Senate Report Sees No Formal Iraq-Qaeda Ties

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Contacts between Iraq (news - web sites) and al Qaeda in the 1990s never led to a formal relationship and there is no evidence Iraq helped conduct an al Qaeda attack, a report by a bipartisan Senate committee said on Friday.


The findings by the Senate Intelligence Committee came less than a month after the government-established commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks said there was no evidence of a "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s Islamic militant network.

Assertions that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and could provide chemical or biological agents to al Qaeda for attacks on the United States were a main justification for President Bush (news - web sites)'s decision to invade and occupy Iraq.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040709/ts_nm/iraq_intelligence_qaeda_dc_1

[hrhdeb]

1. Is anyone really suprised?

We all pretty much knew this was a fabrication, didn't we? Funny that Cheney is still trying to convince us otherwise.

deb

http://www.votewhileyoustillcan.com

[havocmom]

2. You mean Unca Dick lied?

:wow:

[struggle4progress]

3. Old habits are hard to break. eom