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To: GST who wrote (52734)	10/17/2002 4:54:03 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The latest story google comes up with is from a couple days ago: Much of the argument that such a link exists is based on a meeting that may or may not have taken place in Prague a few months before the attack between Mohammed Atta, believed to have been the ringleader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, and a senior Iraqi intelligence officer, Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al Ani. Czech officials said the meeting took place but the CIA failed to verify it. reuters.com The Prague line has been floated and retracted so many times I lose count. Given the screws being put on the CIA to support the marketing effort, you can bet they don't have anything like real evidence there. But the marketeers apparently have been successful on another front. According to the Pew Research Center poll, 86 percent of those surveyed believed Saddam had nuclear weapons or was close to acquiring them, and 66 percent believed he was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, a linkage that the administration has never made. Oh well. First casualty and all that.

To: GST who wrote (52734)	10/17/2002 4:55:36 PM
From: Logain Ablar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No evidence of a link is not the same as stating there is evidence a link doesn't exist. Right now there is no concrete public evidence of a link. Doesn't mean evidence doesn't exist. Its rather difficult for this administration to even provide information to the Senate and House Intelligence committee's after the recent leak. The administration did brief the democratic leadership and both did vote for the latest resolution.