Final: Iraq Had No Links To Al Qaeda |
| Published: March 11, 2008, 3:32 pm |
| Tags: 2008 election, iraq, military, the war on terrorism, war |
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They looked through more than 600,000 of the regime’s documents and have found nothing. I repeat…they have found absolutely no evidence whatsoever of operational ties to al Qaeda. From McClatchy: The Pentagon-sponsored study, scheduled for release later this week, did confirm that Saddam’s regime provided some support to other terrorist groups, particularly in the Middle East, U.S. officials told McClatchy. However, his security services were directed primarily against Iraqi exiles, Shiite Muslims, Kurds and others he considered enemies of his regime. The new study of the Iraqi regime’s archives found no documents indicating a “direct operational link” between Hussein’s Iraq and al Qaida before the invasion, according to a U.S. official familiar with the report. […] As recently as last July, Bush tried to tie al Qaida to the ongoing violence in Iraq. “The same people that attacked us on September the 11th is a crowd that is now [ Full article ] |
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