Clinton Adviser:
CIA Covering Up Saddam's Role in 9/11

Nov. 13, 2002

The Central Intelligence Agency has suppressed evidence that Saddam Hussein had a hand in training Osama bin Laden's kamikaze hijackers for the 9/11 attacks, as well as previous al-Qaeda attacks on U.S. interests around the world, an Iraq expert who advised ex-President Clinton said Tuesday.

"We have a situation which the bureaucracies that dealt with terrorism in the Clinton years, including the CIA, accommodated Clinton's desire not to hear that Iraq was involved in any of these attacks," Clinton 1992 campaign adviser Laurie Mylroie told Fox News Channel's "On the Record."

"They continue in that position and it will cost American lives," added the Gulf War expert, whose book "The War Against America" details Saddam Hussein's role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Mylroie, who has taught at the Naval War College as well as Harvard, said "indications" that Saddam was involved in 9/11 include "Iraq's training of non-Iraqi militants to take over airplanes using weapons like box cutters," a reference to Salman Pak, Saddam's notorious airliner-hijacking school located 45 miles south of Baghdad.

"Osama bin Laden and Iraqi intelligence work together," she contended. "Iraqi intelligence provides the direction, training and expertise for these major attacks. And al-Qaeda provides the cover, the ideology and the foot soldiers."

Mylroie isn't the only Clinton adviser who believes that Iraq had a hand in 9/11. Former Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey has publicly endorsed accounts from Iraqi defectors who describe a seven-year-old hijack training program at Salman Pak.

Last November he told the Fox News Channel:

"We know that at Salman Pak, on the southern edge of Baghdad, five different eyewitnesses - three Iraqi defectors and two American U.N. inspectors - have said - and now there are aerial photographs to show it - a Boeing 707 that was used for training of hijackers, including non-Iraqi hijackers trained very secretly to take over airplanes with knives."

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