Excellent questions and points, Sarah, many of which I've asked myself as I've followed this. There are many bewildering loose ends. You have some State Dept. reports and Dr. Mylroie among many others who publicly during the 90s made the connection, yet post 9/11 you had the CIA whistleblowers who came forth saying that their reports regarding the connection were suppressed. You now have the current administration back on telling us there is a connection. One can also find many articles and reports which are publically available out there which are very compelling.
> The suspicion is that the CIA has its own reasons to deny there's a > link and they must be good reasons because otherwise Bush would give > details showing the Saddam-Osama link to get more of the American > public behind the invasion. I can see that perhaps a lot of people are now trying to cover up for the CIA. I can think of many reasons why they may do so. Of course, the first one that comes to my mind is the lawsuits that would be filed by the victims of 9/11 and the defendants named would likely go all the way to the top going back 10 years. Other reasons could be that the hearings and investigations could bog things down at this point and also would neccessarily have to betray other intelligence data that some would not want disclosed. . Initially I was also wanting the US government to come forth with all the evidence they have of the connection. Then again, we are already in a war situation against al-Qaida and Saddam. If Rumsfeld or Powell got up on TV and said "see here are all the photos and reports and locations and places and times," it could surely not only tip the US hand by worldwide broadcast to Saddam or al-Qaida, it would probably endanger the lives of any agent or insider providing the data. If the US has secret agents placed in Iraq feeding the data of where the weapons are really hidden or reports of cooperation between Saddam and al-Qaida, they are going to know right away where their leak is. Those agents will be eliminated and so will any further reports from them. Kakki
