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Iraq/al Qaeda Connection

Saddam friendly to terror groups - Newly declassified documents show a number of links between the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein and violent terrorist or Islamist groups, many of them dating from the early 1990s. Read more.

Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq - "This says weapons have been discovered, more weapons exist and they state that Iraq was not a WMD-free zone, that there are continuing threats from the materials that are or may still be in Iraq," said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Read more.

Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties - CNSNews.com - Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com , show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. Read more.

Clinton first linked al Qaeda to Saddam - A Washington Times piece pointing out that then-President Clinton cited an al Qaeda-Baghdad link to justify the bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan. Read more.

9/11 Commission Backs Iraq/al Qaeda Connection - USA Today - Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton said he did not understand the media flap over this issue and that the commission does not disagree with the administration's assertion that there were connections between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's government. Read more.

Three Prisoners in N. Iraq Outline Links Between Al Qaeda and Iraq - ABC News - "The U.S. believes Iraq has had contact with al Qaeda," I said, "Do you know that to be a fact?" "Yes. In '92, elements of al Qaeda came to Baghdad and met with Saddam Hussein." (ABC has taken down their link to the story but you can still see a copy of it. It's the second story down the page.) Read more.

Saddam Hussein had link with Al Qaeda - The Daily Times - "The record of Saddam shows very well his connections to international terrorists, like Carlos and Abu Nidal." Read more.

The Iraq -- Al Qaeda Connections - Tech Central Station - A wealth of evidence on the public record -- from government reports and congressional testimony to news accounts from major newspapers -- attests to longstanding ties between bin Laden and Saddam going back to 1994. Read more.

The Weekly Standard - This conventional wisdom--that our two most determined enemies were not in league, now or ever--is comforting. It is also wrong. Read more.

TownHall.com - Cal Thomas: Perhaps this can be placed in a context more Americans would understand. Suppose that instead of radical Islamists (would the non-radicals kindly step forward and isolate and eliminate the radicals?), we were talking about the Mafia. Read more.

The Weekly Standard - The CIA has confirmed, in interviews with detainees and informants it finds highly credible, that al Qaeda's Number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, met with Iraqi intelligence in Baghdad in 1992 and 1998. Read more.

Front Page Magazine - Ansar al-Islam, an al-Qaeda affiliate active in Iraqi Kurdistan since September 2001, is a prototype of America's enemies in the "war on terror." Read more.

Washington Times - President Bush yesterday said Saddam Hussein had ties to al Qaeda before and after the September 11 attacks, in his first response to an investigative panel's portrayal of the relationship as not a "collaborative" one. Read more.

National Review - Al-Fadl told agents that when al Qaeda was headquartered in the Sudan in the early-to-mid-1990s, he understood an agreement to have been struck under which the jihadists would put aside their antipathy for Saddam and explore ways of working together with Iraq, particularly regarding weapons production. Read more.
The Coalition of the Bribed - Ever wondered why France and Russia refused to help us in Iraq? Wonder no more. Saddam bought them off. Read the Reuters story here.
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