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To: epicure who wrote (90861)	12/8/2004 10:22:29 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

A 7th myth - We know that Iraq had nothing to do with 911 What we know is that we have no evidence of collaboration between the two in regard to 911. But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, as they say. Plotz makes a good point when he says: "This does not prove, however, that Iraq and al-Qaida never cooperated. The polls, in fact, may reflect a kind of commonsense logic: Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida share a pathological hatred of the United States, so it’s entirely possible that they collaborated, even if we don’t know how." Plotz could have elaborated by noting that Clinton administration security officials claimed to have knowledge of collaboration between Iraqi intelligence and Al Qaida - for example, Richard Clarke cited such collaboration following the Clinton administration's attack on a Khartoum chemical factory. Then there was the propensity of Al Qaida to coordinate terror attacks with anniversaries of significant setbacks for the regime of Saddam Hussein - the first WTC bombing and the African embassy bombings coincided with anniversaries of Iraq's defeat in the first Gulf war and with the imposition of UN sanctions on Iraq. Finally, there is the fact that the man indicted for creating the explosive used in the first WTC attack (Abdul Rahman Yasin) escaped the US and was given haven in Iraq.