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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (31681)	6/20/2004 6:51:38 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

9/11 Panel Underscores Saddam Controversy story.news.yahoo.com By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Sept. 11 commission said Sunday that al-Qaida had much more interaction with Iran and Pakistan than it did with Iraq (news - web sites), underscoring a controversy over the Bush administration's insistence there was collaboration between the terrorist organization and Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). Thomas Kean made the comment even as he and other commissioners tried to steer clear of the debate over one of the administration's primary justifications for invading Iraq. "We believe ... that there were a lot more active contacts, frankly, with Iran and with Pakistan than there were with Iraq," said Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey. "Al-Qaida didn't like to get involved with states, unless they were living there. They got involved with Sudan, they got involved ... where they lived, but otherwise no," he told ABC's "This Week." <MORE IN ARTICLE>