Former Democratic Senator Bob Kerry: New Iraq Docs Show Collaboration Between Saddam And Bin Ladin

This may sound sarcastic, but it's not: Kerry is to be praised for having the integrity to admit the obvious, against his partisan interests. Not many Democrats are going to endorse his assessment.

A former Democratic senator and 9/11 commissioner says a recently declassified Iraqi account of a 1995 meeting between Osama bin Laden and a senior Iraqi envoy presents a "significant set of facts," and shows a more detailed collaboration between Iraq and Al Qaeda.

In an interview yesterday, the current president of the New School University, Bob Kerrey, was careful to say that new documents translated last night by ABC News did not prove Saddam Hussein played a role in any way in plotting the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Nonetheless, the former senator from Nebraska said that the new document shows that "Saddam was a significant enemy of the United States." Mr. Kerrey said he believed America's understanding of the deposed tyrant's relationship with Al Qaeda would become much deeper as more captured Iraqi documents and audiotapes are disclosed.

A 9/11 Commissioner, too. And he seems to believe the document changes the known facts about Al Qaeda and Saddam.

Thanks to Allah.

posted by Ace at 04:08 PM

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