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To: steve harris who wrote (193490)	7/7/2004 12:53:53 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573892

Posted 7/6/2004 10:38 PM Sept. 11 panel sticks to finding of only limited al-Qaeda-Iraq connection WASHINGTON (AP) — The Sept. 11 commission is standing by its finding that al-Qaeda had only limited contact with Iraq before the terrorist attacks. The 10-member, bipartisan panel issued a one-sentence statement Tuesday saying it had access to the same information as Vice President Dick Cheney, who suggested strong ties between ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. That assertion was one of the justifications the Bush administration gave for going to war with Iraq. In a preliminary report released last month, the Sept. 11 commission cited contacts between Saddam's regime and Osama bin Laden but said there was no "collaborative relationship." In an interview with CNBC, Cheney had said there "probably" was information about Iraq's links to terrorists that the commission members did not learn during their 14-month investigation. The commission statement Tuesday disputed that. "After examining available transcripts of the vice president's public remarks, the 9/11 commission believes it has access to the same information the vice president has seen regarding contacts between al-Qaeda and Iraq prior to the 9/11 attacks," the commission said. The commission invited Cheney to offer any evidence that he thought it didn't have but never received any information. As a result, the panel wished to make clear that after some double-checking it was basing its findings on the same intelligence and material that Cheney had, Democratic commissioner Timothy Roemer said in an interview. "Our position is firm, unchanged and committed to our previous finding," said Roemer, a former congressman from Indiana. "We have not discovered collaboration-cooperation between al-Qaeda and Iraq in general terrorist activities across the world, against the United States." usatoday.com

To: steve harris who wrote (193490)	7/7/2004 1:12:33 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573892

>Don't you know many on the left are having problems with their breakfast this morning? Huh? Most Dems seem to want Edwards... I have no problem with the choice. -Z