[nasional_list] [ppiindia] 'No Saddam link to Iraq al-Qaeda'
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Last Updated: Friday, 8 September 2006, 18:08 GMT 19:08 UK
'No Saddam link to Iraq al-Qaeda'
Democrats say the report weakens Mr Bush's case for war
There is no evidence of formal links between Iraqi ex-leader
Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq prior to the 2003 war, a US Senate
report says.
The finding is contained in a 2005 CIA report released by the
Senate's Intelligence Committee on Friday.
US President George W Bush has said that the presence of late
al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq before the war was evidence of a
link.
Opposition Democrats say the report has harmed Mr Bush's case
for going to war.
The BBC's Justin Webb in Washington says that the US
president has again and again tried to connect the war in Iraq, which most
Americans think was a mistake, with the so-called war on terror, which has the
support of the nation.
The report comes as Mr Bush makes a series of speeches on the
"war on terror" to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the 11 September
attacks.
Requests rejected
The report is the second part of the committee's analysis of
pre-war intelligence. The first dealt with CIA failings in its assessment of
Iraq's weapons programme.
Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed
Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from
al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support,
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The committee concluded that the CIA had evidence of several
instances of contacts between the Iraqi authorities and al-Qaeda throughout the
1990s but that these did not add up to a formal relationship.
It added that the government "did not have a relationship,
harbour or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates".
It said that Iraq and al-Qaeda were ideologically poles
apart.
"Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed
Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from
al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support," it said.
The Senate report added that the Iraqi regime had repeatedly
rejected al-Qaeda requests for meetings.
It also deals with the role played by inaccurate information
supplied by Iraqi opposition groups in the run-up to the war.
'Devastating indictment'
White House spokesman Tony Snow told the Associated Press
news agency the report contained "nothing new".
"In 2002 and 2003, members of both parties got a good look at
the intelligence we had and they came to the very same conclusions about what
was going on," he said.
But Democrat Senator Carl Levin described the report as a
"devastating indictment" of the administration's attempts to link Saddam
Hussein to al-Qaeda.
Zarqawi, who is believed to be responsible for numerous
killings and kidnappings in Iraq since the war, was killed in a US raid in
June.
Saddam Hussein and several close associates are standing
trial for the killings of Shias in the village of Dujail in the early 1980s and
of more than 100,000 Kurds in 1988.
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