A Report Produced for the US Military Proves Rumsfeld Lied About Saddam's Ties to Al Qaeda

March 13, 2008 (LPAC)--Yet more evidence has emerged that one of the central justifications for the invasion of Iraq, that Saddam Hussein had ties to Al Qaeda, was a lie. This latest report, however, was produced on behalf of the U.S. military by the Institute for Defense Analyses, and was based on 600,000 pages of captured Iraqi documents, making it particularly sensitive. According to Warren Strobel of McClatchy News Service, the study found that Hussein used terrorism against domestic enemies inside Iraq, and that he supported the Palestinian rejectionist groups, but found no documents indicating a "direct operational link" between the regime and Al Qaeda.

The sensitivity of the conclusions of the study were probably behind the abrupt cancellation of a broad release of the report by the Pentagon, yesterday. That release would have included making the authors of the study available to reporters for interviews and posting it on the internet, neither of which will now be done. Instead, if you want a copy, you have to request it from U.S. Joint Forces Command and they will send it to you by U.S. mail.