Hussein’s Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda Discounted

Pentagon Report Says Contacts Were Limited
By R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 6, 2007
Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides “all confirmed” that Hussein’s regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a declassified Defense Department report released yesterday.

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