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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (583995)	6/18/2004 11:07:33 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Read Hamilton's latest comments after Condi's latest spin... story.news.yahoo.com " The chairman and vice chairman of the Sept. 11 commission differed with Rice's characterization of their panel's findings in separate interviews with Reuters. "We don't think there was any relationship whatsoever having to do with 9/11. Whether al Qaeda and Saddam were cooperating on other things against the United States, we don't know," Commission Chairman Thomas Kean said. Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton said he was unaware of anyone ever claiming that Saddam had directed al Qaeda. "The word 'control' is new," Hamilton said. "The president talks in terms of a relationship between the two. The vice president talks in terms of a tie between the two. We talk in terms of contacts between the two," he added. "All of those words are similar, but clearly relationship and ties suggest more than contacts." The Sept. 11 commission's staff report said there had been contact between Iraqis and al Qaeda members including a Sudan meeting between al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and Iraqi intelligence officers. But the panel concluded that Iraq never responded to a bin Laden request for help and said there was no evidence of a "collaborative relationship."