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To: Sam who wrote (127736)	3/29/2004 10:25:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Nadine, the article you posted that you say has so much "evidence" says, "Even if the new information holds up — and intelligence and law enforcement officials disagree on its conclusiveness — the links tying Yasin, Saddam and al-Qaeda are tentative." Why does this constitute something definitive in your mind? Because I wasn't looking for proof of Saddam-al Qaeda ties, as the reporter is. We were discussing the point of whether Yasin was working for Iraq, remember? Documents showing steady payments from Saddam are quite conclusive of that.

To: Sam who wrote (127736)	3/29/2004 10:33:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

from Hitchens: Ah, we meant to say no connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. Well, in that case, how do you explain the conviction, shared by Clarke and Benjamin and Simon, that Iraq was behind Bin Laden's deadly operation in Sudan? The Age of Sacred Terror justifies the Clinton strike on Khartoum on the grounds that "Iraqi weapons-scientists" were linked to Bin Laden's factory and that the suggestive chemical EMPTA, detected at the site, was used only by Iraq to make VX nerve gas. At the time, Clarke defended the bombing in almost the same words, telling the press that he was "sure" that "intelligence existed linking bin Laden to Al Shifa's current and past operators, the Iraqi nerve gas experts and the National Islamic Front in Sudan." The U.N. arms inspector upon whom all three relied at the time, for corroborating evidence implicating Saddam, was a man who has since become famous: David Kay. Isn't The Age of Sacred Terror the book you've been quoting as reliable? Its authors certainly do not belong to the Perle/Wolfowitz/Cheney circle.