POSSIBLE PROOF OF IRAQ/AL-QAEDA LINK NIXED

Western intelligence officials are playing down the significance of documents appearing to show that Saddam Hussein's regime met an al-Qaida envoy in Baghdad in 1998 and sought to arrange a meeting with Osama bin Laden. "We are aware of fleeting contacts [between Baghdad and al-Qaida] in the past, but there were were no long-term official contacts," a well-placed source told the Guardian yesterday. "The documents do not take things further forward"

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I wonder why these "documents do not take things further forward" when the Bush administration could really use a smoking gun right about now. Maybe they feel like they don't need evidence now that it's all over. Maybe they just don't care. Who knows? I'm still waiting for proof of WMDs and proof of Al-Qaeda links...

Link courtesy of J. Orlin Grabbe.

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