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To: zonder who wrote (4996)3/5/2003 11:38:45 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 15987
 
Well, this is what your article says:

According to TNR, the CIA's initial decision to dismiss Hamza (he later persuaded the agency of his importance) emanated from the fact that his first contacts were arranged by the Iraqi National Congress, a dissident group the CIA distrusted in the 1990s.

"The CIA's antipathy toward the INC dates back to Clinton-era efforts to topple Saddam," reports the magazine, noting that the agency suspected a leading INC figure leaked information that resulted in the deaths of several anti-Saddam coup plotters in 1996.

Clinton holdovers at the agency have also dismissed accounts from multiple Iraqi defectors and a former UNSCOM weapons inspector who point to Saddam's direct involvement in a Baghdad-area terrorist training school that taught al-Qaeda recruits hijacking techniques identical to those employed on 9/11......
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