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Iraq
So draw your own conclusions...
2003-11-19
"The classified annex was not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions."
Posted by:rawsnacks

#5  As we approach the election, we will probably see more of these slip out. I picture that guy Rockefeller answering the door bell only to find a burning brown lunch bag on his front porch....
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-11-19 6:55:28 PM  

#4  and the left is probably saying, "think of a happy place!, think of a happy place!, Think .... (100+ times)"
Posted by: joe   2003-11-19 4:41:42 PM  

#3  Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer
BLITZER: Let me go -- Director Woolsey, wrap up this segment for us. There's an article in the Weekly Standard that came out, referring to a memo that Doug Feith wrote, a top Pentagon official, to the chairman and the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, suggesting that the linkage, the evidence, the intelligence evidence involving al Qaeda's relationship with Saddam Hussein, goes back more than a decade.

Are you convinced that there has been a close relationship between Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime throughout the '90s?

WOOLSEY: Oh, definitely. It had been all along. George Tenet wrote a year ago October to the Congress and told them that, said there'd been a relationship going back a decade. Training in -- by Iraqi intelligence of al Qaeda in, quote, "poisons, gases and explosives."

This memo expands on that. It's a different question whether Iraqi intelligence had something to do with 9/11. That is certainly arguable. It is a different issue.

But a relationship between Iraqi intelligence and al Qaeda, this memo -- and I've seen this on the Web -- puts flesh on the bones of what George Tenet wrote a year ago.

And I would say, after reading this piece in the Weekly Standard, anybody who says there is no working relationship between al Qaeda and Iraqi intelligence going back to the early '90s, they can only say that if they're illiterate. This is a slam dunk.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2003-11-19 3:53:47 PM  

#2  great news, but the left and their big media friends will continue to deny or say "LIES, LIES,..."

it will have people like me who wondered about it convinced (finally) and fence sitters swayed. But the left, never, never. They have much to much invested in this.
Posted by: joe   2003-11-19 1:27:32 PM  

#1  Non-Denial Denial.

Hayes has a follow-up after the DOD posted this response.

The Saddam-Osama Memo (cont.)

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/396hflxy.asp
Posted by: Daniel King   2003-11-19 12:48:33 PM  

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