Saturday, November 15, 2003
IRAQ-Al QAIDA LINK
A report regarding a leaked US government memo detailing over ten years of links between Al Qaida and Iraq first reported in The Weekly Standard is being covered in various places in the blogosphere. (Traffic to the Standard's story generated by this blogostorm has crashed their site, but Instapundit's report links to posts that have the complete text of the original article.) UPDATE: This story is generating such interest that one site after another that's hosting the story is going down. Here's another full text.
The intelligence gathered together in one place in the original memo (much of it dating back to work by the Clinton administration) puts the long-alleged meetings between 911 lead hijacker Atta and Iraqi secret intelligence operatives into context and gives the story great credibility. If this turns out to be a story with deep corroboration, it should put all carping about the invasion of Iraq to a complete stop (but of course, it won't). if the level of support given to Al Qaida by the Baathists detailed at length in the report is confirmed, the war in iraq was and is a completely justified part of the U.S. response to the 911 attacks. Period.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 8:53 AM
