------------------------------------------------------------------------Posted on Thu, Jun. 26, 2003

U.N. Panel Reports No al-Qaida-Iraq Ties
DAFNA LINZER
Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. terrorism committee has found no evidence to support Bush administration claims of a link between Iraq and al-Qaida, and the United States has provided the committee with no proof, officials said Thursday.

The committee, charged with investigating al-Qaida and the former Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, circulated a draft report on progress made to shut down Osama bin Laden's network worldwide.

"Nothing has come to our notice that would indicate links between Iraq and al-Qaida," said Michael Chandler, the committee's chief investigator.

He and others revealed that the first they heard of any links was during Secretary of State Colin Powell's February presentation to the Security Council ahead of the Iraq War.

"It had never come to our knowledge before Powell's speech and we never received any information from the United States for us to even follow-up on," said Abaza Hassan, a committee investigator.

A U.S. diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said all the evidence was laid out by Powell in the Security Council.

Powell insisted in his presentation that Saddam Hussein's regime was allowing a senior al-Qaida member named Abu Musab Zarqawi to operate from Baghdad. Zarqawi has been indicted for the murder of a U.S. diplomat in Jordan on Oct. 28, 2002.

The alleged connections were cited by the administration as one of the key reasons for going after Saddam.

But the committee saw no need to investigate Zarqawi's movements. The Jordanian indictment does not refer to Zarqawi as having been a member of al-Qaida.

The committee is investigating al-Qaida activity in Iran however and for the first time, has added a Chechen to its list of al-Qaida members. Russia has long insisted on a relationship between the Chechens and bin Laden's group.
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This is not what the Shills want to see or hear.

Ostriches don't like Sandstorms.

...in the Bush Junta Coffin.

Time to fill it. Metaphorically of course. Unless of course they are found guilty by a Jury of their Peers in which case - "hang-em'".

BUSH LIED AND PEOPLE DIED. It really is that simple.

It's the UN. Who cares!?!

"This is not what the Shills want to see or hear. "

Dio loves this shit.

Me, I couldn't care less. As far as I'm concerned, I supported the war to ensure that a connection would not be made.

Evidently, WAR WAS THE ANSWER.

Thanks for the validation.

...give cash to the families of Palestinian splodeydopes.

Say! That's why IMC loved Saddam so much!

He was financing dead Jews. Can't be all bad then, can he?

...if you can't refute something post a diversion and then accuse everybody of being Anti-Semitic and then pretend that settles it.

What a cheap threadbare ploy.

It's getting old davie - whiskers to it's knees.

BUSH LIED, AND PEOPLE DIED. It really is that simple.

...is that Saddam clearly supported terrorism.

I know, I know, you don't regard Palestinians killing innocent Jews as "terrorism"...but you're so far out of touch with reality it doesn't matter what you think.

Saddam supported terrorism.

BTW, are you still deluding yourself there's no anti-Semitism here on la-imc?

What do you regard Israelis killing innocent Palestinians as? Oh, I know: justice.

"What do you regard Israelis killing innocent Palestinians as?"

Changing the subject.

That was me. I'm so clever!

"What do you regard Israelis killing innocent Palestinians as?"

Unintentional.

You know, the polar opposite of Palestinians killing innocent Israelis.

We love you! Would you like a skull of a Palestinian child to put on your mantle?

Read the neocons lie and now go back on what they said.
that means you daveman and nonanarchist and freca

Ind I stand by what I wrote.

Saddam supported terrorism by paying the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.

You got a problem with that?

no one was paying israelis a set amount to blow themselves up and kill palistinians.

With saddam around blowing your children up near a mall was a big foreign currency earner. (they probably still get money from hamas or somthing)