Saturday, April 3, 2004
Laurie Mylroie takes a shot at Richard Clarke by way of defending herself, and by doing so brings a chapter of the Iraq/Terror (and specifically 9/11) connection back into the light. Who is Ramzi Yousef, really? Where does he come from and specifically, where does his voer ID come from? The answers are interesting.
Kuwait maintained an alien resident file on Karim. That file appears to have been altered to create a false identity or "legend" for the terrorist Yousef. Above all, the file contains a fingerprint card bearing Yousef's prints. But Yousef is not Karim--as Judge Duffy implied--for many reasons, including the fact that Yousef is 6 feet tall, while Karim was significantly shorter, according to his teachers at Swansea. They do not believe their student is the terrorist mastermind. Indeed, according to Britain's Guardian newspaper, latent fingerprints lifted from material Mr. Karim left at Swansea bear "no resemblance" to Yousef's prints. They are two different people...
But the clincher comes in the following paragraph:
Much of this is lifted straight from her book, "The War Against America," originally published in 2000 under the title "Study of Revenge." An interesting read that, taken at face value, eviscerates most of Clarke's arguments.