Report ties Iraqi intelligence with al Qaeda New Yorker article contrary to CIA stance

SF Chronicle ^ | 3-18-02 | John Mintz, Washington Post

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Washington -- A new report in the New Yorker magazine suggests that Iraqi intelligence has been in close touch with top officials in Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group for years, and that the two organizations jointly run a terrorist organization in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

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[Kermit]

"The CIA has largely discounted the proposition that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has maintained links with al Qaeda."

The CIA has been wrong and out of it on Iraq for years. The Iraqi National Congress has had better intelligence on Saddam and Iraq than the CIA has and the CIA hates it. Screw the CIA!

[OldFriend]

Perhaps it's time to look for al Qaueda connections in the CIA, and the State Department too for that matter. Seems our own institutions are riddled with those who would look away at any threat to America. Time to clean house.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[ellery]

Yes -- is this the same CIA that: 1. Completely and utterly failed to predict 9/11, despite the many, many people involved in planning and the 30 years of escalating Islamist terror that led up to it? 2. To this day claims that it did everything right despite its failure to predict 9/11? At this point, I tend to believe the exact opposite of whatever the CIA happens to be asserting...

[Free the USA]

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[Museum Twenty]

The Vice-President discussed this New Yorker article on today's (3/24/02) Meet the Press. I have not seen the original article. Does anyone have a postable version or a link to the full article?

TIA!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Here is the New Yorker Article posted on FR last night The Great Terror: new evidence of Saddam Hussein's war on the Kurds and possible ties to Al Qaeda

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[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Boyd]

'A new report in the New Yorker magazine suggests that Iraqi intelligence has been in close touch with top officials in Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group for years, and that the two organizations jointly run a terrorist organization in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq.'

uh-huh... yadida, yadida, yadida...OY.