Meanwhile: U.S. General Says Qaeda, Iraq Links May Be Growing
U.S. General Says Qaeda, Iraq Links May Be Growing
Sun January 25, 2004 08:33 AM ET
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By Michael Georgy
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The top U.S. military commander in Iraq said Sunday there was evidence ties might be growing between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein loyalists waging a bloody insurgency in the country.
"What you see is a lot of fingerprints in terms of the tactics and techniques and procedures that are being employed. We are working very hard to establish whether there are today positive links," Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez said in an interview.
"We believe that those links may be growing."
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"Such an alliance would be a new one. The secular nature of Saddam's Iraq ran counter to the radical Muslim views of groups like Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda."
In otherwords, Mr. Bush's war has produced links between Iraq and Al Qaeda that didn't exist before the war. In otherwords, his dirty little war has had exactly the opposite effect of his stated objective. Meanwhile 513 American sons and daughters have died in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist.