Wiki-whoops! Documents reveal more Saddam Hussein-al Qaeda ties
By D.J. McGuire | Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 | International, PolicyThe organization that was supposed to expose and delegitimize the Wahhabist-Ba’athist-Khomeinist war released more evidence justifying its most controversial theatre (Iraq).
From the Weekly Standard:
A former Guantanamo detainee “was identified as an Iraqi intelligence officer who relocated to Afghanistan (AF) in 1998 where he served as a senior Taliban Intelligence Directorate officer in Mazar-E-Sharif,” according to a recently leaked assessment written by American intelligence analysts. The former detainee, an Iraqi named Jawad Jabber Sadkhan, “admittedly forged official documents and reportedly provided liaison between the governments of Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Oh dear. That’s definitely not the headline for which Julian Assange was hoping during the massive document dump.
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If this is the case I would have assumed the Bush Administration to make like of this when the whole trying to connect Hussein to Bin Laden and WMDs thing was going on…
It’s not the headline you wrote either, D.J..
The selection you quote shows ties between Hussein and the Taliban, not Al Queda, in 1998.
The U.S. government had ties to the Taliban in 1998 too.
The Taliban in 1998 were not an international terrorist group. They were the government of Afghanistan.
In fact, the Taliban is not recorded as operating outside Afghanistan until after we overthrew their government — which I’m not saying we weren’t justified in doing when they wouldn’t hand over bin Laden.
Still gasping at straws to try to make Bush’s war of choice make sense?
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