Document links Saddam, bin Laden

[GRClarkesq]

By GILBERT S. MERRITT
For The Tennessean

Federal appellate Judge Gilbert S. Merritt of Nashville is in Iraq as one of 13 experts selected by the U.S. Justice Department to help rebuild Iraq's judicial system.

Merritt, 67, has made trips to Russia and India to work with their judicial systems. He has been sending periodic reports to The Tennessean about his experiences in Iraq and filed this dispatch recently:

Through an unusual set of circumstances, I have been given documentary evidence of the names and positions of the 600 closest people in Iraq to Saddam Hussein, as well as his ongoing relationship with Osama bin Laden.

I am looking at the document as I write this story from my hotel room overlooking the Tigris River in Baghdad.

http://tennessean.com/nation-world/archives/03/06/34908297.shtml?Element_ID=34908297

[skip2mylou]

1. Is it LBN when the article is dated June 25, 2003?

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[dflprincess]

2. I suppose if I express any skepticism

about the timing of this "find", I'll be accused of wearing yet another :tinfoilhat:

[radfringe]

3. Anyone know anything about this guy?

sorry, I'm being skeptical of any documents that "suddenly" show up

[AnnabelLee]

4. This sounds like absolute twaddle to me

Niger lies heating up? Well, looky looky, step right up, get yer Saddam-Al-Qaeda links. These so-called documents probably have the same provenance as those detailing Saddam's payments to George Galloway.:eyes:

[patdem]

5. IF these documents could be PROVEN factual....it would have been

all over the press....says to me the Tenneesean is not very careful about what they publish? :shrug:

[Jolene]

6. You think THAT'S something...

you should hear what Uday wanted to do to everyone on that list!

http://tennessean.com/nation-world/archives/03/06/34908298.shtml?Element_ID=34908298

This sounds like US propaganda, planted to get Hussein's men not to trust him.

[VolcanoJen]

7. Not LBN... locking

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