LRD got its USAID status when "former" Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist and FBI award revokee Imad Hamad lobbied Senator Carl Levin (D-MI).
Well, well, well... PFLP is of course a Saddam Hussein backed terror group, Mr. Levine.
Paging the Democrats. At this point, they've completely re-written history. Now Saddam not only didn't have a relationship with AQ, he didn't even support terrorists.