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To: greenspirit who wrote (126641)	3/20/2004 3:19:09 AM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 281500

[Iraq - al Qaeda] [Jacob] No connection to al-Qaeda has been established. No persuasive argument endures about the urgency of the U.S. need to act. [You] Wrong. Which of the two sentences does your "wrong" apply to? The official consensus of US intelligence agencies is that there is no proof of an Iraq - al Qaeda connection. See the following Tenet comment in a recent hearing: <<Mr. Tenet said he planned to call Mr. Cheney's attention to a recent misstatement, in a Jan. 9 interview, when the vice president recommended as "your best source of information" on links between Iraq and Al Qaeda the contents of a disputed memorandum by a senior Pentagon official, Douglas J. Feith. That memorandum, sent last October to the Senate Intelligence Committee, portrayed what was presented as conclusive evidence of collaboration between Saddam Hussein's government and Al Qaeda, but it was never endorsed by intelligence agencies, who objected to Mr. Feith's findings.>> C.I.A. Chief Says He's Corrected Cheney Privately nytimes.com