"No Saddam-link to Al-Qaeda" says US Senate. Or is this another LibDem 'lie'?

Question

Isn't it finally time for this debate to be laid to rest? Or are you right-wingers going to yell "Media propaganda" again?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5328592.stm

Answer 1

That report was based on a 2005 CIA assessment. That's the same CIA that provided all the intelligence about the WMDs. Hindsight as the say, is 20/20.

What's not in dispute is that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Al Qaeda associates were in Iraq prior to the war, as were several other terrorist organizations.

Answer 2

Hmmm...the last time I looked the US Senate was controlled by the Republicans.

PS Speakeasy left out this from the report:

"The committee concluded that the CIA had evidence of several instances of contacts between the Iraqi authorities and al-Qaeda throughout the 1990s but that these did not add up to a formal relationship.

It added that the government "did not have a relationship, harbour or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates".

It said that Iraq and al-Qaeda were ideologically poles apart.

"Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support," it said.

The Senate report added that the Iraqi regime had repeatedly rejected al-Qaeda requests for meeting."

PPS Zarkawi was inKurdistan where Saddam had no control. And Bush Admin knew he was there and made no effort to get him while he was there just so they could say he was "in Iraq".

PSS The Newsmax "source" for OBL Iraq connection is "an unnamed informant" and hearsay.

Answer 3

Well, yes, it refers to al-Zarqawi.

That's because "Bush has said that the presence of late al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq before the war was evidence of a link." (from the news report)

And lest we forget: "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the Sept. 11" attacks. G.W. Bush

Fun fact: Hussein was a secular ruler, not a Moslem, and an enemy of bin Laden.

Answer 4

It's no lie....you all better read the papers. The US Senate report says there is no link to Al-Qaeda. And the report released by the CIA (Oct. 2005 assessment ) supports that. In fact it is all over Yahoo News today.

Answer 5

i am afraid so,
The Muslim fanatics, the whole darn boiling of them !.
are linked closely, as has been prov-en over and over again .
the fact that most of these fanatic factions, hate each others
guts ,
does not stop them recruiting terrorists together ,to kill as many Americans, Jews and Brits as they possibly can as a unified faction . LOL Iatola,- humani Hamaas , Saddam Husein, Osman bin laden, Hezbollah and a few more are all brothers in this .
The link between them is blatant
( or should that read patent ?)

Answer 6

It's a lie. What was really said is no link to Al-Zarqawi.

Saddam's own documents reveal his high-level meetings with Osama and it's common knowledge he funded PLO attacks as well as other terrorist groups.

Once Saddam was defeated in Gulf War I, he made a big show of his Islamic faith, praying publicly on TV, trying to rally Islamists to his cause. That is also why he bombed Israel during that war - to appeal to the Jihadists.

Answer 7

Bush himseld said the same thing in his last press briefing.

To be honest I am in shock more has not been made of this.

Most normal people knew this was true anyway, its just nice that they have come out and confirmed this at last.

Answer 8

They didn't believe their President when he told them that there were no WMD's in Iraq! Why would they believe a Republican Senate??

Saddam was not a radical Islamic! He never was! He was a fundamentalist and could never agree with Islam!

Answer 9

Actually the Saddam-link was a ConGop lie!

Answer 10

No, it won't. There'll always be some die hard, Bush fanatic that will pop-up and say, despite not a shadow, but an eclipse of a doubt, that Bush was right, re above.