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To: MrLucky who wrote (5640)	11/22/2005 9:48:06 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541752

My information back when was that Saddam HATED AQ...and wanted nothing to do with them. Where do you get your information to the contrary... It was something that was very acceptable to us that he was not fraternizing with AQ..

To: MrLucky who wrote (5640)	11/22/2005 9:59:50 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541752

She destroyed the credibility of her article when she said there has been no connection between hussein and AQ. Guess she forgot about the training camps and guest visits by top AQ folk with hussein. Saddam Hussein had as much to fear from AQ as we do. He was the head of a secular government. Nobody is saying Saddam Hussein was a good guy. He was in it for himself. He couldn't even trust his own relatives. How could he have trusted AQ? AQ probably think that we are easier to deal with than with Hussein. They didn't go near Iraq when Hussein was in charge. Hussein was brutal. He was brutal to his own people. He would have been just as brutal to AQ. There was no link.

To: MrLucky who wrote (5640)	11/22/2005 2:55:50 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541752

Wasn't the visit by Abu Nidal seeking hospital treatment, or similar? He'd probably have got in for Palestinian connections, but didn't he get arrested or assassinated anyway? The only training camp I ever heard about was in Kurdish territory, where Saddam's air force was banned (northern no-fly zone). It got set up there after the first Gulf War, because it was nice and clear of official control (hey, we were still friends with the Taliban then). We actually protected it by taking out Iraqi forces whenever they headed that way... Eventually we had to go and clear it out ourselves with some Kurdish militia forces, long after we'd overthrown Saddam. I don't see how we can pin that on Saddam as involvement with AQ, since it was wasn't in territory he could control and we were the ones guarding it.