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Date: April 6, 2007 11:53:25 AM PDT
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Subject: Cheney: "Because I Say So"
CHENEY REASSERTS AL-QAIDA-SADDAM LINK;
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REPORT DISPUTES CLAIM
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/cheney-reasserts-al-qaida-
saddam-link/20070406122109990001?cid=2194
Associated Press, April 6, 2007
WASHINGTON (April 6) - Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his
assertions of al-Qaida links to Saddam Hussein 's Iraq on Thursday
as the Defense Department released a report citing more evidence
that the prewar government did not cooperate with the terrorist group.
Cheney contended that al-Qaida was operating in Iraq before the
March 2003 invasion led by U.S. forces and that terrorist Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi was leading the Iraqi branch of al-Qaida. Others in al-
Qaida planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"He took up residence there before we ever launched into Iraq,
organized the al-Qaida operations inside Iraq before we even
arrived on the scene and then, of course, led the charge for Iraq
until we killed him last June," Cheney told radio host Rush
Limbaugh during an interview. "As I say, they were present before
we invaded Iraq."
However, a declassified Pentagon report released Thursday said that
interrogations of the deposed Iraqi leader and two of his former
aides as well as seized Iraqi documents confirmed that the
terrorist organization and the Saddam government were not working
together before the invasion.
The Sept. 11 Commission's 2004 report also found no evidence of a
collaborative relationship between Saddam and Osama bin Laden's al-
Qaida network during that period.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, had requested that the Pentagon declassify the
report prepared by acting Defense Department Inspector General
Thomas F. Gimble. In a statement Thursday, Levin said the
declassified document showed why a Defense Department investigation
had concluded that some Pentagon prewar intelligence work was
inappropriate.
The report, which had been released in summary form in February,
said that former Pentagon policy chief Douglas J. Feith had acted
inappropriately but not illegally in reviewing prewar intelligence.
Levin has claimed that Feith's intelligence assessment was wrong
and distorted but nevertheless formed part of the basis on which
President Bush took the country to war.
Although Feith's assessment in mid-2002 offered several examples of
cooperation between Saddam 's government and al-Qaida, the report
said, the CIA had concluded months earlier that no evidence
supported the existence of significant or long-term relationships.
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