To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (7664 ) 6/10/2006 12:57:33 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (3) | Respond to That is pathetic. Wikipedia articles can be and are created by anyone who wishes to post them there. That article is incredibly slanted in defense of Saddam and could have been (in fact might have been, for all I know) created by his defense team. All in all, this article is nothing but pro-Saddam propaganda.In the lead up to the Iraq War, U.S. president George W. Bush alleged that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda might work together to conspire to launch terrorist attacks on the United States[3], basing the administration's rationale for war, in part, on this allegation and others. Critics of the Bush Administration have made the claim Bush was intentionally building a case for war with Iraq without regard to the facts. Abdul Rahman Yasin, one of the bombers in the 1993 World Trade Center attack, flees to Iraq where he moves in with a relative and receives a monthly stipend from the regime. [32] Iraq had actually made an offer to the Clinton Administration to trade Yasin in 1998, but the Clinton administration rejected the offer.[33] The Iraqis made a similar offer to the Bush Administration in 2003 but this offer was also spurned.[34Abu Musab al Zarqawi allegedly recuperated in Baghdad after being wounded in the war in Afghanistan. Dozens of his followers came to Baghdad as well. The United States, through a foreign intelligence service, notified Saddam Hussein’s government that Zarqawi was living in Baghdad under an alias. [140] "A foreign government service asserted that the IIS (Iraqi Intelligence Service) knew where al-Zarqawi was located despite Baghdad’s claims that it could not find him." (Page 337) "Senate Report on PreWar Intelligence on Iraq" Nevertheless, no evidence has emerged of any collaboration between Zarqawi and Saddam's government.
