Latest Iraq-Al Qaeda "Evidence" Proves False

[G_j]

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LATEST IRAQ-AL QAEDA "EVIDENCE" PROVES FALSE

Just days after the bipartisan 9/11 Commission acknowledged that there was
"no credible evidence"<1> to support the White House's pre-war assertions of
an Iraq-al Qaeda connection,<2> the Bush administration is now putting out
"new evidence" that supposedly proves the claim. But as reported by
newspapers around the country, senior U.S. intelligence officials say this
"evidence" is false.

Days after Vice President Dick Cheney claimed he "probably"<3> had more
evidence than the 9/11 Commission to prove an Iraq-al Qaeda connection,
Republican commissioner John Lehman said he was given "new intelligence"<4>
showing that "at least one officer of Saddam's Fedayeen, a lieutenant
colonel, was a very prominent member of al Qaeda."<5> But according to U.S.
officials, intelligence experts are "highly skeptical that the Iraqi officer
had any connection to al-Qaida."<6> Newsday noted that the CIA concluded "a
long time ago" that the individual in question "was not an officer in Saddam
Hussein's army."<7>

President Bush and Vice President Cheney have both continued to insist on an
Iraq-al Qaeda connection, despite "senior U.S. officials now saying there
never was any evidence that Saddam's secular police state and Osama bin
Laden's Islamic terrorism network were in league."<8> Members of the 9/11
Commission are formally calling on Cheney to provide any shred of proof<9>
to support his assertion last week that "the evidence is overwhelming"<10>
that the Iraqi government had a relationship with al Qaeda.

Sources:

1. "9-11 panel finds 'no credible evidence' of link between al-Qaida and
Iraq", The Seattle Times, 6/17/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1333383&l=41725.
2. Presidential Remarks, WhiteHouse.gov, 9/17/2003,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1333383&l=41726.
3. "Al Qaeda Link To Iraq May Be Confusion Over Names", Washington Post,
6/22/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1333383&l=41727.
4. "Al-Qaida, Fedayeen militia tie disputed", AZCentral.com, 6/22/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1333383&l=41728.
5. "Iraqi officer tied to al Qaeda", Reuters UK, 6/20/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1333383&l=41729
=532610§ion=news.
6. "Intelligence experts cast doubt on ties between Iraq, al-Qaida", Knight
Ridder, 6/21/2004, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1333383&l=41730.
7. "CIA: No Iraqi officer link in al-Qaida meeting", Newsday, 6/22/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1333383&l=41731
318.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines.
8. "Doubts Cast on Efforts to Link Saddam, al-Qaida", Common Dreams News
Center, 3/03/2004, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1333383&l=41732.
9. "Sept. 11 Panel Asks Cheney for Saddam-Al Qaeda Evidence", NPR: All
Things Considered, 6/20/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1333383&l=41733.
10. "Al-Qaida, Fedayeen militia tie disputed", AZCentral.com, 6/22/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1333383&l=41728.

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[louis c]

1. There's far more evidence

linking the Bush family with the bin Laden family, than any direct link with Saddam. There's an old saying that the Bush administration should remember. When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Naw. Let 'em dig til the sides collapse in on 'em.

[greekspeak]

3. How STUPID are Americans to keep swallowing the ShrubCo Corporate Line?

This is vulgar. Lie, Lie, Lie, Lie. It isn't so easy now for the minions to get every press outlet in sight to cowtow. Must hurt a lot, that proverbial knife pulled out of the backs of Max Cleland and John McCain and thrust deep into Cheney's.

[Stone_Spirits]

6. duplicitous liars, there is no end

criminals, traitors, murderers

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[G_j]

5. welcome to DU Jaged!

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