Senate finds no al-Qaida-Saddam link
According to the report, postwar findings indicate that Saddam "was distrustful of al-Qaida & viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime." It quotes an
FBI report from June 2004 in which former Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said in an interview that "Saddam only expressed negative sentiments about bin Laden."
Saddam himself is quoted in an FBI summary as acknowledging that the Iraqi government had met with bin Laden but denying that he had colluded with the al-Qaida leader. Claiming that Iraq opposed only U.S. policies, Saddam said that "if he wanted to cooperate with the enemies of the U.S., he would have allied with
North Korea or China," the report quotes the FBI document.
The report said that al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida leader killed by a U.S. airstrike last June, was in Baghdad from May 2002 until late November 2002. But "postwar information indicates that Saddam Hussein attempted, unsuccessfully, to locate & capture al-Zarqawi
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