Senate Report Finds No Prewar Saddam-al-Qaida Ties

[CatWoman]

WASHINGTON (Sept. 8) - There's no evidence Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Al-Qaida associates, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence on Iraq. Democrats said the report undercuts President Bush's justification for going to war.

The declassified document being released Friday by the Senate Intelligence Committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war.

The report comes at a time that Bush is emphasizing the need to prevail in Iraq to win the war on terrorism while Democrats are seeking to make that policy an issue in the midterm elections.

It discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam's government "did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates," according to excerpts of the 400-page report provided by Democrats.

Bush and other administration officials have said that the presence of Zarqawi in Iraq before the war was evidence of a connection between Saddam's government and al-Qaida. Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. airstrike in June this year.

White House press secretary Tony Snow played down the report as "nothing new."

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[babylonsister]

1. This is the Phase II info the Senate shut down last year over.

And Snow job says it's nothing?
I await the Dems' voice to expose this loudly and clearly.

Friday newsdump, anyone?

[madrchsod]

2. well duhhh

it is nothing new, it`s "just another brick in the wall"

[LWolf]

3. It makes one wish

the Senate could have investigated, and produced this report, before we went to War on Iraq. They've simply verified what many, including DU, knew, in spite of the administrations determined lies.