“Baghdad has a long history of supporting terrorism,” said George Tenet, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. “It has also had contacts with al-Qaeda,” he told the Senate’s Armed Services Committee. (Source: BBC News, March 19, 2002

US says Iraq linked to al-Qaeda

We clearly know that there were in the past and have been contacts between senior Iraqi officials and members of Al Qaeda going back for actually quite a long time," Rice said. “We know too that several of the [Al Qaeda] detainees, in particular some high-ranking detainees, have said that Iraq provided some training to Al Qaeda in chemical weapons development.” (Source: Fox News, September 26, 2002;

Rice: Iraq Providing Shelter, Chemical Weapons Help to Al Qaeda

Exhibit A – A $1 trillion lawsuit claims Iraq knew that Osama bin Laden was targeting New York prior to Sept. 11 – and that Saddam Hussein encouraged terrorists because he wanted revenge for losing the Gulf War. The action was filed in Manhattan federal court on behalf of 1,400 victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and their families and names bin Laden, his al Qaeda organization and Iraq as defendants.

Exhibit B – The horrific events of September 11th were the result of a world-wide terror conspiracy against the United States involving primarily AL QAEDA and IRAQ, who have conspired for many years to attack the United States and murder United States’ citizens. Defendants supported, conspired, aided and abetted, sponsored, planned and executed the September 11th terror attacks that killed thousands of people and injured many thousands more.

Exhibit C – IRAQ has sworn revenge against the United States since 1992 for IRAQ’s humiliating defeat in the Persian Gulf War. Since IRAQ could not defeat the U.S. Military it resorted to terror attacks on U.S. citizens. In order to avoid another confrontation with U.S. Military forces, IRAQ contracted with or sponsored Islamic fundamentalists who were willing to commit terrorist acts on Iraq’s behalf. Indeed in 1993, Iraqi agents tried to destroy the World Trade Center by planting a bomb in the World Trade Center parking garage.

Exhibit D – For many years AL QAEDA wanted to drive the United States from the Arabian peninsula, topple Middle East governments supported by the United States, including Egypt and Israel, and create an Islamic empire based upon its narrow interpretation of the Koran. Over the years, AL QAEDA has grown as it absorbed or allied with other like-minded Islamic terrorist groups, including the EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD.

Exhibit E – For the last 10 years, IRAQ’s leadership and AL QAEDA shared a virulent hatred of the United States.

Exhibit F – As early as 1992, AL QAEDA terrorists established close working relations with IRAQI INTELLIGENCE agents in the Sudan, Afghanistan, IRAQ and elsewhere. Soon thereafter, IRAQI INTELLIGENCE decided to support AL QAEDA and to employ AL QAEDA terrorists to carry out IRAQ’s terror attacks. The IRAQ-AL QAEDA relationship benefited IRAQ because it provided that state with trained terrorists willing to die in terror attacks. As a secular state, IRAQ does not have a large number of citizens wishing to become martyr warriors. Additionally, by using AL QAEDA suicide terrorists, IRAQ, could disavow involvement in attacks and avoid retribution. The relationship benefited AL QAEDA who received support, funding, facilities and training that it needed to carry out its terror campaigns.

Exhibit G – During the mid 1990’s IRAQ began actively supporting AL QAEDA operations by providing intelligence, training, weapons, supplies, passports, travel documents and financial support to co-conspirators. Significantly, one of IRAQ’s training camps contained the fuselage of a Boeing 707 used to train AL QAEDA terrorists in hijacking commercial aircraft.

Exhibit H – AL QAEDA, backed by IRAQ, carried out the September 11th terror attacks with the financial and logistical support of numerous individuals and organizations. These individuals and organizations provided AL QAEDA with the means to recruit, train, and employ thousands of terrorists, including the twenty assigned the ghastly mission to murder United States citizens and destroy U.S. landmarks on September 11, 2001.

Exhibit I – Since the early 1990s, IRAQ and IRAQI INTELLIGENCE have used both Iraqi agents and independent “contractors” to commit terrorist acts against the United States in revenge for Iraq’s Gulf War defeat. AL QAEDA was IRAQ’s favorite partner in crime and terror.

Exhibit J – Upon information and belief, there have been numerous meetings between IRAQI Intelligence agents and high-ranking AL QAEDA terrorists to plan terror attacks. Once such meeting occurred in 1992, when ZAWAHIRI (EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD leader and AL QAEDA officer) met with IRAQI INTELLIGENCE agents in Baghdad, IRAQ over several days. An IRAQI serving with the TALIBAN who fled Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, was captured in Kurdistan and has corroborated this meeting and confirmed that IRAQI contacts with AL QAEDA began in 1992.

Exhibit K – While AL QAEDA’s presence was growing in the Sudan in 1992, the Government of IRAQ was also developing close ties with the Sudanese government. Sudan supported IRAQ during the Gulf War and allowed IRAQ to establish a major IRAQI INTELLIGENCE center in the Sudan through IRAQ’s ambassador to Khartoum, Abd al Samad al-Ta’ish. Al Ta’ish was a highly placed IRAQI INTELLIGENCE agent, who brought 35 other intelligence officers with him to the Sudan to establish a base for Iraqi operations. Al Ta’ish remained in the Sudan through the summer of 1998. IRAQ arranged to smuggle scud missiles, chemical weapons and uranium into the Sudan using Sudanese diplomatic mail privileges and other means. Sudan agreed to store this material for IRAQ for safekeeping after the Gulf War to help circumvent U.N. weapons inspections.

Exhibit L – During the early 1990s, Sudan’s Sheikh Hassan al-Tourabi of the Islamic National Front arranged meetings between BIN-LADEN and IRAQI INTELLIGENCE officials. BIN LADEN met with FARUQ AL-HIJAZI, an IRAQI INTELLIGENCE agent in the Sudan who would later head IRAQI INTELLIGENCE for SADDAM HUSSEIN. BIN LADEN again met with IRAQI INTELLIGENCE officers in 1994 and 1995 in the Sudan. At these meetings, BIN-LADEN and IRAQI INTELLIGENCE secret service director FARUQ AL-HIJAZI agreed to work together on terrorist projects directed against the U.S.

Exhibit M – During his time in Sudan, BIN LADEN became interested in using Iraqi chemical and biological weapons and explored plans to use crop dusting aircraft to disperse toxins as the IRAQI INTELLIGENCE and military had done a few years earlier in Kurdistan.

Exhibit N – On February 26, 1993 a bomb was detonated in the World Trade Center underground parking lot, killing six U.S. citizens. IRAQI sponsored terrorists planned, financed, executed and carried out that World Trade Center bombing.

Exhibit O – The 1993 WTC bombing, took place on the Friday before the two year anniversary of IRAQ’s defeat in Kuwait, which was February 28, 1991. The anniversary in 1993, was a Sunday and few people would have been working at the World Trade Center that day; and IRAQ and the terrorists wanted to maximize the number of American casualties.

Exhibit P – During the initial planning of the WTC bombing, Mahmud Abu Halima (who was later convicted for his role in the bombing) was in regular and frequent contact with his uncle Kadri Abu Bakr, who lived in IRAQ and had been a member of a PLO faction allied with SADDAM HUSSEIN. Shortly after these calls, the mastermind of the bombing, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, an IRAQI INTELLIGENCE agent, traveled to the United States using travel documents forged in Kuwait during the Iraqi occupation of that country in 1991.

Exhibit Q – Ramzi Yousef arrived in New York on September 1, 1992 using an Iraqipassport and requesting asylum. On December 31, 1992, he presented photocopies of passports for Abdul Basit at the Pakistani consulate in New York claiming to be Basit and requesting replacement of his “lost” passport. The real Basit was a Pakistani citizen who had moved to Kuwait and disappeared during the Iraqi occupation in August 1990. IRAQI INTELLIGENCE had access to the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry files and upon information and belief, inserted Yousef’s fingerprints into the file and provided him with photocopies of two older passports from Basit’s file. The Pakistani Consulate, accordingly, provided Yousef a temporary passport, based on the false documents. This provided Yousef with a means to escape the U.S. two days after the World Trade Center bombing. In fleeing the United States after the bombing, Yousef first traveled through Baluchistan, an uncontrolled region of Iran straddling the border of Iran and Pakistan with strong ties to IRAQ. By the following year, 1994, Yousef was living in the Phillippines. He fled there however, after authorities discovered a plan he was working on to bomb United States’ airliners. Yousef fled to Pakistan and was eventually sheltered at an AL QAEDA guesthouse. He was arrested in February 1995 in Pakistan and extradited to the U.S. for prosecution and was eventually convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspiracy.

Exhibit R – ABDUL RAHMAN YASIN, who was born in the United States to IRAQI parents but had been raised in Iraq, was questioned in New York and New Jersey in connection with the World Trade Center bombing, but was released after appearing to cooperate with U.S. officials. He fled the country the next day and traveled to Baghdad, IRAQ. U.S. prosecutors later learned that he, along with others, had prior training in bomb making, and had mixed the chemicals and constructed the bomb that was used on the World Trade Center. IRAQI INTELLIGENCE knew of Yasin’s presence in IRAQ and provided him refuge. On August 4, 1993 Yasin was indicted in absentia for the World Trade Center bombing.

Exhibit S – In June 1994 YASIN was seen in Baghdad by an ABC news correspondent who was told that YASIN worked for IRAQI government. U.S. law enforcement officials confirmed that fugitive YASIN has been sheltered in IRAQ, a continuing violation of United Nationals Security Council Resolution 687 which makes it unlawful to harbor a suspected terrorist. In June 2002, YASIN was interviewed in Baghdad by Leslie Stahl from CBS. Yasin still remains in Iraq.

Exhibit T – Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmud Abu Halima and Ahmad Mohammed Ajaj were all eventually convicted in the Southern District of New York for the 1993 conspiracy to bomb the World Trade Center.

Exhibit U – Following his arrest in 1995, Ramzi Yousef told U.S. investigators that his intent was to create an explosion that would cause one of the World Trade Center Towers to fall over onto the other, destroying both and causing massive American casualties. Yousef had also planned to use sodium cyanide to create a toxic cyanide gas cloud throughout the area that would poison those in the building. Fortunately, the sodium cyanide was consumed in the blast and vaporized. Before the Gulf War, IRAQ had the largest and most diversified terrorist chemical weapons program in stockpiles of sodium cyanide, and had experience in the late 1980’s using chemical weapons against its Kurdish population. Upon information and belief, it was IRAQ that supplied Yousef with the sodium cyanide.

Exhibit V – During the worldwide hunt for fugitive Ramzi Yousef, he was living in the Phillippines with KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED. KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED’S involvement in terror activities became known when law enforcement authorities interrupted a plot to blow up a dozen U.S. commercial airliners flying to the United States from Asian cities. MOHAMMED’S participation in the planning of these acts of terror was uncovered by authorities after Yousef accidently started a fire in his apartment in Manila while mixing bomb chemicals. Filipino authorities were suspicious when they saw chemicals, bomb making instructions and timing devices in the apartment and they seized those items along with a computer containing the details of the airliner bombing plans. MOHAMMED and Yousef fled the country, before they could be arrested.

Exhibit W – MOHAMMED eventually found sanctuary in Doha, Qatar. In early 1996, MOHAMMED was visited in Qatar by BIN LADEN. Around the same time, FBI director, Louis Freeh, wrote to the Qatari government requesting that it surrender MOHAMMED to U.S. authorities. Not long after the FBI request, with the assistance of Qatari officials, MOHAMMED fled to Prague, Czech Republic, foiling U.S. attempts to arrest him.

Exhibit X – MOHAMMED’s whereabouts after his escape to Prague in May 1996 are not known, but documents and AL QAEDA members captured in Afghanistan identified MOHAMMED as a leader in the AL QAEDA terror network and actively involved in the planning, logistics and financing of the September 11th attacks. His participation in the planned hijacking of U.S. commercial airliners was not new for him. MOHAMMED is a close associate of ABU ZUBAYDAH, a top BIN LADEN associate who was fully aware of the targets of the September 11th hijackers. ZUBAYDAH is in the custody of United States authorities and is providing some information about AL QAEDA operations.

Exhibit Y – In 1992 and 1993, AL QAEDA trained terrorists in Somalia and attempted to incite an Islamic jihad there against U.S. military forces stationed in Mogadishu, Somalia by working with Somali warlord, General Farah Adid. BIN LADEN issued a fatwa urging Muslims to attack the U.S. and U.N. military forces stationed there during Operation Restore Hope. BIN Laden, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, MUHAMMAD ATEF, SAIF AL ADEL, ABDULLAH AHMED ABDULLAH, MUHSIN MUSA MATWALLI ATWAH, a/ka “Abdel Rahman,” FAZUL ABDULLAH MOHAMMED, a/k/a “Harun,” AHMED MOHAMED HAMED ALI and MOHAMED SADEEK ODEH, along with Abu Ubaidah al Banshiri, provided weapons, military training and assistance to the Somali tribes working for Adid who were opposed to the U.N. intervention in Somalia and urged them to attack U.S. military personnel. On October 3 and 4, 1993, these forces did attack U.S. military personnel in Mogadishu and killed 18 U.S. servicemen.

Exhibit Z – From 1996 until 2001, BIN LADEN with the financial and logistical support of OMAR and others in the TALIBAN and IRAQ and IRAQI INTELLIGENCE, created, supplied and operated at least five training camps in order to create an “Islamic Foreign Legion” capable of attacking their enemies throughout the world. These camps trained men from 15 nations in guerrilla warfare, terrorist activities, rocket warfare, demolition and bombing, including the use of mines, grenades, TNT, nitroglycerine and plastic explosives. Classes were also given in “how to kill a policeman” and “traps, murder and terrorist moves.”

Exhibit Aa – In February 1997, BIN LADEN publicly expressed his support for IRAQ in its conflict with the United States stating: “The hearts of the Muslims are filled with hatred towards the United States of America and the American president for American conduct towards IRAQ.”

Exhibit Bb – Having decided to carry out acts of terrorism, SADDAM HUSSEIN, with the advice and prompting of his son and IRAQI INTELLIGENCE chief, QUSAY HUSSEIN and his other son UDAY HUSSEIN, head of an IRAQI INTELLIGENCE Subdivision known as the “Fedayeen” and “Al-Qare,” concluded that a campaign of terrorist attacks against the United States, under the banner of BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA, was the most effective means of both deflecting U.S. attempts to topple his regime and obtaining IRAQI revenge.

Exhibit Cc – IRAQ upon information and belief, agreed to supply arms to AL QAEDA and provide AL QAEDA with access to and training in the use of chemical and biological weapons and agreed to instruct AL QAEDA terror trainers at its Salman Pak camp in Baghdad that contained a Boeing 707 used to practice hijacking. IRAQ also agreed to supply AL QAEDA terrorists with new identities and passports from Yemen and the United Arab Emirates.

Exhibit Dd – AL QAEDA agreed to provide protection from political opponents to IRAQ and SADDAM HUSSEIN, and to commit assassinations and other acts of violence to create instability in regions of IRAQ, particularly Kurdistan, to assist the regime of SADDAM HUSSEIN. AL QAEDA further agreed to provide trained terrorists, assassins and martyrs to carry out terror attacks in concert with IRAQ against their common enemies, including the United States.

Exhibit Ee – In their February 22, 1998 fatwa, BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA expressly referenced the United States’ “continuing aggression” towards IRAQ as one of their reasons for calling on all Muslims to kill Americans “wherever and whenever” they are found: The best proof of this is the Americans’ continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the [Arabian] Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, still they are helpless. The BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA fatwa also cited the alleged “great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people” by the United States, as well as the United States alleged “eagerness to destroy Iraq.”

Exhibit Ff – Additional fatwas of a similar nature were issued in May 1998 and published in Al-Quds under the banner of the ULEMA UNION OF AFGHANISTAN. A May 29, 1998 fatwa issued by BIN LADEN called for the use of a nuclear bomb to “terrorize the Jews and Crusaders who were enemies of God.” At the time BIN LADEN was seeking to obtain nuclear material from IRAQ and others who possessed nuclear material and was in the process of developing nuclear weapons.

Exhibit Gg – Between April 25 and May 1, 1998, two of BIN LADEN’s senior military commanders, MUHAMMAD ABU-ISLAM and ABDULLAH QASSIM, visited Baghdad for discussions with SADDAM HUSSEIN’s son — QUSAY HUSSEIN — the “czar” of IRAQI INTELLIGENCE.

Exhibit Hh – QUSAY HUSSEIN’s participation in those meetings highlights the importance of the talks in both symbolic and practical terms. Upon information and belief, as a direct result of these meetings, IRAQ again made commitments to provide training, intelligence, clandestine Saudi border crossings, financial support and weapons and explosives to AL QAEDA.

Exhibit Ii – IRAQI INTELLIGENCE officials met with BIN LADEN in Afghanistan several more times. A second group of BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA operatives from Saudi Arabia were then trained by IRAQI INTELLIGENCE in IRAQ to smuggle weapons and explosives into Saudi Arabia and other countries, which they later accomplished in an effort to carry out future terrorist acts of violence. A third group of BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA operatives received a month of sophisticated guerrilla operations training from IRAQI INTELLIGENCE officials later in the Summer of 1998.

Exhibit Jj – Despite philosophical and religious differences with SADDAM HUSSEIN, BIN LADEN continually sought to strengthen and reinforce the support he and AL QAEDA received from IRAQ. In mid-July 1998, BIN LADEN sent Dr. AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, the Egyptian co-founder of AL QAEDA, to IRAQ to meet with senior Iraqi officials, including Iraqi vice president TAHA YASSIN RAMADAN. Upon information and belief, the purpose of this meeting was to discuss and plan a joint strategy for a terrorist campaign against the United States.

Exhibit Kk – Upon information and belief, IRAQI INTELLIGENCE officials pledged IRAQ’s full support and cooperation on the condition that BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA promised not to incite those groups inside IRAQ opposed to the regime of Iraqi dictator SADDAM HUSSEIN.

Exhibit Ll – During the July 1998 visit ZAWAHIRI toured an IRAQI military base and nuclear and chemical weapons facility near al-Fallujah in IRAQ and upon information and belief, observed training by IRAQI INTELLIGENCE officials of AL QAEDA operatives at the al-Nasiriyah military and chemical weapons facility in IRAQ.

Exhibit Mm – To demonstrate its commitment to IRAQ and its anti-U.S. policies, in the Spring of 1998, AL QAEDA planned terrorist bombing attacks on the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. FAZUL ABDULLAH MOHAMED, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, MUSTAFA MOHAMED FADHIL, Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-‘Owali, SHEIKH AHMED SALIM SWEDAN, FAHID MOHAMED ALLY MSALAM and an individual known as ABDULLAH AZZAM were chosen as some of the AL QAEDA terrorists who would conduct the coordinated attacks in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam.

Exhibit Nn – On July 30, 1998, IRAQ warned it would take action unless the United Nations embargo was lifted. IRAQ blamed the United States for the United Nations embargo. On August 4, 1998, IRAQ, refused to cooperate with the United Nations weapons inspectors in IRAQ and talks for a resolution of the crisis collapsed, causing U.N. inspectors to leave.

Exhibit Oo – In December 1998, after a stand off between the U.N. and IRAQ and a discovery of weapons violations in IRAQ, the U.S. led U.N. allies in a four-day air strike on IRAQ. Iraqi Trade Minister MUHAMMAD MAHDI SALAH then stated that he expected terrorist activities against the United States to increase as a result of the bombing of IRAQ. The Arabic language daily newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabic cited the cooperation between IRAQ, BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA in a late December 1998 editorial, which predicted that “President SADDAM HUSSEIN, whose country was subjected to a four day air strike, will look for support in taking revenge on the United States and Britain by cooperating with Saudi oppositionist Osama Bin-Laden, whom the United States considers to be the most wanted person in the world.” The editorial noted that this type of cooperation was already taking place, considering that “Bin-Laden was planning on moving to IRAQ before the recent strike.”

Exhibit Pp – Following the December 1998 air strikes on IRAQ, SADDAM HUSSEIN dispatched FARUQ AL-HIJAZI to Kandahar, Afghanistan in order to meet with BIN LADEN and plot their revenge.

Exhibit Qq – QUSAY HUSSEIN also dispatched representatives to follow-up with BIN LADEN and obtain his firm commitment to exact revenge against the United States for the December 1998 bombing campaign. IRAQ offered BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA an open-ended commitment to joint operations against the United States and its “moderate” Arab allies in exchange for an absolute guarantee that BIN LADEN, AL QAEDA and their allies would not attempt to overthrow SADDAM HUSSEIN’s regime in IRAQ.

Exhibit Rr – To demonstrate IRAQ’s commitment to BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA, HIJAZI presented BIN LADEN with a pack of blank, official Yemeni passports, supplied to IRAQI INTELLIGENCE from their Yemeni contacts. HIJAZI’s visit to Kandahar was followed by a contingent of IRAQI INTELLIGENCE officials who provided additional training and instruction to BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA operatives in Afghanistan. These Iraqi officials included members of “Unit 999,” a group of elite IRAQI INTELLIGENCE officials who provided advanced sabotage and infiltration training and instruction to AL QAEDA operatives.

Exhibit Ss – At that meeting, upon information and belief, BIN LADEN, AL QAEDA and IRAQ agreed to join efforts in a detailed, coordinated plan for a protracted terrorist war against the United States.

Exhibit Tt – IRAQ also agreed to provide BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA with the assistance of an expert in chemical weapons; and BIN LADEN agreed to hunt down Iraqi opposition leaders who cooperated with the United States against HUSSEIN. In furtherance of this agreement, BIN LADEN agreed to have a group of AL QAEDA’s “Afghan” Arabs enter IRAQ to fight Kurdish dissidents.

Exhibit Uu – IRAQ maintains an advanced chemical and biological weapons program and is one of only three countries in the world producing a highly developed weaponized anthrax. Some time during or after 1998, IRAQ agreed to help BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA develop a laboratory in Afghanistan designed to produce anthrax.

Exhibit Vv – In addition to the al-Nasiriyah and Salman Pak training camps, by January 1999, BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA operatives were being trained by IRAQI INTELLIGENCE and military officers at other training camps on the outskirts of Baghdad.

Exhibit Ww – In January 1999, IRAQ began reorganizing and mobilizing IRAQI INTELLIGENCE front operations throughout Europe in support of BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA. HAQI ISMAIL, believed to be a member of the IRAQ’S MUKHABARAT Secret Service, left IRAQ to train in an Afghanistan AL QAEDA camp. ISMAIL was believed to be a liason between IRAQ, the TALIBAN and AL QAEDA and was rewarded with a position in the TALIBAN Foreign Ministry.

Exhibit Xx – On December 14, 1999, Ahmed Ressam, an AL QAEDA operative, was arrested while driving a truck from Canada into the United States at Port Angeles, Washington. The truck was loaded with bomb making materials and detonators. Ressam later confessed to, and was convicted of conducting an AL QAEDA plan to detonate a large bomb at Los Angeles International Airport on New Year’s Day 2000. AL QAEDA terrorists ABU JAFFER AL-JAZIRI, BIN LADEN’s longtime IRAQI assistant, and MAHFUZ OUL AL-WALID, a/k/a Khaled Al-Shanguiti, a/k/a Abu Hafs, a/k/a “the Mauritanian,” were both identified as orchestrating the so called “Millennium Plot.” Both are believed to have been killed in Afghanistan in January 2002 during fighting with United States Armed Forces.

In April 2000, UDAY HUSSEIN, as a birthday gift to his father, SADDAM HUSSEIN, assembled a squad of 1,200 trained men called AL QARE. Thirty of them were dispatched with UAE passports to points around the world to standby for orders to commit acts of sabotage, urban warfare and hijacking.

Exhibit Yy – In the spring of 2000, IRAQI INTELLIGENCE began planning to attack United States warships in the Persian Gulf in an effort to prompt a United States withdrawal. IRAQ sought suicide bombers who would employ small boats packed with explosives to ram United States’ warships.

Exhibit Zz – On October 12, 2000, IRAQI INTELLIGENCE and members of AL QAEDA including BIN LADEN, JAMAL AL-BADAWI, KHALID AL-MIDHAR, MOHAMMED OMAR AL-HARAZI, WALID AL-SOUROURI, FATHA ADBUL RAHMAN, YASSER AL-AZZANI, JAMAL BA KHORSH, AHMAD AL-SHINNI, RAED HIJAZI, JAMIL QASIM SAEED MOHAMMED, as well as the two suicide boat bombers Abd Al-Mushin Al-Taifi (deceased) (and a suspect in the August 1998 Embassy bombings) and Hassan Said Awadh Khemeri (deceased) carried out their plan to bomb the U.S.S. Cole by ramming a small boat loaded with explosives into the side of the ship as it was anchored in the harbor at Aden, Yemen, resulting in the deaths of 17 American sailors and injuring an additional 39.

Exhibit aa – On October 14, 2000, just two days after the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, two Saudis hijacked a Boeing 777 from Saudi Arabia and had it flown to Baghdad, IRAQ. The hijackers were given “asylum” in IRAQ. They were extensively interviewed in the Iraqi press and criticized the Saudi government.

Exhibit bb – Upon information and belief, this hijacking was a message between BIN LADEN and IRAQ intended to demonstrate that AL QAEDA terrorists could seize control of large commercial aircraft that could be used as a weapon in the hands of suicide terrorists, foreshadowing a coordinated attack that was less than a year away and planning was well underway in 2000.

Exhibit cc – On January 22, 2001, the Arab language newspaper Al Watan Al Arabi, reported that SADDAM HUSSEIN and his sons had called for an Arab alliance to “launch a global terrorist war against the United States and its allies.” The newspaper characterized HUSSEIN’s statement as calling for an uncompromising campaign and “scorched earth policy.”

Exhibit dd – In May 2001, AL QAEDA operatives in Kurdistan assassinated Franso Hariri, a member of the Kurdish Democratic Party, as part of a deal with SADDAM HUSSEIN. The killing of Hariri created instability in the region by damaging relations between the co-leaders of Kurdistan. This benefitted the HUSSEIN regime in IRAQ.

Exhibit ee – In May 2001, Iraqi physician and kidney specialist Dr. Mohammed Khayal was dispatched from Baghdad to Afghanistan for three days to treat BIN LADEN’s kidney problem, further demonstrating the important relationship between IRAQ and BIN LADEN less than four months before the single largest terrorist attack in history.

Exhibit ff – During the May 2001 trial of some of the AL QAEDA defendants who bombed the U.S. Embassies in Africa, the defendents expressed sympathy, solidarity and support for IRAQ and condemnation for the United States and was their motivation for the bombings.

Exhibit gg – IRAQ knew in advance that AL QAEDA was planning to attack U.S. landmarks and civilians in September 2001 in Washington and New York and supported the planned attacks.

Exhibit hh – Upon information and belief, Iraqi news columnist Naeem Abd Mulhalhal has been connected with IRAQI intelligence since the early 1980s. As such, he comments on matters of IRAQI political interest for the Al Nasiriyah newspaper, a weekly paper published in the provincial capital city of Al Nasiriyah. On September 1, 2001 he was honored for his “documentation of important events and heroic deeds that proud Iraqis have accomplished" and praised by SADDAM HUSSEIN. In addition, Al Nasiriyah also contains a military base that is believed to contain a chemical weapons storage facility. IRAQ had previously denied access to this base to UN weapons inspectors. It was visited by ZAWAHIRI as early as 1998 and AL QAEDA terrorists trained there for several years.

Exhibit ii – On July 21, approximately six weeks before the September 11th attacks, IRAQI columnist Mulhalhal reported that BIN LADEN was making plans to “demolish the Pentagon after he destroys the White House.”

Exhibit jj – Mulhalhal’s July 21 article further informed that BIN LADEN would strike America “on the arm that is already hurting.” Upon information and belief, this references a second IRAQI sponsored attack on the World Trade Center. This interpretation is further bolstered by another reference to New York as “[BIN LADEN] will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra everytime he hears his songs.” (e.g., “New York, New York”) identifying New York, New York as a target.,/font>

Exhibit kk – Mulhalhal further indicated, “The wings of a dove and the bullet are all but one and the same in the heart of a believer.” (Emphasis supplied) This appears to be a reference to the use of commercial aircraft as a weapon. The information was reported in an IRAQI newspaper who’s editor-in-chief serves as secretary to UDAY HUSSEIN’S Iraqi Syndicate of Journalists. The article expressed IRAQI admiration and support for BIN LADEN’s plans and its appearance in the newspaper would clearly have to be endorsed by SADDAM HUSSEIN himself.
All IRAQI news media is strictly controlled and censored by the government of SADDAM HUSSEIN and is under the direct oversight of UDAY HUSSEIN. Various members of IRAQI intelligence work at and control the content of each and every newspaper published inside IRAQ.

Exhibit ll – The information contained in Mulhalhal’s published statements were known prior to the events of September 11th, and that Mulhalhal has ties to IRAQI intelligence, demonstrates foreknowledge of the planned attacks by BIN LADEN and indicates support by IRAQI co-conspirators.

Exhibit mm – IRAQ’s July 21 public statements also exemplify the BIN LADEN pattern of publicly threatening violent strikes against the United States prior to and after committing them. For example, weeks before the August 1998 AL QAEDA attacks on the U.S. embassies in Africa, BIN LADEN threatened U.S. civilians and shortly thereafter, bombed the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania within minutes of each other, killing 223 civilians.

Exhibit mm – According to U.S. and foreign intelligence officials, in the spring of 2000, IRAQI INTELLIGENCE agents met with September 11th pilot hijackers ZAID SAMIR JARRAH and MARWAN AL-SHEHHI in Dubai, UAE in order to advance the hijacking of U.S. aircraft to commit terrorist acts. Not long after the meeting, ALSHEHHI entered the United States on May 29 and JARRAH entered on June 27, to begin preparations for attacks.
Exhibit nn – According to Czech intelligence sources, on June 2, 2000, MOHAMMAD ATTA a pilot and the operational leader of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks traveled to Prague to meet other co-conspirators. The following day, ATTA arrived at Newark International Airport in the United States.

Exhibit oo – According to the FBI, from July 2000 through March 2001, ATTA, SHEHHI, HANJOUR, JARRAH and HAMZI traveled to the U.S. where they resided and took pilot courses to learn to fly the Boeing 747, 757, 767 and Airbus A320 in furtherance of the AL QAEDA IRAQI conspiracy to hijack U.S. aircraft to commit terrorist acts.

Exhibit pp – Upon information and belief, sometime between April 8-11, 2001, ATTA left Florida where he was a flight student, to again meet in Prague with IRAQI INTELLIGENCE agent AL-ANI. ATTA returned to Florida and within two weeks opened a Sun County Bank account with $100,000 sent through a money changer in the UAE. Later in 2001, AL-ANI was expelled from the Czech Republic for espionage activities. Other intelligence reports indicate that AL-ANI met with another September 11th hijacker, KHALID AL MIDHAR as well.

Exhibit qq – Italian security sources reported that IRAQ made use of its embassy in Rome to foster and cultivate IRAQ’s partnership with BIN LADEN and AL QAEDA. HABIB FARIS ABDULLAH AL-MAMOURI, a general in the IRAQI SECRET SERVICE, and a member of IRAQ’s M-8 Special Operations branch, who was responsible for developing links with Islamist militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan, was stationed in Rome as an “instructor” for children of Iraqi diplomats. ALMAMOURI met with September 11th pilot hijacker MOHAMMED ATTA in Rome, Hamburg and Prague. AL-MAMOURI has not been seen in Rome since July 2001, shortly after he last met with ATTA.

Exhibit rr – On July 7, 2001 two members of the IRAQ MUKHABARAT, ABU AGAB and ABU WA’EL traveled together from Germany to Afghanistan and eventually to Kurdistan. ABU WA’EL trained at AL QAEDA terror camps and became the authority for fundamentalist groups operating in Kurdistan, intent on crushing opposition to SADDAM HUSSEIN.

Exhibit ss – SADDAM HUSSEIN is the only national leader in the world who publicly praised the attacks and said that the United States of America deserved them. IRAQ has offered sanctuary to BIN LADEN and TALIBAN leaders. Abu Zeinab al- Quarairy, an Iraqi defector who was an officer in the MUKHABARAT and was familiar with its operations, reported that when he learned about the World Trade Center attacks on September 11th, he turned to a friend and said, “That’s ours.”

Exhibit tt – Upon information and belief, several hundred AL QAEDA members, including ABU ABDUL RAHMAN fled Afghanistan for Kurdistan in IRAQ to try to take control of towns not under the control of SADDAM HUSSEIN and IRAQ, including Halabja, Tawela and Biyarah. On September 23, 2001, Kurdish forces ousted Ansar al Islam from Halabja, but the Islamic fundamentalist group remained in control of Tawela and Biyarah.

Exhibit uu – Israeli intelligence sources verify that for the past two years, IRAQI INTELLIGENCE officers have been shuttling back and forth between Baghdad and Afghanistan. According to the Israelis, one of these IRAQI INTELLIGENCE officers, SALAH SULEIMAN, was captured in October 2001 by Pakistani officials near the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Exhibit vv – In March 2002, U.S. and allied forces discovered a laboratory near Kandahar, Afghanistan that was designed to produce weapons grade anthrax. Upon information and belief, IRAQI INTELLIGENCE agents were supplying technology, materials and training to develop this facility in coordination with AL QAEDA and the TALIBAN.

Exhibit vv – Instruction documents on an artillery weapon known as the “Super Gun” were found in AL QAEDA camps when they were captured by U.S. forces in the winter of 2001-2002. IRAQ is the only state known to have purchased and assembled the super gun, a weapon so large it must be constructed in segments. It has a range of several hundred miles.

Iraq’s State Sponsorship of Osama bin-Laden and the al-Qaeda Terror Network

1999 Article: Iraq tempts bin Laden to attack West

Al-Qaeda Big Confirms Terror Ties to Iraq

White House Says it Has Evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties

The Iraq Connection: Was Saddam involved in Oklahoma City and the first WTC bombing?

World Trade Center Attack Complaint (Iraq named as plaintiff)

Complaint (PDF) Lawsuit claiming a 9/11 link between Iraq and al Qaeda. Sept. 3, 2002

Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view (Iraq believed to be behind 9/11)

Iraq and al Qaeda: Who’s campaigning to deny the links?

Iraqi Terrorists Detail Ties To Bin Laden

Bin Laden disciples terrorise Kurds

The real bin Laden (Iraq has supported al-Qaida for more than a decade)

Iraq giving chemical weapons to al-Qaida: US thinks Iraq plotting with terrorists

Iraq and al-Qaida part of same picture, says Straw

‘Iraq knew of al-Qaeda attacks’

Bin Laden said to have nukes (Iraq has assisted al-Qaida with the purchase of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons)

Bin Laden uses Iraq to plot new attacks

Exposed: Saddam’s Prohibited Missiles and Support of al-Qaeda Terrorism

Mohamed Atta Was Here…And met with Saddam Hussein’s man in Prague.

Bin Laden met Iraqi agent

Lawsuit Alleges Saddam Trained 9/11 Hijackers

Mike Boettcher: Arrests may link al Qaeda, Iraq

Al Qaeda got gas in Iraq

Son of Saddam Praises bin Laden in Official Iraqi Newspaper

Iraq’s Ambassador To Turkey Recalled To Baghdad [second link between Bin Laden and Iraq discovered]

U.S.: Rumsfeld Says Al-Qaeda Takes Refuge In Iraq

CIA Director: Al Qaeda May Be Turning to Iraq

Rumsfeld Says Iraq Has Helped al-Qaeda

Iraqi Funds, Training Fuel Islamic Terror Group: Two Iraqi Arabs held in a Kurdish prison tell of contacts among Ansar al-Islam, Al Qaeda, and aides to the Iraqi president.

Iraq-Al-Qaeda Bombshell: Mag Documents New Links

German investigators link bin Laden and Iraq with anthrax outbreak

‘Proof’ of Iraq/Bin Laden links

Was bin Laden working with Iraq?

Iraq suspected of sponsoring terrorist attacks

Bush hopeful new report will link Iraq to al-Qaeda

U.S. captures Iraqis in Afghanistan raid

A Saddam-Afghanistan Connection Reported

Saddam trained al Qaeda terrorists, British claim

Iraq, al-Qaida linked by administration: Fleischer hints at more coming on connection

Gephardt: ‘Lots Of’ Intelligence Ties Iraq to Al-Qaeda

UHOLY TRINITY IN CHEMICAL WEAPONS PACT – IRAQ, SUDAN & OSAMA BIN LADEN

Links Between 9-11 Terrorist Leader Mohammed Atta, Anthrax, bin Laden and Iraq Appear Likely

The Saddam Hussein / Osama Bin Laden Connection

Iraq trains Bin Laden’s Men in Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Al Qaeda find Iraqi escape

’America Should Act in Self Defense Against Iraq For 9/11, OKC, 1993 WTC Attacks

Rumsfeld: Iraq Sheltered Top Bin Laden Aides

Exposed: Saddam’s Prohibited Missiles and Support of al-Qaeda Terrorism

State Department: Key al Qaida Man in Baghdad

Bin Laden is back, now as defender of Iraq

Al Qaeda’s Man in Iraq?

Al-Qaida cohorts still active in Iraq

Debate over Iraq-bin Laden links reignited

Did Saddam, Bin Laden Work Together to Get Weapons of Mass Destruction?

U.S. Has ‘Solid Evidence’ of Al Qaeda Operating in Iraq

Iraq-al-Qaida links go back decade: CIA reports show nearly 100 examples of cooperation, says reporter

Arafat-Saddam-Bin Laden Links Surface

Bin Laden-Saddam nuclear pact?

Bin Laden imitates Saddam

‘PHARAOH’ CLUE LINKS SADDAM AND OSAMA

New Evidence Of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties?

U.S. tracked top al Qaeda planner’s visit to Baghdad

Rice: Iraq Providing Shelter, Chemical Weapons Help to Al Qaeda

Blair claims Iraq is linked to al-Qaida

Al-Qaeda terrorists seen in Iraq, says US

An Al Qaeda- Iraq link materializing?

Naming names: The Saddam-al Qaida connection

The Iraqi-Oklahoma City Bombing Connection

Exhibit A – Prior to the Gulf War, Iraq had developed a covert network in the United States to acquire materials for weapons of mass destruction. After the Gulf War, Iraq converted that network into organized terrorist cells. Those covert Iraqi procurement and terrorist activities directly involved Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Exhibit B – Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti, a half brother of Saddam Hussein, attended a meeting in London in the fall of 1987 during which a fuel additive company in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was targeted for acquisition. Sabawi, at that time, played a key role in Iraq’s overseas procurement program. The London meeting also included Dr. Ihsan Barbouti, an Iraqi. Barbouti was later identified in official German government reports and by the United States as being a key procurement agent for both Libya and Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs. The Oklahoma City company that was targeted, TK-7 Fuel Additives, was desired by Iraq because Iraq believed that the fuel additive would extend the range of its scud missiles and because the U.S. company would provide an unwitting front for the acquisition of chemicals and materials useful in chemical weapons development and in the preparation of explosives.

Exhibit C – Pursuant to the wishes of Iraq, Ihsan Barbouti approached the owner of the Oklahoma City fuel additives company about becoming an investor. The Oklahoma City owner was later asked by Barbouti to secure a shopping list of chemicals for purported shipment overseas. Barbouti’s list specifically included nitromethane and ammonium nitrate – the same two ingredients later mixed to make the Murrah Building truck bomb in April 1995. The list was ultimately entered into evidence, as Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 5, during a 1991 federal court trial against Barboutis (CIV-89-1264) in Oklahoma City. See Exhibit 1, attached hereto, which is incorporated herein by reference. During that same trial a chemical weapons consultant for the U.S. Army testified that Barbouti’s shopping list included precursors for nerve agents, mustard agents and also “types of compounds for producing various types of explosives.” The expert worried about terrorist applications of the materials that Barbouti sought.

Exhibit D – On April 20, 1990, a Criminal Investigation Agent for the U.S. Customs Service authored a “Report of Investigation” including information from a confidential informant from Europe who revealed that Barbouti was a “conduit for. . .funds to terrorist organizations.” The Customs informant also noted that there was an individual working with Barbouti in his technology and weapons procurement efforts for Libya and Iraq. Said individual was identified in a 1991 Florida federal court case, i.e., testimony given two years before the first attack on the World Trade Center, as being “Ramzi Youssef.” Youssef was an Iraqi government agent.

Exhibit E – In the time period before the Gulf War other witnesses met Ramzi Youssef, who was described as an “explosives expert” employed by the Iraqi National Oil Company, at Dr. Barbouti’s office in London. Indeed, Youssef was part of a team of Barbouti’s agents or employees who were to be “on the ground” in Kuwait, awaiting the Iraqi invasion in August 1990. They were tasked with assisting and cooperating with the Iraqi invasion force, especially in regard to oil field matters. Dr. Barbouti and Youssef had prior knowledge of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Later, during their occupation of Kuwait in 1990, Iraq created a false identify for Youssef using the identity of a dead Pakistani named Abdel Basit. This was done in order to hide Iraq’s involvement in an impending program of international terrorist attacks.

Exhibit F – During this same time frame (1989-1990) Barbouti, on behalf of Iraq, also attempted to acquire controlling interest in a cherry flavors plant in Boca Raton, Florida. The cherry flavors plant, as redesigned by Barbouti, would also produce sodium cyanide as a waste by-product of the fruit pit processing. U.S. authorities later discovered that after the Boca Raton plant began operations in September 1989, a number of barrels of sodium cyanide were diverted from the plant. Seven barrels of the sodium cyanide – used to make hydrogen cyanide gas – were trucked from Florida to Houston, where Barbouti had a corporate headquarters for his U.S. operations. The seven barrels were then taken to Baltimore where they were shipped as the “personal effects” of a diplomat at the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, D.C. to the port of Aqaba, Jordan. From there, the cyanide was taken overland to Iraq. Other barrels of the sodium cyanide from the Boca Raton plant simply disappeared.

Exhibit G – Three years later Ramzi Youssef attempted to use sodium cyanide to create cyanide gas to release into the ventilation system of the World Trade Center as part of the 1993 New York terrorist bombing. The attempted chemical attack was emphasized by Federal Judge Kevin Duffy at the May 1994 sentencing hearing for four men also convicted of the attack (Ramzi Youssef, the mastermind and bomb maker, was not yet in custody). Judge Duffy noted that the conspiracy’s aim was “to engulf the victims trapped in the North Trade Tower in a cloud of cyanide gas.” The bomb’s explosion luckily incinerated the gas. The source of the sodium cyanide – mixed by Youssef with sulfuric acid to produce hydrogen cyanide – used in the 1993 World Trade Center attack is unknown.

Exhibit H – In addition to the activities of Ihsan Barbouti and his protégée, Ramzi Youssef, Iraq has promised and prepared for a continued war of terrorism against the United States since the Persian Gulf War in 1990.

Exhibit I – According to a U.S. Department of State dispatch dated November 5, 1990, Saddam Hussein had called, on September 13, 1990, for a Jihad or Holy War against those nations who supported the U.N. condemnation of Iraq.

Exhibit J – According to the same U.S. Department of State dispatch, Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz simultaneously warned that Baghdad was under no moral obligation to refrain from terrorism if threatened by United States, British or French governments.

Exhibit K – After the Gulf War cease fire, a promise was made by Saddam Hussein (personally) on November 3, 1992 in Ramadi, Iraq that “the mother of battles . . . has continued, and will continue.”

Exhibit L – There was an attempted terrorist plot by Iraqi agents to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush with a car bomb during his planned visit to Kuwait in April 1993, which was foiled by Kuwaiti intelligence.

Exhibit M – In June 1996, the UNSCOM 150 Team led by Inspector Scott Ritter discovered a terrorist training school in the southwest quadrant of Baghdad in the Abu Garie area run by Directorate M-21 of the Mukhabarat (Iraqi intelligence). In Ritter’s own words, “Document after document outlined an international program of terror.”

Exhibit N – According to UNSCOM reports, as well as Iraqi defector, Khidhir Hamza, Iraq had a chemical weapons testing facility at Samara and a biological agent testing facility at the Salman Pak in Iraq. Both facilities conducted lethal testing on human subjects.

Exhibit O – According to reports of the U.N. Special Commission and Iraqi defector Sabah Khodada, Iraq also has an elite international terrorist training camp at the Salman Pak located southwest of Baghdad.

Exhibit P – In summary, Iraq has had the “means,” before and after the Gulf War, through individual agents like Ihsan Barbouti, Ramzi Youssef and Abdul Rahman Yasin , an indicted fugitive from the World Trade Center bombing currently hiding in Baghdad, to execute terrorist attacks against Americans in the United States and elsewhere. The Iraqi-inspired terrorist attacks that have occurred have often utilized those same materials (ammonium nitrate, nitromethane and cyanide) that Iraq had been attempting to procure since prior to the Gulf War.

Exhibit Q – After masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Iraqi agent Ramzi Youssef was on the run. Youssef eventually returned to the Philippines, where he first visited in the summer of 1991. After setting up a base of operations in Manila during August 1994, Ramzi Youssef, Wali Khan Amin Shah and Abdul Hakim Murad (a foreign pilot licensed in the United States since 1992) began conceiving plans for conducting elaborate terrorist attacks-code named “Project Bojinka.”

Exhibit R – In the Philippines as part of Project Bojinka, Ramzi Youssef, on behalf of Iraq, recruited conspirators to attempt to simultaneously bomb five or more U.S. 747 aircraft over the Pacific, using delayed timer tactics with many similarities to Barbouti’s 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103. Youssef also conceived of plans to highjack planes bound for the United States in order to dive them, in suicide attacks, into U.S. targets like CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, a tactic later adopted by Osama bin Laden. Youssef flew frequently from Manila to Cebu City in the Philippines in order to recruit potential terrorists at Southwest College in Cebu City. Plaintiffs assert that at some point in time Ramzi Youssef recruited a willing convert in the person of Terry Nichols who witnesses say went to the Philippines seeking technical help in learning to build a bomb. Meetings between Terry Nichols and Ramzi Youssef were witnessed by a Filipino government informant.

Exhibit S – Terry Nichols took a number of trips to Cebu City in the Philippines between 1990 when he married a Filipino and 1994. Sometimes Nichols went with his Filipino wife and sometimes he went alone. On November 22, 1994 Nichols made his last trip to the Philippines. However, prior to that trip, for the first and only time, Nichols worried that he might not return. Indeed, Terry Nichols left a letter with his ex-wife for Timothy McVeigh to be delivered to McVeigh in case of Nichols’ death in the Philippines. The letter contained instructions addressing several things including the ammonium nitrate that Nichols had accumulated in a storage locker in Kansas. Said letter was introduced into evidence in McVeigh’s criminal case. After putting his affairs in order, Nichols flew to Cebu City, the second largest city in the Philippines, arriving on November 23, 1994. Nichols’ Filipino wife was already attending classes there at Southwest College.

Exhibit T – Soon after Terry Nichols arrived in Cebu City, Ramzi Youssef also bought a one-way ticket to Cebu City, on December 9th, for travel aboard a December 11 flight from Manila on Philippine Airlines flight 434. Once on board, on December 11th, Youssef planted a bomb rigged with a Casio timer under his seat. The bomb was set to explode after Youssef disembarked in Cebu City. Two hours after Youssef got off the Boeing 747 in Cebu City his bomb exploded as the plane was on its way to Tokyo. The bomb killed one person and severely injured several others while blowing a hole in the floor of the plane and severing the aileron cables that controlled the plane’s flaps. The 747 successfully made an emergency landing in Okinawa. Intelligence sources in the Philippines believe that Youssef hid out for the next several weeks in a boarding house near Southwest College in Cebu City. Marife Nichols later moved into that same boarding house after Terry Nichols returned to the United States.

Exhibit U – By January 6, 1995, Youssef was back in his apartment in Manila. At about 10:40 p.m. on the evening of January 6, Youssef and Abdul Hakim Murad were building one of the bombs to be used in the impending attacks on American 747 aircraft, when a small fire broke out in their apartment. The fire caused them to flee the apartment due to poisonous smoke. Firefighters arrived and extinguished the blaze but the bomb making equipment was obvious. Abdul Hakim Murad was arrested that same night when he returned to attempt to retrieve Ramzi Youssef’s laptop computer. The computer contained the Project Bojinka plans to simultaneously blow up five or more American 747 aircraft over the Pacific on the same day. The coordinated bombing was planned for January 21, 1995. Youssef’s computer also revealed that at least five people (identified by code names only) would participate with him in executing the attack. The identities of all of the prospective “Bojinka” bombing participants has never been definitively established but the evidence suggests that Terry Nichols planned to be one of them.

Exhibit V – However, once Murad was arrested on January 6, 1995 and the bombing plot was discovered, both Ramzi Youssef and Terry Nichols quickly left the Philippines. Youssef flew to Hong Kong on January 7th and Nichols left Cebu City on January 16, 1995, seven days earlier than originally planned, for the United States. During the next several months, from January 31 until March 14, 1995, Nichols made numerous phone calls back to the Philippines, including 13 calls to “untraceable” Philippine numbers after his wife had already returned to the United States. In some of these instances Nichols called the boarding house near Southwest College. In some instances he called pay phones in the Philippines. He sometimes called from outdoor phone booths, in Kansas, during the dead of winter. Most tellingly, Nichols made repeated calls to the Philippines using a prepaid long distance debit card account under a fictitious name, Daryl Bridges, which federal prosecutors say was set up for the Murrah Building bombing conspiracy.

Exhibit W – Three months later, when the Murrah Building was bombed, Abdul Hakim Murad, in a prison cell in New York City awaiting trial for his part in the plot to bomb five American 747 aircraft, admitted verbally on April 19, 1995 and in writing that Ramzi Youssef’s “liberation army” was responsible for the Murrah Building bombing! Murad’s conspiratorial admission of foreign involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing was revealed by an FBI 302 Report that was referenced in Timothy McVeigh’s March 1997 “Petition for Writ of Mandamus,” Case No. 97-1109 (10th Cir.). The 302 Report was sealed. Said conspiratorial admission, however, was never reported by the government to the bombing victims.

Exhibit X – Due primarily to Ramzi Youssef’s involvement in planning both attacks, the bombing of the Murrah Building in April 1995 had dramatic similarities to the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. In each instance, the bomb was a massive “fertilizer bomb.” The World Trade Center bomb was primarily composed of urea nitrate, although it did utilize a more sophisticated triggering device, i.e., nitroglycerin, and the Oklahoma City bomb was primarily composed of ammonium nitrate. Both bombs were delivered to their targets in rented Ryder trucks which had been rented in adjoining states. Both attacks were timed in order to inflict substantial casualties and to bring down the targeted buildings.

Exhibit Y – Tellingly, according to the sworn testimony of Michael Fortier, McVeigh and Nichols attempted in October 1994 to blow up a metal milk jug with a small ammonium nitrate device. That attempt merely fizzled. Six months later, and only three months after Nichols returned from the Philippines, the same two individuals (supposedly) were able to devastate the Murrah Building with approximately 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and Nitromethane. Plaintiffs assert that this quantum leap in technical expertise occurred during Nichols’ last trip to the Philippines.

Exhibit Z – Freedom of Information Act records obtained from Interpol’s National Central Bureau on February 24, 2000 revealed that, long after Nichols and McVeigh were in custody for the Murrah Building bombing, Interpol was still trying to apprehend at least two other individuals, one a foreign national, somewhere overseas, who were “implicated in the bomb attack against the Oklahoma City federal building on April 19, 1995.” Also, the last (released) document contained in Interpol’s file regarding the Oklahoma City bombing was a New York Times article about the 1997 trial of Ramzi Youssef for the terrorist plots prepared in the Philippines during 1994 and early 1995.

Exhibit Aa – Timothy McVeigh had additional Iraqi assistance in preparing the Murrah Building attack during the days leading up to April 19, 1995. This included, specifically, the assistance of Hussain Hashem Alhussaini, a former soldier in the Iraqi army during the Gulf War who had been allowed entry into the United States in 1994 through Boston from an interment camp in Saudi Arabia. Also, see Exhibit 5, attached hereto, which is a copy of an April 19, 1995 government memorandum documenting a report to the Washington Metropolitan Field Office of the FBI, made by a former high-ranking CIA official, and is incorporated herein by reference. Said CIA official (who had previously worked on the Pan Am 103 case) was passing on urgent information from a Saudi Arabian counterterrorism official in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The intelligence information was that “there was a ‘squad’ of people currently in the United States, very possibly Iraqis, who have been tasked with carrying out terrorist attacks against the United States.” One of the three targets specifically mentioned in the report was Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The existence of this memo was never communicated by the U.S. government to Plaintiffs herein, i.e., victims.

Exhibit Bb – Plaintiffs also note that the U.S. News and World Report reported on October 29, 2001 that “a few top Defense officials think Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh was an Iraqi agent.” The Pentagon asserted that “McVeigh had allegedly collected Iraqi telephone numbers” prior to his arrest. The U.S. government never revealed information about McVeigh’s Iraqi phone numbers to Plaintiffs, i.e., the bombing victims, herein.

Exhibit Cc – In March 1998, Timothy McVeigh penned a copyrighted “Essay on Hypocrisy” from federal prison in Florence, Colorado which defended Iraq’s right to “stockpile chemical or biological weapons” because the United States had also done so. In his essay, McVeigh returned again and again to the topic of Iraq: . . . the people of the nation approve of bombing government employees because they are “guilty by association – they are Iraqi government employees. In regard to the bombing in Oklahoma City, however, such logic is condemned. * * * Do people think that government workers in Iraq are any less human than those in Oklahoma City? Do they think that Iraqis don’t have families who will grieve and mourn the loss of their loved ones? I find it ironic to say the least, that one of the aircraft that could be used to drop such a bomb on Iraq is dubbed “The Spirit of Oklahoma.”

Exhibit Dd – In summary, Iraq had the “opportunity” through its agent, Ramzi Youssef, and through other individuals to assist in both the technical planning, and in the execution of the Oklahoma City Murrah Building bombing. Having expended considerable resources in developing covert procurement and terrorist cells in the United States, Iraq did not forego the opportunity to provide training and support to domestic extremists, like Nichols and McVeigh, who were already pre-disposed to terrorism and to “acts of revenge” against the U.S. government.

Exhibit Ee – When it became clear that Iraq was losing the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq repeatedly threatened revenge. Specifically, the Iraqi people will “avenge the pure blood that has been shed no matter how long it takes” as spoken by then First Deputy Prime Minister of Baghdad Domestic Service, Taha Yasin Ramadan on February 15, 1991. In November 1992, Saddam Hussein, himself, announced in Ramadi, Iraq that “the mother of battles . . . has continued and will continue.”

Exhibit Ff – The arrest in Pakistan of Ramzi Youssef on February 7, 1995. Iraq probably feared that its complicity in the first World Trade Center attack would soon be revealed, and that future attacks might be compromised.

Exhibit Gg – March 1995 – a U.S. inspired military effort was begun by the Iraqi government in exile (the Iraqi National Congress) in Northern Iraq involving 15,000 troops. Saddam Hussein eventually defeated it.

Exhibit Hh – The United States announced in March 1995 that it would veto any proposal in the United Nations to lift Iraqi sanctions. Iraq was desperate to get sanctions lifted.

Exhibit Ii – On April 10, 1995 the United Nations inspection team UNSCOM filed its official report (written in part by American, Scott Ritter) which revealed that Iraq still maintained a biological warfare program. This report “raised the prospects that sanctions could never be lifted due to U.N. Security Council Regulation 687.” Iraq was enraged.

Exhibit Jj – In summary, Iraq had sufficient “motive,” and Saddam Hussein had previously demonstrated sufficient propensity, to execute a major terrorist attack against the United States in the spring of 1995, and certainly after the events of April 10, 1995.

WOW!..THX for all the great info LUKE!!!….Happy Thanks Giving!

All this info was washed from the net.
It took me a long time to find it again.
I was lucky to find this website

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

They archive allot of stuff that disappears.