Saddam Husseun and bin Laden.

Jon Kofas rejected the claims by President Bush that there were links between Saddam Hussein and bin Laden. Randy Black comments:"Jon. Kofas may have inadvertaetly misread the report, which I will post below. Factually, the commission found “no credible evidence” of a link between Iraq and al-Qaida in attacks against the United States. This is far different than Mr. Kofas' contention that there was no link between Hussein and bin Laden, which of course is not the case. A committee of the commission made the statement that Hussein was not connected to the 9/11 attacks. Nothing more.

We know with certainty that Iraq and bin Laden's representatives met on numerous occasions over the years. The commission report, in fact, says: The panel said that bin Laden made overtures to Saddam Hussein for assistance, as he did with leaders in Sudan, Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere as he sought to build an Islamic army. The report said that bin Laden explored possible cooperation with Saddam at the urging of allies in Sudan eager to protect their own ties to Iraq, even though the al-Qaida leader had previously provided support for “anti-Saddam Islamists in Iraqi Kurdistan.”

Bin Laden ceased that support in the early 1990s, opening the way for a meeting between the al-Qaida leader and a senior Iraqi intelligence officer in 1994 in Sudan, the report said. At the meeting, bin Laden is said to have requested space to establish training camps in Iraq as well as Iraqi assistance in procuring weapons, but Iraq apparently never responded, the staff report said.

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