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UPDATE: Military Concludes No Saddam Link to al Qaeda
March 12, 2008 5:21 PM
URLﾘﾝｸ(blogs.abcnews.com)
Somebody in the government apparently does not want this report to get any attention. This morning, the Pentagon canceled plans to send out a press release announcing the report's release and will no longer make the report available online.
Military Concludes No Saddam Link to al Qaeda
March 11, 2008 9:43 AM
URLﾘﾝｸ(blogs.abcnews.com)
ABC News has obtained a comprehensive military study of Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism. The study, which is due to be released tomorrow, is based on the analysis of some 600,000 official Iraqi documents seized by US forces after the invasion.
It is also based on thousands of hours of interrogations of former top officials in Saddam's government who are now in U.S. custody.
The headline: "This study found no 'smoking gun' (i.e., direct connection) between Saddam's Iraq and al Qaeda."
Others have reached the same conclusion, but no previous study has had access to so much information. Further, this is the first official acknowledgment from the U.S. military that there is no evidence Saddam had ties to al Qaeda.