The New York Times (50 Words) Through the Years - It's All Spelled Out So Clearly

John Kerry uses the New York Times as his main source of information for his campaign. So, I thought I'd pull a few articles (from the archives) from the years leading up to the war.

Please remember the article John Kerry is using now was a "plant" by ElBaradei, the UN Nuclear Watchdog for the UN. The UN, a body rife with corruption which was in league with Saddam Hussein against the impending war. President Bush has asked that ElBaradei, an avowed American-hater, not be reinstated in his position at the UN.

Through the headlines you will notice there was no rush to war, as Kerry is so fond of saying. There were months of warnings to Saddam, from around the world, there were weeks of diplomacy when the warnings failed.

There are also articles, especially from about this time, three years ago, showing the connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

Also seen through the articles is the beginning of the Oil-For-Food program's crumbling and its participants having "difficulty" with the decision to go to war.

Please take the time to go through the articles. They are numerous, but only the first fifty works of each article is given. Full reference is provided if you'd care to do further research.

IRAQ SAID TO STUDY BIOLOGICAL ARMS; Reports of Baghdad Research on Weapons That Spread Cholera and Anthrax
By STEPHEN ENGELBERG
Jan 18, 1989. pg. A7, 1 pgs

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- Iraq is developing biological weapons, including arms that can spread typhoid, cholera and anthrax, Government officials said tonight.

Iraqi Chemical Arms: Difficult Target
By MALCOLM W. BROWNE
Sep 5, 1990. pg. A15, 1 pgs

Among the potential targets of American air strikes if war with Iraq should break out are the sites where chemical weapons are manufactured or stored. But although chemical plants are vulnerable, experts say United States intelligence may not be good enough to pinpoint the hundreds of secret caches where chemical weapons are already stockpiled.

C.I.A. Fears Iraq Could Deploy Biological Arms by Early 1991
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Sep 29, 1990. pg. 4, 1 pgs

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Iraq has developed biological weapons that will be able to deliver significant quantities of the deadly agents on the battlefield by early next year, according to American intelligence reports.

A Search and Destroy Priority: Unconventional Iraqi Munitions
By ERIC SCHMITT
Jan 30, 1991. pg. A9, 1 pgs

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 29 -- The United States-led coalition has destroyed Iraq's ability to produce nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, but Baghdad still has vast stocks of deadly nerve gas and germ agents, American military officials say.

IRAQI REPORT SAYS CHEMICAL ARSENAL SURVIVED THE WAR; ACCOUNTING TO THE U.N. But U.S. Accuses Baghdad of Omitting Items From List, Like Nuclear Material Iraq Says Chemical Arsenal Survived the War
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Apr 20, 1991. pg. 1, 2 pgs

UNITED NATIONS, April 19 -- Iraq has informed the United Nations that a substantial arsenal of chemical and ballistic weapons survived the Persian Gulf war, but it denies having nuclear arms, nuclear-weapons-grade materials or biological weapons, according to documents made public today.

BAGHDAD REVEALS IT HAD PLUTONIUM OF WEAPONS GRADE; SAFEGUARDS IN QUESTION
By JERRY GRAY, Special to The New York Times
Aug 6, 1991. pg. A1, 2 pgs

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 5 -- Iraq has disclosed that its scientists were secretly able to extract a small amount of plutonium, suitable for making an atomic bomb, from spent fuel at a nuclear installation whose operations came under international safeguards, United Nations officials said today.

U.N. Weapons Inspectors Renew Hunt in Iraq
By PAUL LEWIS
Nov 17, 1991. pg. 12, 1 pgs

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 16 -- A team of United Nations inspectors, acting on information obtained from intelligence agencies and on previous visits, will start hunting for a secret Iraqi biological weapons plant next week.

CLINTON BACKS STEP; About 40 Rockets Fired From Navy Ships -- Hotel Is Damaged Raid on Iraq: Speaking to Baghdad With Tomahawks U.S. Launches Attack on an Industrial Site Close to Baghdad
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Jan 18, 1993. pg. A1, 2 pgs

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- Navy ships in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea launched about 40 cruise missiles at what officials say was an Iraqi military complex in a Baghdad suburb today, as the United States brought battle to the Iraqi capital for the first time since the end of the Persian Gulf war.

Armed and Dangerous; The authors think everybody's running in the most perilous stage of the arms race so far.
By Michael Krepon
Feb 6, 1994. pg. BR7, 1 pgs

THE proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons has never been more troubling, even though the tools to deal with the problem have never been better. To understand this paradoxical, changeable situation or to predict the future of these weapons takes the combined sensibilities of a Taoist master and a New England meteorologist.

Iraq's Threat: Biological Warfare; 'Dr. Germs' deceives the U.N.
WILLIAM SAFIRE
Feb 16, 1995. pg. A27, 1 pgs

With Iraq's nuclear and poisongas production capability limited by the scrutiny of U.N. inspectors, Saddam Hussein is developing the means to produce a terror weapon much harder to find: the deadly micro-organisms of biological warfare.

AFTER THE ATTACKS: THE OVERVIEW; U.S. Says Iraq Aided Production Of Chemical Weapons in Sudan
This article was reported by Barbara Crossette, Judith Miller, Steven Lee Myers and Tim Weiner, and was written by Mr. Myers.
August 25, 1998, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 1

The United States believes that senior Iraqi scientists were helping to produce elements of the nerve agent VX at the factory in the Sudan that American cruise missiles destroyed last week, Administration and intelligence officials said ... The evidence cited today as justification for the attack consisted of a soil...

AFTER THE ATTACKS: THE OVERVIEW; PRESIDENT SWEARS TO USE 'ALL TOOLS' AGAINST TERRORISM
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
August 23, 1998, Late Edition - Final , Section 1 , Page 1 , Column 6

President Clinton vowed today that the United States would use ''all the tools at our disposal'' to fight the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden, as the Administration outlined efforts to squeeze him financially after Thursday's American cruise-missile strikes against sites linked to him in Afghanistan and the ... ''Our...

Abroad at Home; Weighing the Price
By ANTHONY LEWIS (NYT) Op-Ed 733 words
September 1, 1998, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 25 , Column 5

With its special power and responsibility in the world, the United States has to be free to act unilaterally in urgent circumstances. We cannot wait for international approval before responding to terrorism. ... President Reagan was right to attack Colonel Qaddafi's headquarters after an apparent act of Libyan terrorism. And...

A Much-Shunned Terrorist Is Said to Find Haven in Iraq
By JAMES RISEN (NYT) 1699 words
January 27, 1999, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 1

Abu Nidal, one of the world's most infamous terrorists, moved to Baghdad late last year and obtained the protection of President Saddam Hussein, according to intelligence reports received by United States and Middle Eastern government officials. The reports have raised questions about whether Iraq is pushing to establish a terrorism...

Allies Against Terror
(NYT) Editorial 419 words
September 13, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 26 , Column 1

If the United States is to combat terrorism effectively in the weeks ahead it will have to act in concert with other nations, including a number of Islamic countries. President Bush has recognized the need for international cooperation in his public statements and conversations with foreign leaders since the terror...

A NATION CHALLENGED: THE DIPLOMACY; World Leaders List Conditions On Cooperation
By PATRICK E. TYLER AND JANE PERLEZ (NYT) 1342 words
September 19, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 2

After a week of unconditional support from abroad, the Bush administration confronted its first significant difficulties today in building a broad international coalition to support using military power and other means against a still-faceless terror network rooted in Afghanistan and ... A procession of world leaders was either on the...

A NATION CHALLENGED: NEWS ANALYSIS; A Clear Message: 'I Will Not Relent'
By R. W. APPLE JR. (NYT) News Analysis 1348 words
September 21, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 2

Siding with those of his advisers who favor the broadest possible campaign against terrorism, President Bush told Congress, the nation and the world last night that the forthcoming American effort would not cease ''until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and ... The terrorist network, he...

Abroad at Home; 'To Thine Own Self Be True'
By ANTHONY LEWIS (NYT) Op-Ed 750 words
September 22, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 25 , Column 1

''I ask you to uphold the values of America,'' President Bush said to Congress and the nation. That will be a fair test of his policy for dealing with terrorism as the policy unfolds: Does it uphold the values of ... Our government's actions both external and internal should be...

A NATION CHALLENGED: THE ADVISERS; From Many Voices, One Battle Strategy
THIS ARTICLE WAS REPORTED AND WRITTEN BY JANE PERLEZ, DAVID E. SANGER AND THOM SHANKER. (NYT) 1815 words
September 23, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section 1A , Page 1 , Column 2

In his speech on Thursday night, President Bush boldly defined the enemy in his war against terrorism: ''From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile ... While seemingly straightforward, the wording and new strategy that...

A NATION CHALLENGED: DIPLOMACY; U.S. Prepares to Brief NATO on Strategy to Fight bin Laden
By ELAINE SCIOLINO (NYT) 584 words
September 25, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section B , Page 2 , Column 1

As President Bush pressed his case against terrorism with foreign governments, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz prepared to brief NATO defense ministers in Brussels on the overall American strategy to root out the bin Laden terrorist network. ... As part of the effort to shore up international support for...

A NATION CHALLENGED: THE ALLIANCE; So Far, Europe Breathes Easier Over Free Hand Given the U.S.
By STEVEN ERLANGER (NYT) 891 words
September 29, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section B , Page 1 , Column 5

European anxiety that NATO had handed the United States a blank check to retaliate against terrorism worldwide has lessened for now, with Washington winning praise for its deliberate response to the attacks on New York and the Pentagon. ... Officials from Germany, France and Britain -- the European heart of...

A NATION CHALLENGED: UNITED NATIONS; U.S. Ambassador Warns Iraq Against Stirring Up Trouble
By SERGE SCHMEMANN (NYT) 483 words
October 10, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section B , Page 5 , Column 5

The United States ambassador to the United Nations relayed a warning to Iraq this week not to ''take advantage'' of the attacks on New York and Washington by stirring up trouble, American officials said ... The envoy, John Negroponte, met the Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammed Aldouri, on...

A NATION CHALLENGED: THE WHITE HOUSE; BUSH OFFERS TALIBAN '2ND CHANCE' TO YIELD; SAYS HE'D WELCOME U.N. IN NATION-BUILDING; F.B.I. ISSUES ALERT ON SIGNS OF NEW TERROR
By PATRICK E. TYLER AND ELISABETH BUMILLER (NYT) 1843 words
October 12, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 6

President Bush said today that United States forces would attack Afghanistan for ''as long as it takes'' to destroy the Qaeda terrorist network of Osama bin Laden, but he offered to reconsider the military assault on Afghanistan if that country's ruling Taliban would surrender Mr. bin ... At a news...

A NATION CHALLENGED: THE INVESTIGATION; Czechs Confirm Iraqi Agent Met With Terror Ringleader
By PATRICK E. TYLER WITH JOHN TAGLIABUE (NYT) 2017 words
October 27, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 5

The Czech interior minister said today that an Iraqi intelligence officer met with Mohammed Atta, one of the ringleaders of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, just five months before the synchronized hijackings and mass killings were carried ... The official confirmation of the meeting, the details...

A NATION CHALLENGED: THE SCHOOL; Defectors Cite Iraqi Training For Terrorism
By CHRIS HEDGES (NYT) 1427 words
November 8, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 6

Two defectors from Iraqi intelligence said yesterday that they had worked for several years at a secret Iraqi government camp that had trained Islamic terrorists in rotations of five or six months since 1995. ... They said the training in the camp, south of Baghdad, was aimed at carrying out...

A NATION CHALLENGED: CHEMICAL WEAPONS; Al Qaeda Sites Point to Tests Of Chemicals
By JAMES RISEN AND JUDITH MILLER (NYT) 1450 words
November 11, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section 1B , Page 1 , Column 5

The United States has identified sites in Afghanistan that are suspected of involvement in Osama bin Laden's efforts to acquire and produce chemical and biological weapons, but none have been bombed since the military campaign began, according to American military and intelligence ... The American bombing has spared the sites...

Essay; Prague Connection
By WILLIAM SAFIRE (NYT) Op-Ed 785 words
November 12, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 19 , Column 5

The undisputed fact connecting Iraq's Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11 attacks is this: Mohamed Atta, who died at the controls of an airliner-missile, flew from Florida to Prague to meet on April 8 of this year with Ahmed al-Ani, the Iraqi consul. ... Al-Ani was known to the B.I.S.,...

A NATION CHALLENGED: ATOMIC ENERGY; Lax Nuclear Security in Russia Is Cited as Way for bin Laden to Get Arms
By STEVEN ERLANGER (NYT) 1556 words
November 12, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section B , Page 1 , Column 1

In the last year, there have been dozens of violations of nuclear security rules in Russia and at least one loss of fissile material; Taliban emissaries have tried to recruit Russian scientists, and terrorists have tried to stake out a Russian nuclear storage site at least twice, say senior officials...

A NATION CHALLENGED: A WARNING; Readmit Inspectors, President Tells Iraq; 'Or Else' Is Unstated
By ELISABETH BUMILLER (NYT) 1144 words
November 27, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 6

President Bush warned Saddam Hussein today that if he did not admit United Nations inspectors to determine if Iraq is developing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, he would face consequences. ... Mr. Bush declined for now to say what those might be. ''He'll find out,'' Mr. Bush ...

A NATION CHALLENGED: DIPLOMACY; U.S. TO PRESS IRAQ TO LET U.N. SEARCH FOR BANNED ARMS
By PATRICK E. TYLER AND DAVID E. SANGER (NYT) 983 words
December 1, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 4

A top State Department official said today that the United States was on ''a roll'' in its campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan and that President Bush intended to use the momentum to force Iraq to open its borders to United Nations inspectors looking for weapons of mass ... At...

A NATION CHALLENGED: IRAQ; U.S. AGAIN PLACING FOCUS ON HUSSEIN
By PATRICK E. TYLER (NYT) 1181 words
December 18, 2001, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 3

The option of taking the war against terrorism to Iraq and Saddam Hussein has gained significant ground in recent weeks both inside the administration and among some important allies in the Muslim world, according to administration officials and diplomats from the ... President Bush's top national security advisers have made...

Arab States Urge Iraq to Allow Arms Inspectors Back in Country
( Reuters ) 303 words
January 1, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 4 , Column 5

Gulf Arab states urged Iraq today to allow United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country or risk more tension in the Middle ... The leaders of the states, members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, also called on Iraq at their year-end summit meeting here today to show good will...

A NATION CHALLENGED: THE LESSONS; If Saddam Hussein Is Next, Experts Say, Do It Fast
By SERGE SCHMEMANN (NYT) News Analysis 1190 words
January 6, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section 1 , Page 14 , Column 5

If Saddam Hussein is to be taken out, experts agree, much of the reaction in the Arab world and elsewhere could be mitigated if the operation were ... That, at least, is the apparent lesson of Afghanistan, where the rapidity with which the Taliban collapsed and the swift installation of...

Terrorism's Other Battlefields
(NYT) Editorial 549 words
January 9, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 22 , Column 1

From the first days of America's new war against international terrorism, President Bush has made clear that the use of United States military force would not necessarily end with the defeat of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan or the killing or capture of Osama bin Laden. He rightly warned governments...

Why Europe Is Wary of War in Iraq
By MICHAEL NAUMANN (NYT) Op-Ed 941 words
February 18, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 15 , Column 1

In June 1981, Israel's prime minister, Menachem Begin, ordered a posse of F-16 jets to take out Saddam Hussein's two nuclear reactors. With vast petroleum reserves, Iraq had no imaginable need for nuclear energy -- except to make bombs. And Mr. Hussein had openly declared his intention to attack ......

Protecting Saddam
By WILLIAM SAFIRE (NYT) Op-Ed 737 words
March 18, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 25 , Column 5

Soviet propagandists used to touch up photographs to remove the face of a Kremlin official who had fallen from favor, making him a ''nonperson.'' ... The same disinformation technique is now being used to wipe out the fact of a meeting in Prague in April, 2001 -- five months before...

Saddam's Offensive
By WILLIAM SAFIRE (NYT) Op-Ed 760 words
April 8, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 19 , Column 5

Sixty Islamic terrorists, trained in Afghanistan by Osama bin Laden, are holed up in the town of Biyara in northern Iraq, guests of Saddam Hussein. Their assignment is to infiltrate the no-flight zone and to kill the Kurdish leaders, who Saddam assumes will be allied with the U.S. in his...

TELEVISION REVIEW; Close Look at Iraq on Poison Gas and bin Laden
By CARYN JAMES
Published: July 11, 2002, Thursday

''Many people were collapsing around us and dying,'' says a Kurdish man who survived a poison gas attack. ''The gas smelled of garlic and rotten apples.'' As he recalls that day, we see videotape shot immediately after the attack. The gas -- a combination including the nerve gas sarin and cyanide -- caused paralysis and death so fast that the stonelike corpses littering the ground look flash-frozen, fists clenched, one child's arm still lifted in the air.

The attack, launched by Saddam Hussein in 1988 in his own country, hit the town of Halabja and was meant to punish the Kurds for their resistance to his control. That story is only one part of tonight's extraordinary documentary ''Saddam's Ultimate Solution,'' the timeliest possible beginning to ''Wide Angle,'' a 10-week PBS series on varied international issues. Only last week Iraq once again refused to let United Nations weapons inspectors into the country, and much front-page news has focused on the Bush administration's possible plans to topple Mr. Hussein and on the role the Kurds might play in such a move.

In this hourlong film, its reporter and producer, Gwynne Roberts, travels to Iraqi Kurdistan searching for links between Mr. Hussein and Osama bin Laden. He is accompanied by a doctor studying the long-term effects of poison gas on the towns and villages (more than 200 of them) attacked by Mr. Hussein in the late 1980's. The Hussein-Bin Laden connection is the more explosive subject. The claims are chilling if true, but while the evidence is convincing it remains unproved here. The effects of the poison gas, however, are viscerally, undeniably horrifying. On both counts the narrative and the images in ''Saddam's Ultimate Solution'' are as gripping as any drama.

The documentary includes black-and-white videotape taken immediately after Mr. Hussein's first known chemical attack in April 1987 on a village called Scheich Wassan. Taken by a Kurdish mercenary working with the Iraqis, the tape shows a huge cloud hanging in the air, people helplessly throwing buckets of water on the smoking ground, villagers wailing. Color video from 1991 shows skulls and remnants of clothing being unearthed from a mass grave for victims of that attack. Today the film shows shells from the missiles lying in a school playground, a residue of poison gas still on them.

In Halabja the film captures an old woman's wizened face and body. Mr. Roberts then tells us she is 16 years old; she was 3 when the poison gas hit. A man who was a healthy 9-year-old at the time now has curvature of the spine. There is an increase in babies born with cleft palates, Down syndrome and other disorders. A sign over a large burial ground reads, in imperfect English, ''The Graveyard for Halabja Chemical Martyr.''

While in Kurdistan, Mr. Roberts's investigation of the Hussein-Bin Laden tie focuses on Al Ansar al Islam, a militant Islamic group (the Iraqi counterpart to the Taliban in Afghanistan) with widely reported links to Mr. bin Laden's Queda. Only one source faces the camera: Barham Salih, the prime minister of the Kurdish Regional Government, who survived an assassination attempt. One of the captured suspects claims to be a member of al Ansar and says he was recruited by Al Queda agents in Jordan.

Two other men are filmed with their backs to the camera or lurking in shadows. A man who is now a prisoner of the Kurds claims he was an Iraqi intelligence agent and says that Aymar al Zawahiri, Mr. bin Laden's second in command, met with Mr. Hussein in Iraq in 1992.

Even more alarming claims come from an Iraqi whom Mr. Roberts tracks down in Turkey, his identity disguised by a jittery camera in a hotel room that shows his hands, his feet, never his face. He says he worked in a chemical weapons factory near Baghdad and that he actually saw Mr. bin Laden visit a terrorist training camp in Iraq in 1998, when Al Queda members were about to ''graduate'' from its program. ''Saddam's Ultimate Solution'' carefully couches all this information in phrases like ''if these claims are true,'' but it has a cumulative credibility when added to similar stories from many other sources.

The trappings of the series are less successful. After each film either James Rubin, a former spokesman for former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, or Daljit Dhaliwal, the former anchor of ''World News for Public Television,'' will interview an expert on the documentary's subject. Mr. Rubin's guest on tonight's program is Richard Perle, a former assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration. Mr. Perle offers an argument rather than analysis when he says an American operation in Iraq will be ''quicker and easier than many people think,'' a matter of weeks not months. Mr. Rubin questions what he calls this ''optimistic scenario,'' but because it's not his role to take a position, the Perle interview is the lopsided half of a debate. Still, in a television landscape where network news is dominated by tiny sound bites and cable by shouting heads, ''Wide Angle'' has a distinct and valuable place.

WIDE ANGLE
Saddam's Ultimate Solution

On most PBS stations tonight (check local listings)

Gwynne Roberts, producer and reporter; Andy Halper, senior producer; Stephen Segaller, executive producer; Pamela Hogan, series producer; James P. Rubin, host. Produced by 13/WNET New York.

Published: 07 - 11 - 2002 , Late Edition - Final , Section E , Column 1 , Page 5

Europeans Split With U.S. on Need for Iraq Attack, Citing Mideast as Priority
By PATRICK E. TYLER (NYT) 1541 words
July 22, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 5 , Column 1

The last thing Europe wants is to be accused of going wobbly on Iraq. ... But the American talk of overthrowing Saddam Hussein by military force is raising alarms in European governments. ...
They are saying that any American miscalculation could undermine the international coalition that is fighting...

U.S. Exploring Baghdad Strike As Iraq Option
By DAVID E. SANGER AND THOM SHANKER (NYT) 1481 words
July 29, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 5

As the Bush administration considers its military options for deposing Saddam Hussein, senior administration and Pentagon officials say they are exploring a new if risky approach: take Baghdad and one or two key command centers and weapons depots first, in hopes of cutting off the country's leadership and causing a...

Qaeda Videos Seem to Show Chemical Tests
By JUDITH MILLER (NYT) 1342 words
August 19, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 1

A vast cache of videotapes from Afghanistan provides the clearest evidence yet to corroborate United States government charges that Al Qaeda developed and tested chemical agents, according to experts who have seen some of them. ... Last night, CNN began broadcasting portions of tapes it obtained, one of which shows...

Saddam And Terror
By WILLIAM SAFIRE (NYT) Op-Ed 766 words
August 22, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 23 , Column 1

Brent Scowcroft and his leave-Saddam-alone acolytes on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board insist ''there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations.'' But here are two names of intense current interest to American counterterror agents. ... One is Fowzi Saad al-Obeidi, an Iraqi intelligence officer who supposedly defected...

TRACES OF TERROR: PERSPECTIVES; German Leader's Warning: War Plan Is a Huge Mistake
By STEVEN ERLANGER (NYT) Series 1473 words
September 5, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 3

Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, believes that the Bush administration is making a terrible mistake in planning a war against Iraq, and he is not afraid to say ... A new war in the Middle East, he says bluntly, would put at risk all that has been gained so far...

TRACES OF TERROR: LEGAL ACTION; Suit by Victims' Kin Says Iraq Knew of 9/11 Plans
By TINA KELLEY (NYT) 332 words
September 5, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 15 , Column 1

Families of some victims of the Sept. 11 attacks filed a class action lawsuit yesterday against Iraq and others, charging that Iraqi government officials knew about plans for the attacks and conspired with Al Qaeda to seek revenge for Iraq's defeat in the Persian Gulf ... The suit, filed in...

VIGILANCE AND MEMORY: THE PRESIDENT; Bush to Warn U.N.: Act on Iraq or U.S. Will; He Leads Nation in Mourning at Terror Sites
By DAVID E. SANGER AND JULIA PRESTON (NYT) 1729 words
September 12, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 6

President Bush plans to challenge the United Nations today to enforce resolutions it has passed since 1991 requiring Iraq to ''unconditionally accept'' the destruction of its chemical and biological weapons and nuclear research facilities, according to administration officials. He will warn that if the United Nations fails to act, the...

THREATS AND RESPONSES: NEWS ANALYSIS; A New Face In the Sights
By PATRICK E. TYLER (NYT) News Analysis 1187 words
September 13, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 5

President Bush has formally changed the face of America's primary enemy from Osama bin Laden, whereabouts unknown, to Saddam Hussein, an old nemesis who cheated both Mr. Bush's father and President Clinton out of fulfillment of the terms of surrender that ended the 1991 Persian Gulf war. ... The president's...

THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE PRESIDENT; Bush Presses U.N. to Act Quickly on Disarming Iraq
By DAVID E. SANGER AND ELISABETH BUMILLER (NYT) 1626 words
September 13, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 6

President Bush challenged the United Nations today to force Saddam Hussein to disarm and end torture and repression of his people, saying that if Iraq continued its defiance of international resolutions, ''action will be ... In a forceful, blunt address at the General Assembly, Mr. Bush told world leaders that...

THREATS AND RESPONSES: AMSTERDAM; On Tip, Dutch Border Police Detain Iraqi Kurdish Militant
By WALTER GIBBS (NYT) 379 words
September 14, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 9 , Column 4

A reputed Iraqi Kurd guerrilla leader who has refugee status in Norway and has been linked by some Americans to Al Qaeda has been detained in Amsterdam, according to Norwegian and Dutch ... The man, Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, better known as Mullah Krekar, was deported by Iran on Thursday, the...

THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE PRESIDENT; PUTIN QUESTIONS U.S. TERROR ALLIES
By ELISABETH BUMILLER AND PATRICK E. TYLER (NYT) 1246 words
November 23, 2002, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 5

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia welcomed President Bush to his hometown today, then raised pointed questions about the reliability of two important American allies in the campaign against terrorism, Pakistan and Saudi ... In remarks made at Mr. Bush's side in the majestic setting of Catherine Palace outside St....

Memo to the Democrats: Quit Being Losers!
By TUCKER CARLSON (NYT) 3112 words
January 19, 2003, Late Edition - Final , Section 6 , Page 36 , Column 1

This fall, for the second time in a row, the Democratic Party lost an election it should have won. Democrats offered no rationale for why they should be running the country and no vision for how they would run it. The party got the drubbing it deserved. I enjoyed ......

THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE CONTINENT; To Some in Europe, The Major Problem Is Bush the Cowboy
By DAVID E. SANGER (NYT) 1681 words
January 24, 2003, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 6

In Europe, it often seems that it is not only the wisdom of a war against Iraq that lies at the heart of trans-Atlantic differences, but the personal style of George W. Bush ... To European ears, the president's language is far too blunt, and he has been far too...

Clear Ties of Terror
By WILLIAM SAFIRE (NYT) Op-Ed 799 words
January 27, 2003, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 25 , Column 6

In the days following the Sept. 11 attacks, Secretary of State Colin Powell could find ''no clear link'' between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. ... One soon appeared. On Sept. 24, 2001, I reported: ''The clear link between the terrorist in hiding [Osama] and the terrorist in power [Saddam]...

THREATS AND RESPONSES: TERROR NETWORK; Intelligence Break Led U.S. to Tie Envoy Killing to Iraq Qaeda Cell
By PATRICK E. TYLER (NYT) 1179 words
February 6, 2003, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 4

An intelligence breakthrough in the last several weeks made it possible for Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to set forth the first evidence of what he said was a well developed cell of Al Qaeda operating out of Baghdad that was responsible for the assassination of the American diplomat...

THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE EVIDENCE; Islamists in Iraq Offer a Tour of 'Poison Factory' Cited by Powell
By C. J. CHIVERS (NYT) 1038 words
February 9, 2003, Late Edition - Final , Section 1 , Page 17 , Column 1

Ansar al Islam, the militant Islamic group that occupies a small part of northern Iraq, briefly opened access today to a primitive military compound that the United States has described as a poisons and explosives factory that is supported by both Baghdad and Al ... The existence of this camp,...

THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE TERRORISTS; Tape Ascribed to bin Laden Urges Muslims to Stand With Iraq
By NEIL MACFARQUHAR (NYT) 612 words
February 12, 2003, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 18 , Column 3

A recorded message apparently made by Osama bin Laden called on Muslims today to repulse any United States attempt to invade Iraq, urging them to apply the lessons learned by Al Qaeda, his terror network. ... The message stressed that no matter how distasteful it might be to believers, fighting...

THREATS AND RESPONSES: BAGHDAD; EXPERTS CONFIRM NEW IRAQI MISSILE EXCEEDS U.N. LIMIT
By JULIA PRESTON WITH ERIC SCHMITT (NYT) 1869 words
February 13, 2003, Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 6

A panel of arms experts convened by United Nations weapons inspectors has confirmed that a missile Iraq has developed exceeds range limits set by the Security Council. ... The panel's conclusion will add fuel to the United States' argument that Iraq is defying Security Council disarmament resolutions, and it is.

I posted the above to the corkboards (Left and Right respectively) I visit quite often using the name "ohkneel". The responses I received were just like the e-mail Bill O'Reilly reads at the end of his show!

Fri Oct 29 11:58 * - Subject: The New York Times, Iraq, and More (x-post)
ohkneel said:

Here, please. article too long for posting on cork

An intersting look at articles through recent years regarding the war, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Iraq, and the UN.

Please read through the numerous articles, provided in chronological order. They are given in brief format; however, the full thrust of each article is understood through its first fifty words.

Responses from the Left:

Fri Oct 29 23:36 ~ - Subject: * - 0 reaction(s)
Lethal said:
Exactly how much does Rove pay you to pollute these corks, anyway?

Fri Oct 29 12:15 ~ - Subject: * - 0 reaction(s)
Just watchin said:
If it survives, there's a good job waiting for you in the Office of Special Plans.

Responses from the Right

Fri Oct 29 14:54 ~ - Subject: * - 0 reaction(s)
Lord Lex said:
Thanks for this..impressive.

Fri Oct 29 13:44 ~ - Subject: * - 0 reaction(s)
lessa said:
that history is incredible...
just awe inspiring...
thank you...
all that work...
you are just incredible...
how anyone can read this and then still insist kerry is "da'man!"...
is just not able to comprehend what those articles really mean...

Fri Oct 29 13:26 ~ - Subject: * - 0 reaction(s)
DarkFantasy said:
that is incredible...
thank you ohkneel....
it delineates exactly what happened, lest we forget and kerry's lies obscure...
kerry would have let the inspectors do their job...
Bush was there and begged and threatened Saddam to do just that....
kerry would have continued to rely on the sanctions...
we now know, Oil for Food made a mockery of them and had been since '96...

kerry is either stupid or lying...
and, the NYTimes is aiding and abetting, if not leading him...
all of his flip flops - you can watch the way the wind shifted and time his moves...

Fri Oct 29 12:16 * - Subject: * - 0 reaction(s)
Bushit said: