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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.
The Pentagon-sponsored study, scheduled for release later this week, did confirm that Saddam's regime provided some support to other terrorist groups, particularly in the Middle East , U.S. officials told McClatchy . However, his security services were directed primarily against Iraqi exiles, Shiite Muslims, Kurds and others he considered enemies of his regime.
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Interesting that this is a "Pentagon-sponsored" study. Not the machinations of some "anti-american, liberal, pinko commie think tank" out to undermine the US Government.
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What would Saddam's interest in attacking the US be?
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And that, my dear Kapitan, is the question. Why indeed, would Saddam Hussein have WMDs in the first place to use against the US if he had no intentions, nor were his "terrorist" ties to groups who were acting outside the Middle East. One can argue he used chemicals against the Kurds, but that is a far cry from deploying them in a place like NYC.
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President Bush and his aides used Saddam's alleged relationship with al Qaida, along with Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction, as arguments for invading Iraq after the September 11, 2001 , terrorist attacks.
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Our "intelligence" was good enough, according to some, to find "WMDs" in Iraq, and yet, could have missed this?