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To: stockman_scott who wrote (43074)	9/10/2002 3:30:56 PM
From: Rascal	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Bush Abandons Claim of Iraq-Al Qaeda Link (What really surprises me is that the U.S. intelligence community has refused to "create" a trail for BUsh to justify invasion. This must mean that some systems are working somewhere. Maybe we can't falsify things the way JEdger Hoover did because of the great number of foreign intelligence agencies.) As it makes its case against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration has for now dropped what had been one of the central arguments presented by supporters of a military campaign against Baghdad: Iraq's links to al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Although administration officials say they are still trying to develop a strong case tying Hussein to global terrorism, the CIA has yet to find convincing evidence despite having combed its files and redoubled its efforts to collect and analyze information related to Iraq... [Analysts] cannot validate two prominent allegations made by high-ranking administration officials: links between Hussein and al Qaeda members who have taken refuge in northern Iraq and an April 2001 meeting in Prague between Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence agent. washingtonpost.com