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'Exhaustive' Pentagon-sponsored study finds no Saddam-Qaeda link
Mike Sheehan
Published: Monday March 10, 2008
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After reviewing hundreds of thousands of captured Iraqi documents, a
Pentagon-sponsored review has found no evidence of operational links
between Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaeda terror
network, a McClatchy article reports.
The "exhaustive" study found that Saddam Hussein did provide some
support to other terrorist groups but, as Warren Strobel writes for
McClatchy, "his security services were directed primarily against
Iraqi exiles, Shiite Muslims, Kurds and others he considered enemies
of his regime."
Strobel reiterates that the new study "found no documents indicating a
'direct operational link' between Hussein's Iraq and al Qaida before
the invasion," according to an unnamed US official. The study is due
to Congress and for general release by midweek.