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To: LindyBill who wrote (42382)	9/6/2002 1:04:03 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

Al Quada had plenty of money and training without going to Saddam. Bin Laden was rich, they had limitless heroin to run in Afghanistan, and it didn't take that much money to begin with. The idea that an operation born out of the Afghanistan Mujahedin had to go to Saddam for any kind of training is, well, useful for propaganda purposes. One thing Iraq could, conceivably, have supplied was pilot training; we know there was enough risk in doing that here that with a little luck and / or less bureaucratic ineptitude the 9/11 operation would have been blown. But the pilots were trained in the US.