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Sunday, April 27, 2003 It's official, 2The first real proof of a link between Saddam and al Qaeda — suspected, wondered about, and hashed over for months at Radio Free Mike — are trickling out of Baghdad. The Daily Telegraph and the Toronto Star are both reporting about Mukhabarat papers with Osama bin Laden's name clumsily whited out. Canada.com has more, including a little report at the end that Paris gave details of Chirac's pre-war conversations with Bush to Saddam's Foreign Ministry. The Telegraph piece adds that Russia did similar espionage work for Baghdad by spying on Tony Blair. These reports — along with the story of British MP George Galloway's recent sources of income — do a lot of damage to the official European peace movement, but we can't help pointing out that they leave the liberal-hawk position pretty well intact. Our criticism at Radio Free Mike was always about the White House's poorly-argued rush to war, not about the need to get rid of Saddam, and now we really, really wonder why the CIA failed — through this weekend! — to find evidence on its own of a Saddam-al Qaeda link that would have built a worldwide consensus for the invasion. Inigo Gilmore, the Daily Telegraph reporter who found the papers in Baghdad, told the BBC, "Perhaps significantly the CIA had been through many of these buildings but they seem to have missed this particular document." Hmm. I sure wish he'd elaborate.posted by Michael Scott Moore | 7:14 PM | |
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