Wednesday, May 07, 2003

The myth has now been accepted as fact in a court of law....

A federal judge Wednesday ordered Osama bin Laden,Saddam Hussein and others to pay nearly $104 million to the families of two Sept. 11 victims, saying there is evidence — though meager — that Iraq had a hand in the terrorist attacks....

In his ruling, Baer concluded that lawyers for the two victims "have shown, albeit barely ... that Iraq provided material support to bin Laden and al-Qaida" and collaborated in or supported al-Qaida's Sept. 11 attacks.

Baer said lawyers relied heavily on "classically hearsay" evidence, including reports that a Sept. 11 hijacker met an Iraqi consul to Prague, Secretary of State Colin Powell's remarks to the United Nations about connections between Iraq and terrorism, and defectors' descriptions of the use of an Iraq camp to train terrorists....


--AP

So, are we going to take this frozen Iraqi assets? Are we going to take money that rightfully belongs to the Iraqi people and -- instead of using them to help rebuild a thoroughly ravaged country -- give itto 9/11 survivors based on a fairytale?

Yeah, that ought to win some hearts and minds.

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