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Just heard on FoxNews Channel that Blair says that his dossier will link Saddam Hussein
to Usama Bin Laden terror planning and training. CHECKMATE.

Relevant factoids I've heard in the last couple of days.

1. Osama bin Laden visited Sadaam in Iraq sometime in the mid-1990s. This is the
contention of "Sadaam's former mistress" whose interview with Claire Shipman
took up about half of ABC's Primetime on Thursday night.
I don't know what sort of auxiliary fact-checking has been done regarding this
report.

2. Sadaam has bankrolled the current Palestinian intifada to the tune of
$30 MILLION. I heard this last night, I believe on the CBS Evening News.
I knew Sadaam was handing out those $5K to $25K booby prizes to the Palestinian
suicide/homicide bombers...but $30 MILLION will buy a LOT of trouble.

Additionally, I'm happy Blair will put out this dossier with this Sadaam-Osama link info.
Earlier this spring a writer (New Yorker? New York Times Mag?) put out a long
article that cited lots of tenuous evidence that Sadaam had been busy making friends with
anyone he could...including Islamic fundamentalists like Osama since the end of
The Gulf War.

It will be interesting to see how Blair's/Britain's report will flesh this out.