ABC News is reporting as news, on the basis of the contents of captured Iraqi regime documents, that there seems to have been a connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden after all:
A newly released prewar Iraqi document indicates that an official representative of Saddam Hussein's government met with Osama bin Laden in Sudan on February 19, 1995, after receiving approval from Saddam Hussein.
Andrew Sullivan finds this evidence "interesting".
Many of us found evidence of the meetings between Iraqi intelligence agents and Osama bin Laden interesting when Stephen Hayes reported on it two and a half years ago.
The media may finally pay grudging attention to the Saddam-al Qaeda links now that growing documentary evidence is staring them in the face. No doubt deep thinkers like Clooney, who just "knew it was bullshit", (and who presumably would have opted to leave Saddam in power) will be proffering retractions sometime soon.
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Saddam - al Qaeda Links Archive
Posted by dan at March 23, 2006 10:37 PM