era, the Taliban’s drug trafficking — a whole lot of things our government needs to know more about — he was repatriated back to Iraq by the Obama administration in June 2009.
(hat tip Katie Pavlich)
Maybe Obama did not know he was such a bad guy, right? I mean, it’s possible, right?
So, is that it? He’s not a knave; he’s a fool?
Soon the left will be saying: so, Bush knew the Iraqis were involved in 9/11 and it took him a year and a half to respond???? Impeach!!!
Why didn’t Bush defend himself against the mad dogs of the left?
It’s looking more and more like that was the major failure of his tenure since by 2008 people who ought to have stongly supported him had lost interest or passion, which in turn allowed a lunatic 20% to control the dialogue and the election.
It has some resemblance to his attempts to reign in Fannie Mae. Sure it’s great to hear they tried 17 times or whatever, but where would we have been today if he hadn’t accepted the stiff arm from the radicals and had done the right thing.
As the country’s situation spirals into more and more dangerous territory, I’m having less and less sympathy for the failures of Dubya and Rowe, even though what they did is arguably defensible. A lot of things are argualbly defensible. Didn’t Rowe know that the barbarians on the left were foaming with hatred and money? And now Rowe is like the lead rino, doing his best to quash our passion so his buddies can kick the can down the road another time.
“Why didn’t Bush defend himself against the mad dogs of the left?”
Possibly because it would have revealed too much?
If so, consider what a guy Bush was – taking political heat rather than reveal intelligence that would have vindicated him.
the reason for invading Iraq remains outside the 9/11 – AlQueda – WMD – Sadaam is a bad mna and anything else one cares to include to justify things case and they still haven’t come clean. Considering how the Saudi’s demanded US attack IRAN, I get to wondering are the Saudi’s running out of oil?
Please restate that in English.
The reason Bush didn’t defend himself on his fundamentally correct approach to Iraq is not a result of his personal humility, it is because he is much more afraid of tea party populism (anti-elitism) than he is of the disingenuous attacks of the Progressive elites.
Huh?
Mr. Preston:
How does it feel to have stumbled across what will be the most widely-ignored, (by the MSM), news story of 2011?
Anyone who believed that our enemy Saddam would NOT have at least made liasion with our enemies of Al Qaeda was either incredibly naiive to the point of stupidity, or was actively playing for a team not our own.
At this point however, the slobbering moonbats on the Left have had it programmed into their autonomous nervous systems that Saddam had nothing whatsoever to do with Al Qaeda, and could no more change their minds in light of fresh evidence than they could cease breathing.
I remember hearing this name come up when researching Saddam and terrorism for http://www.regimeofterror.com