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To: John Carragher who wrote (114689)	9/13/2003 10:24:05 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

Wolfowitz backs off on al-Qaida claim Sept. 13, 2003, 12:36AM Wolfowitz backs off on al-Qaida claim Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon's No. 2 official retreated Friday from his assertion that key lieutenants of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden are plotting with Saddam Hussein loyalists to kill Americans in Iraq. In interviews on Thursday's anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said hundreds of fighters from al-Qaida and other groups are now in Iraq. Wolfowitz also said "a great many" bin Laden operatives were trying to link up with remnants of Saddam's regime to attack Americans. "We know it (Iraq) had a great deal to do with terrorism in general and with al-Qaida in particular ... ," he told ABC's Good Morning America. But Wolfowitz -- an architect of U.S. policy in Iraq -- said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press that he had misspoken. He said U.S. troops were still trying to identify foreign fighters flowing into Iraq and whether they are collaborating with Saddam loyalists resisting the U.S.-led occupation forces. On the subject of bin Laden deputies, Wolfowitz said he was referring to only one man -- bin Laden supporter Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, one of the few names that Bush administration officials previously have cited to assert links between al-Qaida and Iraq before the war. chron.com