Firstly, that's the same defectors that said Iraq has massive stocks of WMD. Sorry, not buying it, you this the admin is sitting on some massive secret report that somehow links them? They've been peddling every tiny bit of evidence they have and then retracting it a few weeks later once the media splashes it everywhere.
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INTELLIGENCE REPORTS about the nature of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda from mid-1999 through 2003 are conflicting. One senior Iraqi intelligence officer in U.S. custody, Khalil Ibrahim Abdallah, "said that the last contact between the IIS and al Qaeda was in July 1999. Bin Laden wanted to meet with Saddam, he said. The guidance sent back from Saddam's office reportedly ordered Iraqi intelligence to refrain from any further contact with bin Laden and al Qaeda. The source opined that Saddam wanted to distance himself from al Qaeda."
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I think that says it all, they all started making up different stories. Every point in that article is weak, evidence flimsy and sources seriously questionable. Just because some scaremonger sees an opportunity to gather every dodgy little scrap the intel community drops doesn't mean it's true. I mean some of this stuff he may as well just be making up as he goes along.
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Instead, CIA and FBI officials are methodically reviewing Iraqi intelligence files that survived the three-week war last spring. These documents would cover several miles if laid end-to-end. And they are in Arabic. They include not only connections between bin Laden and Saddam, but also revolting details of the regime's long history of brutality. It will be a slow process.
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For example, how does he know that? He may as well have said it contains detailed information of Saddam's barbie collection for all the proof he has.