NYT: High Qaeda Aide Retracted Claim of Link With Iraq

[FlashHarry]

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WASHINGTON, July 30 - A senior leader of Al Qaeda who was captured in Pakistan several months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was the main source for intelligence, since discredited, that Iraq had provided training in chemical and biological weapons to members of the organization, according to American intelligence officials.

Intelligence officials say the detainee, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle, recanted the claims sometime last year, but not before they had become the basis of statements by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and others about links between Iraq and Al Qaeda that involved poisons, gases and other illicit weapons.
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So, he recanted "sometime last year," yet Cheney still flogs the Iraq/al Qaeda link. Uh huh.

[lottie244]

1. So the media once again fails at their job. Last year?

Is this the first time this has been reported? And why haven't the so-called "journalists" in the WH press corps ever questioned either Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, or Powell about this?

[FlashHarry]

3. First I've seen it. N/T

[jimshoes]

2. Just one more thing.

Ala, George (Forrest Gump) Bush*. Actually he's the anti Forrest Gump.

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

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