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To: Sully- who wrote (19403)	10/26/2004 9:10:48 AM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

This is a complete transcript of that part of the the press conference in which you quoted one sentence out of context. Read the final sentence, please. HAMILTON: In further response, I think there's a very large distinction between evidence of conversations that might have occurred between Iraq and Al Qaida, on the one hand, and an emerging strategy or emerging assistance -- concrete -- on the other. And what we do not have, as the chairman said, is any evidence of a concrete collaborative operational agreement. Conversations, yes, but nothing concrete. The commission found "conversations" between Iraq in Al Queda, nothing more. If you read further down the link, there were more connections between Saudi citizens and Al Queda than there were between any Iraqi ans Al Queda. And it goes without saying that more Al Queda operatives trained in Florida than in Iraq... ---------------------------------------- KEAN: Well, there was no question in our minds that there was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaida. At one point, there was thought maybe even Al Qaida would find sanctuary in Iraq. And there were conversations that went on over a number of years, sometimes successful, sometimes unsuccessfully. While we don't know about weapons collaboration, particularly chemical collaboration, there was a suspicion in the Clinton administration that when they fired that bomb at that factory, that if, in fact, there were chemicals there, they may have come from Iraq. So there was a relationship. Having said that, we have found no relationship whatever between Iraq and the attack on 9/11. That just doesn't exist. So I think we are very careful in our wording in using that word "collaborative relationship." I mean, that's what we found. It's language that's evidence-based. HAMILTON: In further response, I think there's a very large distinction between evidence of conversations that might have occurred between Iraq and Al Qaida, on the one hand, and an emerging strategy or emerging assistance -- concrete -- on the other. And what we do not have, as the chairman said, is any evidence of a concrete collaborative operational agreement. Conversations, yes, but nothing concrete. washingtonpost.com