Ted Re...Nearly a year after U.S. and British troops invaded Iraq, no evidence has turned up to verify allegations of Saddam's links with al-Qaida, and several key parts of the administration's case have either proved false or seem increasingly doubtful.
Senior U.S. officials now say there never was any evidence that Saddam's secular police state and Osama bin Laden's Islamic terrorism network were in league. At most, there were occasional meetings.
The fact that there were occasional meetings, proves that there was a connection. How big of a one is questionable, but there was a connection. Otherwise, there would have been no meetings.
Much of the evidence that's now available indicates that Iraq and al-Qaida had no close ties, despite repeated contacts between the two; that the terrorists who administration officials claimed were links between the two had no direct connection to either Saddam or bin Laden; and that a key meeting between an Iraqi intelligence officer and one of the leaders of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks probably never happened.
Once again, repeated contacts, between their subordinates, is a connection. To assume otherwise, would be ridiculous. Secondly, nobody, except the CIA knows the extent of classified information not released yet. Based on the totality of the connections, assuming a connection could very well be reasonable assumption., |
