"It's possible, of course, that the evidence presented by military prosecutors is exaggerated, maybe even wrong. The evidence required to designate a detainee an "enemy combatant" is lower than the "reasonable doubt" standard of U.S. criminal prosecutions. So there is much we don't know."
The "truth" or something like it, may eventually come out, but the claims of Allawi, about documents not yet verified, and the self serving reports by folks who defected to he West, are not very good evidence. That Saddam would have put out feelers to Al Qaeda, in order to get them to leave him alone would surprise me not at all. Why it would make the folks who wrote this article think Saddam and AQ were a team, surprises me. Saddam would have known they were a threat to him- as some of their rhetoric indicates.
Seems to me if you looked at the Saudi connection to Al Q you'd find a lot more travel and a lot more money, and we didn't invade them....
I didn't find much new in the article, and it's funny where it turned up on the net:
frontpagemag.com
Gosh just look at that fair and balanced T-shirt! Hard to take anything seriously when it's written by partisans who start out with a conclusion, and write an article in order to justify it. Happens on both sides of course, but it's never very convincing. No doubt the article will make people who already believe in the connection even more convinced they are right, and people who want actual proof, will wait for actual proof. |
