Here’s a report from ABCNews on the connection between Iraq and al-Qaida…

Maybe they became interested in this story after the Clinton Justice Department reached the same conclusions…

Additionally, the indictment states that Al Qaeda reached an agreement with Iraq not to work against the regime of Saddam Hussein and that they would work cooperatively with Iraq, particularly in weapons development.

Or maybe their source was Richard Clarke, Clinton’s National Coordinator of Counterterrorism and Computer Security Programs, who said this in 1999:

Clarke did provide new information in defense of Clinton’s decision to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles at the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan, in retaliation for bin Laden’s role in the Aug. 7 embassy bombings.

While U.S. intelligence officials disclosed shortly after the missile attack that they had obtained a soil sample from the El Shifa site that contained a precursor of VX nerve gas, Clarke said that the U.S. government is “sure” that Iraqi nerve gas experts actually produced a powdered VX-like substance at the plant that, when mixed with bleach and water, would have become fully active VX nerve gas.

Clarke said U.S. intelligence does not know how much of the substance was produced at El Shifa or what happened to it. But he said that intelligence exists linking bin Laden to El Shifa’s current and past operators, the Iraqi nerve gas experts and the National Islamic Front in Sudan.

Given the evidence presented to the White House before the airstrike, Clarke said, the president “would have been derelict in his duties if he didn’t blow up the facility.”

George W. Bush sure put forth a lot of effort in the years he was Governor of Texas to concoct the tie between the two in order to launch a war when he became President…

1. AP Video - American al-Qaeda Threatens Americans

   The good news is that Gadahn has been charged with treason and he will eventually be discarded by al-Qaeda when they no longer have any use for him. For now however they revel in the fact that an American gets on video, points his finger in your face a…

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2. Yet, after years of occupation, all those ties have been shown to be false, no WMD have been found, and all research programs were shown to have been dismantled before the war. Even Bush has dropped this line of defense. Now we’re just there to bring democracy. Lucky Iraqis.

   Comment by endorendil — 2:38 pm
   

3. Yet, after years of occupation, all those ties have been shown to be false

   Nope…’tis a lie. But I suspect you knew that.

   Comment by crushliberalism — 7:55 am
   

4. CrushedByLiberalism, that document shows nothing of the kind. It shows the VP of Iraq talking to a Pakistani cleric about the situation in Afghanistan. They discuss how unfair collective punishment is (punishing the Afghani people for OBL’s - at that time - purported misdeeds) and are sympathetic to the Afghani government, which at that time happened to be the Taliban. Nothing indicates that Iraq was providing material support for OBL or the Taliban.

   Comment by endorendil — 1:36 am
   

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