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To: xcr600 who wrote (113347)	8/29/2003 1:38:46 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Correct. But I want to know the connection prior to the war From what I've read, the terrorist organizations link to each other in a kind of loose network. Both Al Qaeda and Saddam influenced pieces of this network, though they didn't work directly together. Of course, US war on Iraq was one of OBL's chief grievances. Other points of commonality: 1) Saddam trained Islamist terrorists at Salman Pak 2) Abu Niddal was in Baghdad 3) Iraqi intelligence gave money & orders to Ansar al Islam in eastern Kurdistan, an Al Qaeda allianced group. 4) Saddam paid $300,000 to Al Zawahiri in 1998, just when Al Qaeda acquired Al Zawahiri's Muslim Brotherhood Quite enough connection to lead intelligence officers to conclude that Saddam & al Qaeda allianced groups could coordinate against the common enemy, the US. Or was the plan to attack Iraq and lure AL Qaeda into the country to "trap" them? No, I think that just happened. As Tom Friedman says, the terrorists know that they're fighting the Big One. It's also true that if they're there, then they're not here, plotting another 9/11.

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