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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (157762)	6/9/2003 10:15:47 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

No Bob, its true. The US used chemical weapons.

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (157762)	6/9/2003 10:20:29 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 164684

BTW Bob, we also doubled funding for Saddam after he gassed the Iranians.

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (157762)	6/9/2003 10:36:37 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 164684

Top Al-Qaeda detainees deny links to Iraq WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two high-ranking al-Qaeda suspects currently in US custody have told CIA (news - web sites) interrogators the terror network did not work with the government of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). Top al-Qaeda planner and recruiter Abu Zubaydah, captured in March 2002, told the CIA Monday that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) rejected proposals of working with Saddam Hussein because he did not want to be beholden to him, the New York Times reported Monday. Al-Qaeda chief of operations Khalid Sheik Mohammed, captured in March this year, also told questioners that al-Qaeda did not work with Saddam. The Times said it had received information about the briefings from several intelligence officials, one of whom downplayed the significance of the denials, saying everything al-Qaeda detainees say must be regarded with skepticism. Others, however, noted that President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s administration had kept mum about the detainees' denials while playing up other details that seemed to support their case of a link between Iraq (news - web sites) and al-Qaeda -- one of the stated justifications for launching war on Saddam Hussein. "I remember reading the Abu Zubaydah debriefing last year, while the administration was talking about all of these other reports, and thinking that they were only putting out what they wanted," an unnamed official was quoted as saying. The White House, State Department and Pentagon (news - web sites) declined to comment to the Times on why results of the Zubaydah's interrogation were not made public. "This gets to the serious question of to what extent did they try to align the facts with the conclusions that they wanted," an official told the Times. "Things pointing in one direction were given a lot of weight, and other things were discounted." Those charges echo a debate currently raging in Washington over whether the administration manipulated or overstated intelligence reports on the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Those weapons have not yet been found -- though US officials vehemently insist they will be. story.news.yahoo.com