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From CBS..

“There are connections to al Qaeda. There are documents. There are documents linking Osama bin Laden to Saddam Hussein's intelligence service. They exist. And they are in the hands of the United States government,” says Chalabi, who showed 60 Minutes one of the documents.

One document, which Chalabi says is noted “Top Secret,” is dated on March 28, 1992. Chalabi says it’s a document written by Iraq’s secret intelligence service, the Mukhabarat, listing scores of its agents in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

“On Page 14 of this document it says here, ‘The Saudi Osama bin Laden,’" says Chalabi. “Agents whom they have re-contacted by 1992 ... this is his name.”

“How so you know it's an authentic document? How do you know it's real,” asked Stahl. “The people who initialed the document before it goes on: one, two three, four signatures. We know who these people are. It's very difficult for anyone to forge the document,” says Chalabi. “You check it. You have the piece of paper in your hand. You check it.”

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60 Minutes checked it out with the defense intelligence agency, which believes the document is authentic – but of little significance. Why? It doesn’t spell out what the relationship with Osama bin Laden was, or what he did, if anything, for the Iraqis.

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“On Page 14 of this document it says here, ‘The Saudi Osama bin Laden,’" says Chalabi. “Agents whom they have re-contacted by 1992 ... this is his name.”

In 1992, was Osama Bin Laden still a CIA asset?