Saturday, September 09, 2006
Oops, Our Bad
Now, about that connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda:
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A declassified report released yesterday by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence revealed that U.S. intelligence analysts were strongly disputing the alleged links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda while senior Bush administration officials were publicly asserting those links to justify invading Iraq.Oh well, mistakes were made. It's not as if any major action was initiated based on the assumption that Saddam and al Qaeda were working in tandem.
Far from aligning himself with al-Qaeda and Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Hussein repeatedly rebuffed al-Qaeda's overtures and tried to capture Zarqawi, the report said. Tariq Aziz, the detained former deputy prime minister, has told the FBI that Hussein "only expressed negative sentiments about [Osama] bin Laden."
Technorati Tags: Saddam Hussein, al Qaeda, Iraq War, pre-war intelligence
