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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (51482)	10/12/2002 1:06:09 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<...Equally hard to assess is the extent of Iraq's links, if any, to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups -- an early and key rationale for attacking Iraq put forward repeatedly by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other administration hawks. More recently, Bush cited reports of Iraqi aid to Palestinian terrorist groups and al Qaeda and warned that Hussein could use them as proxies to attack the United States. "Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists," Bush said Monday. "Alliance with terrorists could allow the Iraqi regime to attack America without leaving any fingerprints." Most terrorism experts agree, however, that links between Hussein's government and al Qaeda are murky at best. Until late summer, most administration officials -- and CIA and FBI investigators -- said that despite allegations of links between Mohamed Atta, the main planner of the terrorist attacks, and an Iraqi intelligence agent, there was no evidence of ties. They also noted that Osama bin Laden has long been hostile to the decidely secular Hussein...>> Lots of Guesstimates and VERY LITTLE proof...ah, but after 9/11 who needs proof...?? Some of the NeoCon WarHawks feel we have to be pre-emptive (even if we destabilize the Middle East along the way)...=)