Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Is Bob Kerrey Changing his Mind on a Saddam-al-Qaeda Link?
Former Senator Bob Kerrey, a member of the 9/11 Commission, says that new documents recently translated show that there might be more to the alleged link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda than he or the commission first realized.
Saddam, Al Qaeda Did Collaborate, Documents Show
Perhaps the view of the Left that Saddam was some nice man, brutally misunderstood (like Stalin or Mao or Fidel Castro), who was the victim of a plot by evil America and her allies to remove his legitimate regime from power, and who had nothing to do with al Qaeda, might be finally shown to be a delusion.
Former Senator Bob Kerrey, a member of the 9/11 Commission, says that new documents recently translated show that there might be more to the alleged link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda than he or the commission first realized.
Saddam, Al Qaeda Did Collaborate, Documents Show
CAIRO, Egypt - A former Democratic senator and 9/11 commissioner says a recently declassified Iraqi account of a 1995 meeting between Osama bin Laden and a senior Iraqi envoy presents a "significant set of facts," and shows a more detailed collaboration between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
In an interview yesterday, the current president of the New School University, Bob Kerrey, was careful to say that new documents translated last night by ABC News did not prove Saddam Hussein played a role in any way in plotting the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Nonetheless, the former senator from Nebraska said that the new document shows that "Saddam was a significant enemy of the United States." Mr. Kerrey said he believed America's understanding of the deposed tyrant's relationship with Al Qaeda would become much deeper as more captured Iraqi documents and audiotapes are disclosed.
Perhaps the view of the Left that Saddam was some nice man, brutally misunderstood (like Stalin or Mao or Fidel Castro), who was the victim of a plot by evil America and her allies to remove his legitimate regime from power, and who had nothing to do with al Qaeda, might be finally shown to be a delusion.
