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Ex-CIA Chief Woolsey Sees Iraqi Fingerprints
NewsMax.com Wires
Friday, September 14, 2001
WASHINGTON -- A former CIA chief sees the hand of Iraq
behind
Tuesday's attacks, and he warned the White House not to
shirk the
hard realities of possible state sponsorship.
"First of all we have to find out who did this thing," R.
James
Woolsey told United Press International in a phone
interview
Thursday.
But he said the Bush administration must "undo the
mistakes of the
Clinton administration and not just look at loose
associations of
terrorists or a terrorist group" such as that of Osama bin
Laden's al
Qaida, but also at the serious ramifications of possible
state
involvement.
Woolsey served as director of central intelligence in the
first Clinton
administration from Feb. 5, 1993 to Jan. 10, 1995. He and
Clinton
were not close. In 1996 the hawkish Democrat endorsed GOP
presidential candidate Bob Dole.
The Washington power lawyer told UPI that he is not sure
that Iraq is
involved in the attacks, but added: "What we don't want to
do is what
the Clinton administration did and put blinders on about
state
involvement by focusing just on a terrorist group."
To do so, he said, is to risk falling into a trap laid by
bin Laden and
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
"Why else would (bin Laden) issue fatwas (Islamic edicts)
and put
out videotapes and chant poems and have all his
subordinates
come up on networks where they know they're being listened
to and
all talk about how they're carrying out terrorist
operations?" Woolsey
asked.
He suggested that Saddam Hussein could be "sitting there
grinning
with bin Laden, saying: 'This is good for both of us. I
don't get
blamed, and you get the credit you want.'"
In criticizing the Clinton administration, Woolsey
referred to a series
of plots in New York City in the early 1990s, notably the
initial
bombing of the World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993. Two
factors
were at work, he said.
The first was the facts of the various bomb plots were
unclear but
that prosecutors had blurred the distinctions for their
own purposes.
"It was easier for the prosecution to get convictions of
all of the
people who might have been involved in any of these plots
in New
York if they folded all the charges together under the
Seditious
Conspiracy Law and said it was all one conspiracy,"
Woolsey told
UPI.
"If it's all one conspiracy inspired by the blind sheikh,"
he said,
referring to so-call mastermind Omar Abd Al-Rahman - "that
is, the
World Trade Center, and the effort to blow up the Holland
Tunnel, the
Lincoln Tunnel and the U.N., etc. - it confuses things for
a jury to
come in and say, 'And by the way, the Iraqi government was
also
involved.'"
The second important factor, Woolsey said, was that the
Clinton
administration "was less than enthusiastic about having
confrontations with Saddam" in which American casualties
might be
incurred. "So I think there is a real chance that Iraqi
government
sponsorship was overlooked."
Woolsey commended Laurie Mylroie's opinion essay "Bin Laden
Isn't Only One to Blame," which appeared in Thursday's
editions of
the Wall Street Journal, as well as "Getting Serious," the
newspaper's accompanying editorial.
He said that his essay "The Iraqi Connection: Blood
Baath," which
appeared latter Thursday on the New Republic Online,
"takes off
from some of Laurie's work on the '93 bombing of the World
Trade
Center, and suggests that the U.S. government now should
go back
and look hard at the possibility that there was Iraqi
government
involvement in that.
"And if the Iraqis were involved in '93 and have gotten
away with it
for eight years, and then launched another attack that has
some real
similarities both in target and in methodology to previous
attacks
against the World Trade Center and trying to blow up an
airliner in
the Pacific, we may have a modus operandi."
Woolsey said that Mylroie endorses the thesis of Jim Fox,
who
handled the FBI's investigation of the 1993 World Trade
Center
bombing for the first year and a half. Fox died in 1997.
Fox's theory, Woolsey told UPI, is "Ramzi Yousef is not
just a
random person we don't know, but is in fact an Iraqi
government
asset." In 1998 Yousef was sentenced to life plus 240
years for the
1993 bombing.
Woolsey expanded on the Fox-Mylroie theory in his New
Republic
essay.
According to this view, Ramzi Yousef was not the alias of a
Pakistani named Abdul Basit, as it had been believed.
Rather,
Yousef was an Iraqi agent who had assumed Basit's identity
when
occupying Iraqi intelligence officers doctored police
files in Kuwait,
where the real Abdul Basit had lived in 1990.
Woolsey noted that Abdul Basit and his family disappeared
during
the occupation and have never been seen again.
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