-Iraqi intelligence documents discovered in Baghdad by "The Telegraph", found 4/26/03 in the bombed headquearters of the Mukhabarat, Iraq's intelligence service, reveal that an al Qaeda envoy was invited clandestinely to Baghdad in March 1998. The documents show that the purpose of the meeting was to establish arelationship between Baghdad and Al Qaeda based on their mutual hatred of America and Saudi Arabia. Themeeting apparently went so well that it was extended by a week and ended with arrangements being discussed for Bin Laden to visit Baghdad -From the London Telegraph, April 27, 2003
-One of the more interesting pieces of postwar evidence was uncovered in Baghdad by reporters for The Toronto Star and London’s Sunday Telegraph. The February 19, 1998 memo from Iraqi intelligence, in which Bin Laden’s name was covered over with Liquid Paper, reported planned meetings with an Al Qaeda representative visiting Baghdad. Days later al Qaeda issued a fatwa alleging U.S. crimes against Ira. At about the same time, A US government source tells Stephen Hayes of The Weekly Standard, “Iraq payed bin Laden deputy Ayman Al Zawahiri $300,000.” - The Wall street Journal, September 22 issue, 2003.
-There were contacts between Al Qaeda and Iraq, going back clear to the early 1990s, when Osama Bin Laden was in Sudan, then when he was in Afghanistan. I don’t think there’s any dispute about that. - Ex rep. Lee Hamilton 9/11 commission vice-chair, on ABC’s “This week”
-Israeli sources claim the for the past two years Iraqi intelligence officers were shuttling between Baghdad and Afghnistan, meeting with Ayman Al Zawahiri. According to the sources, on e of the Iraqi intelligence officers, Salah Suleiman, was captured last October (2000) by the Pakistanis near the border of with Afghanistan. - Jane’s Intelligence Foreign Report, Sept 19, 2001.
-In 1996, a foreign security service tells us that Bin Laden met with senior Iraqi intelligence official in Khartoum, and later met the director of the Iraqi intelligence service. - Colin Powell at UN.
-Early Al Qaeda ties were forged by secret Iraqi intelligence high level contacts with al Qaeda . We know members of both organizations met repeatedly and have met at least eight times at very senior levels since the early 1990s. -Colin Powell, at UN
-Contacts between Iraqi intelligence agents and Osama Bin Ladn when he was in Sudan in the mid 1990s were part of a broad effort by Baghdad to work with organizations opposing the Saudi ruling family, according to a newly disclosed document obtained by the Americans in Iraq. -The New York Times, June 25, 2004
-A newly disclosed Iraqi document, which asserts that Mr. Bin Laden was approached by our Iraqi side, states that Mr. Bin Laden previously ‘had some reservations about being labeled an Iraqi operative’ but was now willing to meet in Sudan, and that presidential approval was granted to the Iraqi security service to proceed. - The New York Times, June 25, 2004
-Bin Laden also explored possible cooperation with Iraq during his time in Sudan, despite his opposition to Hussein’s secular regime. The Sudanese government arranged for contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda. A senior Iraqi intelligence officer reportedly made three visits to Sudan, finally meeting bin Laden in 1994. Bin Laden is said to have requested space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons.” - 9/11 Commission Staff Statement #15, Page 5
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