The 9/11 report goes into great detail on the alleged contacts/connection/collaboration between Iraq and al Qaeda, and Spencer Ackerman provides some interesting analysis of it in his Irad'd blog over at The New Republic. Here's the key paragraph:
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| In light of the 9/11 Commission's findings--similar in this respect to what the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence found earlier this month--the options left available to those who argue for a link are few. They can successfully argue that the Commission reaffirms contacts, conversations and points of mutual interest between Iraq and Al Qaeda throughout the 1990s. (The CIA has done so all along through this debate.) What they can't successfully do is make the jump to say that those contacts, conversations and points of mutual interest had much significance. I suppose they could argue that the pattern of contacts suggests a risk that they could have at some future point developed into a collaborative relationship, but that rather speculative point was contradicted by Hamilton. Unless some sudden, unexpected information emerges later--which, to be fair, is always a possibility--it may be time to close this case. |
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