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To: jackhach who wrote (483285)	10/30/2003 3:26:17 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Jack, re:"this is partly true, and it indeed provided ammunition to Al-Quieda to justify its madness, however, are you at the same time stating that because the US had troops in SA (in an effort to contain Iraq) that Saddam was therefore linked to 9-11?" cbsnews.com "(AP) Documents discovered in the bombed out headquarters of Iraq's intelligence service provide evidence of a direct link between Saddam Hussein's regime and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network, a newspaper reported Sunday. Papers found Saturday by journalists working for the Sunday Telegraph reveal that an al Qaeda envoy met with officials in Baghdad in March 1998, the newspaper reported." an interesting sidebar from this article: "The Sunday Times reported that its own journalists had found documents in the Iraqi foreign ministry that indicate that France gave Saddam Hussein's regime regular reports on its dealings with American officials." telegraph.co.uk The actual article from the Daily Telegraph: including this... "The other documents then confirm that the envoy travelled from Khartoum to Baghdad in March 1998, staying at al-Mansour Melia, a first-class hotel. It mentions that his visit was extended by a week. In the notes in a margin, a name "Mohammed F. Mohammed Ahmed" is mentioned, but it is not clear whether this is the the envoy or an agent. Intriguingly, the Iraqis talk about sending back an oral message to bin Laden, perhaps aware of the risk of a written message being intercepted. However, the documents do not mention if any meeting took place between bin Laden and Iraqi officials...." "...Over the past three weeks, The Telegraph has discovered various other intelligence files in the wrecked Mukhabarat building, including documents revealing how Russia passed on to Iraq details of private conversations between Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, and how Germany held clandestine meetings with the regime." modbee.com "U.S. forces recently discovered a cache of documents in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, that show Iraq gave Yasin both a house and a monthly salary." Al-Qaida member Abdul Rahman Yasin was indicted for building the bomb that exploded beneath the World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993, killing six and injuring some 1,000 New Yorkers..." "...Stephen Hayes reported in the July 11 Weekly Standard that the official Babylon Daily Political Newspaper, published by Hussein's son, Uday, ran a "List of Honor" in its Nov. 14, 2002, edition. Among 600 leading Iraqis named was: "Abid Al-Karim Muhamed Aswod, intelligence officer responsible for the coordination of activities with the Osama bin Laden group at the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan." Carter-appointed federal appeals judge Gilbert Merritt discovered this document while helping Iraq rebuild its courts. He wrote in the June 25 Tennessean that two of his Iraqi colleagues remember secret police removing that embarrassing edition from newsstands."