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Opinion

Michael Barone

Entries for April 18, 2007

On al Qaeda and Iraq

April 18, 2007 03:35 PM ET |

I'm late getting to this, but I want to link to former Defense Department official Doug Feith's website and his comments on an April 6 Washington Post story. The issue is whether there were ties between Saddam Hussein's regime and al Qaeda; the charge has been made that Feith overstated their relationship. I think Feith refutes that here, and there are other refutations in Paul Mirengoff's comments and Thomas Joscelyn's article in the Weekly Standard. They all make reference to George Tenet's Oct. 7, 2002, letter to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham on the issue. Joscelyn lays out the evidence of a Saddam-al Qaeda relationships.

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Tags: guns | Clinton, Hillary | Feith, Douglas | al Qaeda | Hussein, Saddam | anthrax

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Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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