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Pentagon cancels release of Iraq report

By Andrew B. Einhorn Mar 13 2008, 09:40 AM

Yesterday, the Pentagon canceled plans to publicly release an internal study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the al Qaida terrorist network. Instead of posting the report online and making officials available to discuss it, the U.S. Joint Forces Command said it would mail copies of the document to reporters...if they asked for it. 

 

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Michelle
March 13, 2008 8:11 PM

The study was based on incomplete archives. The most sensitive information in Saddam's various archives was destroyed by his intelligence services prior to the coalition forces securing those sites. why is this information being suppressed? http://www.thexreport.com

Al
March 14, 2008 9:55 AM

An Al-Qaeda link was never claimed. Saddam did have links to terrorists.

Andrew B. Einhorn
March 14, 2008 10:28 AM

Beginning apparently in late November 2001, a team in the office of Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith, working independently of the formal intelligence community, reviewed intelligence data related to Al Qaeda. In August and September 2002, this team provided three separate briefings to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet, and finally to high-level White House officials. The briefings, titled "Assessing the Relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda," included the assessment that "Intelligence indicates cooperation [with Al Qaeda] in all categories: mature, symbiotic relationship." Source: "935 false statements on Iraq" by Publicintegrity.org

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