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Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam, al Qaida (hint to MSM, Ansar al-Islam)
Yahoo ^ | 3/10/2008 | Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers

Posted on 03/10/2008 8:37:51 PM PDT by tobyhill

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1 posted on 03/10/2008 8:37:52 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill; jveritas

What a total crock of shit


2 posted on 03/10/2008 8:46:19 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: tobyhill
direct operational link

Key word is "operational".

Should be "strategical" or "financial" or maybe just plain ol' "supportive" link.

prisoner6

3 posted on 03/10/2008 8:46:46 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
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To: pissant

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/17823.htm

Feb 20, 2003. One month before the start of the war.


4 posted on 03/10/2008 8:49:00 PM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: tobyhill
It's amazing how the msm keeps moving the goal posts to fit their agenda.
5 posted on 03/10/2008 8:49:45 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: tobyhill

“There’s no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat... Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He’s had those for a long time. — Wesley Clark on September 26, 2002

“Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.” - Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999

“If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.” - Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998

“Saddam’s goal ... is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.” — Madeline Albright, 1998

“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten time since 1983.” - Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb 18, 1998


6 posted on 03/10/2008 8:50:15 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: tobyhill

Yeah, right. Saddam’s awarding of $25K checks to the families of suicide bombers who blew themselves up on Israeli busses never happened.

Bull.


7 posted on 03/10/2008 8:51:33 PM PDT by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
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To: prisoner6
Exactly. Saddam may not had spoken to Ole Binny himself but Al-Qaeda was there and others in Saddam's circle was working with them.
8 posted on 03/10/2008 8:52:00 PM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: tobyhill

We know Sadaam and many Al Queda presently share an “operational link” in hell, which is eaxactly where they belong.


9 posted on 03/10/2008 9:02:27 PM PDT by Williams
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To: tobyhill
It was produced by a federally-funded think tank, the Institute for Defense Analyses , under contract to the Norfolk, Va .-based U.S. Joint Forces Command...whoever they are, they must have missed Steven Hayes' book "The Contact" which detailed Saddam's protection of AlQaeda fugitives, sharing of information on chemical and biological weapons with AlQaeda, and hosting AlQaeda training camps - enough linkage for me......
10 posted on 03/10/2008 9:03:08 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Parley Baer
***It was produced by a federally-funded think tank, the Institute for Defense Analyses***

IDA’s staff profile says a lot.

http://www.ida.org/aboutus/organization/staffprofiles.php

11 posted on 03/10/2008 9:03:16 PM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: tobyhill

A possible link between Saddam and Eliot Spitzer?


12 posted on 03/10/2008 9:03:34 PM PDT by onyx eyes (me and us, together)
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To: pissant

I thought there were over 2 million documents.

http://hoekstra.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=42502


13 posted on 03/10/2008 9:04:10 PM PDT by Krusty (Liberal rhymes with miserable)
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To: tobyhill

Who ever said there was an operational link between the two?!

No one has ever suggested or implied such a thing. Guess they tore that straw man to pieces!

Of course, they haven’t disproven the fact that al Qaeda did have at least one training camp in Iraq, that Zarqawi lived in Iraq, or that Saddam was paying suicide bombers.


14 posted on 03/10/2008 9:04:16 PM PDT by Tex Pete (Obama for Change: from our pockets, our piggy banks, and our couch cushions)
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To: tobyhill

I do not believe the administration ever claimed a specific Saddam/ Al Queda operation. They spoke of the danger of regimes like Saddam’s someday transferring the world’s most dangerous weapons to the world’s worst terror groups. This was based on a common hostility toward the United States.


15 posted on 03/10/2008 9:05:26 PM PDT by Williams
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To: jveritas
"WASHINGTON — An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network."

Thought you might be interested in how they still deny any connection. Their keyword here might be "operational" though.

16 posted on 03/10/2008 9:18:00 PM PDT by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
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To: Tex Pete
Al-Qaeda means the base and not all “Al-Qaeda” groups were named Al-Qaeda. Ansar al-Islam was an Al-Qaeda funded group that was a merger of a couple other Al-Qaeda funded groups long before the war. I believe there had to have been some operational links between Saddam and Ansar al-Islam which would be links to Al-Qaeda.
17 posted on 03/10/2008 9:18:32 PM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: Williams

You’re right and the State Dept doc one month before the invasion is the extent of connection anyone claimed.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/17823.htm


18 posted on 03/10/2008 9:21:46 PM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: tobyhill
An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.

I can only wonder what kind of documents they were expecting to see on their search. Some 8x10 glossies of old Saddam and Bin Laden smooching?

That would defeat the whole idea of proxy alliances between a state government and a terrorist organization. It's not that would be a new concept in that part of the world.

Maybe the "think tanks" was looking for contracts in triplicates.... signatures included.
19 posted on 03/10/2008 9:21:54 PM PDT by Tut
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To: pissant

Damn straight...saddam was targeting us since the end of desert storm....up to his ass in WTC1(bombmaker openly lived in bagdad)....the players in WTC1 clearly tied to Al Q...

gee...even I figured out in about 30 seconds...


20 posted on 03/10/2008 9:28:49 PM PDT by Crim (Dont frak with the Zeitgeist....)
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