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To: tejek who wrote (160238)	2/6/2003 6:31:46 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1578528

The BBC said a leaked document, written by an intelligence unit at the Ministry of Defense three weeks ago, concluded there is "no current link" between Iraq and al-Qaida. That statement doesn't make much sense except as speculation. There can always be links you don't know about. You can conclude that there is no evidence of links and that its very unlikely for their to be any links, or "its my opinion that there is no links". But you can't really know 100%. ""Yes, on the one hand, we do not know of a link between Iraq and the Sept. 11 attacks, but there are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq. Just how far those ... links go is a matter of speculation."" That is a much more sensible statement. It doesn't assert positive proof for a negative. Its also the type of statement I have heard a lot more of then the "There is no links or connections". In any case I am not arguing that their are any such links. I don't consider significant links with Iraq and Al-qaida to be very likely, and even if they do exist the evidence for them is too flimsy to have it be an important part of a justification for the apparently imminent conflict. Tim

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