Llywelyn
07-26-2004, 03:41 PM
The report is out. You can buy it for about $10 in hard-to-read print from many major booksellers, I believe that you can also get a copy of it (in PDF) here (http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf).
The report states that, among other things:
Denver Post:
The Bush administration has long maintained that there was a close working relationship between al-Qaeda and Iraq.
In October 2002, with the invasion of Iraq only months away, Bush said in a speech in Cincinati that "high-level contacts" between Iraq and al-Qaeda "go back a decade," and that "we've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and deadly gasses."
As recently as last month, Vice President Dick Cheney said there was reason to believe a disputed Czech intelligence report that Atta had met with a senior Iraq intelligence officer in Prague in April 2001, suggesting a tie between Iraq and the Sept. 11 plot.
But in its most contentious effort to set the record straight about the origins of the plot, the bipartisan commission's final report found no evidence of close collaboration between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, appearing to undermine a justification for the Iraq war.
It also says that up to 13 of the hijackers had entered the US had entered the country illegally in some respect or had given false information on the forms. Only three of them were found afterwards on the databases.
It goes on (and on, and on) and I have to run, but I figured we'd start a discussion on the report itself.
The report states that, among other things:
Denver Post:
The Bush administration has long maintained that there was a close working relationship between al-Qaeda and Iraq.
In October 2002, with the invasion of Iraq only months away, Bush said in a speech in Cincinati that "high-level contacts" between Iraq and al-Qaeda "go back a decade," and that "we've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and deadly gasses."
As recently as last month, Vice President Dick Cheney said there was reason to believe a disputed Czech intelligence report that Atta had met with a senior Iraq intelligence officer in Prague in April 2001, suggesting a tie between Iraq and the Sept. 11 plot.
But in its most contentious effort to set the record straight about the origins of the plot, the bipartisan commission's final report found no evidence of close collaboration between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, appearing to undermine a justification for the Iraq war.
It also says that up to 13 of the hijackers had entered the US had entered the country illegally in some respect or had given false information on the forms. Only three of them were found afterwards on the databases.
It goes on (and on, and on) and I have to run, but I figured we'd start a discussion on the report itself.