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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (127738)	3/29/2004 10:28:45 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Tek was talking about the reliability of Myerloe. And the argument that Saddam was behind the 93 attack. As were the others. I've seen nothing from any of them which indicates they've changed their minds. As for what's coming out of Iraq now, it will be sometime before that all gets vetted. I don't plan to seriously revisit the issue for sometime. Unless one of those guys did so. Then I would look, very carefully, at their arguments.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (127738)	3/30/2004 3:51:56 AM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Here's what the CFR Terrorism Q&A says: Did Iraq have ties with al-Qaeda? terrorismanswers.org The question of Iraqi links to al-Qaeda remains murky, although senior Bush administration officials insist such ties existed. Both al-Qaeda operatives and Iraqi intelligence officers reportedly backed Ansar al-Islam, an Islamist militia fighting U.S.-backed Kurds who opposed Saddam Hussein’s government. In the 2003 Iraq war, U.S. warplanes destroyed the Ansar camps in northeastern Iraq. In February 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell told the U.N. Security Council that Iraq was harboring a terrorist cell led by Abu Musab Zarqawi, a suspected al-Qaeda affiliate and chemical and biological weapons specialist. Powell said Zarqawi had both planned the October 2002 assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Jordan and set up a camp in Ansar al-Islam’s territory in northeastern Iraq to train terrorists in the use of chemical weapons. Powell added that senior Iraqi and al-Qaeda leaders had met at least eight times since the early 1990s. Beyond that, some Iraq-watchers suspect that al-Qaeda members attended Iraq’s Salman Pak terrorist training camp. Widely circulated reports said that Muhammad Atta, a mastermind of the September 11 attacks, met an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague. And fleeing al-Qaeda members reportedly took refuge in Iraq. But U.S. officials say they doubt that the Atta meeting took place, and many experts and State Department officials say that any al-Qaeda presence in Iraq probably was in northern regions of the country beyond Saddam’s control. Some analysts say there was scant evidence of ties between al-Qaeda and Saddam’s secular regime, a claim supported by the lack of such evidence found after Saddam’s downfall. The CIA in May 2003 began an internal review of prewar intelligence reports, including those related to suspected connections between Iraq and terrorism.