@scooby-doo cv,
scooby-doo;54652 wrote:Im not buying into this crap,no proof was ever found linking Saddam to AQ and Bin-laden,it has been totally discredidted,you say the Clinton admin knew about it,not enough to invade the country ! The British intel,was not about a link between Saddam and AQ,it was about WMDs,which we all know was complete crap,the UN intel was not about a link between Saddam and AQ either,but the Weapons of Mass Deception.
Actually, there is a lot of proof that they communicated, talking, and discussed things, the key is that there was never any operational relationship.
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf
Page 66
There is also evidence that around this time Bin Laden sent out a number of feelers to the Iraqi regime, offering some cooperation. None are reported to have received a significant response. According to one report, Saddam Husseins's efforts at this time to rebuild relations with the Saudis and other Middle Eastern regimes led him to stay clear of Bin Laden.
In mid-1998, the situation reversed; it was Iraq that reportedlt took the initiative. In March 1998, after Bin Laden's public fatwa against the United States, two al Qaeda members reportedly went to Iraq to meet with Iraqi inteligence. In July, an Iraqi delegation traveled to Afghanistan to meet first with the Taliban and then with Bin Laden. Sources reported that one, or perhaps both, of these meetings was apparently arranged through Bin Ladens Egyptian deputy, Zawahiri, who had ties of his own to the Iraqis. In 1998, Iraq was under intensinfying U.S. pressure, whch culminated in a series of large air attacks in December.
Similar meetings between Iraqi officials and Bin Laden or his aids may have occured in 1999 during a period of some reported strains with the Taliban. According to the reporting, Iraqi officials offered Bin Laden a safe haven in Iraq. Bin Laden declined, apparently judging that his circumstances in Afghanistan remained more favorable than hte Iraqi alternative. The reports describe friendly contacts and indicate some common themes in both sides hatred of the United States.
But to date we have seen no evidence that these, or the earlier contacts ever developed into a collaberative operational relationship. Nor have we seen evidence indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or carrying out any attacks against the U.S.
There's also a book called Neo-Conned that has quite a bit of knowledgable insight if you feel like researching beyond bullet points, and sensational headlines, there's quite a bit of truth out there.
Just because you wife calls the post office to see if they are going to deliver a package, doesn't mean she is ******* the mailman.
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