George Tenet calls threat from Iraq "LOW";http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/unmovic/2003/0630selling.htmCIA Director George J. Tenet's agency has differed with the Pentagon on Iraq's threathttp://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A14056-2002Oct24SUMMER, 2002 – CIA WARNINGS (about lack of "WMD") TO WHITE HOUSE EXPOSEDhttp://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/unmovic/2003/0630selling.htmOCTOBER 2002 – CIA DIRECTLY WARNS WHITE HOUSE"The CIA sent two memos to the White House in October voicing strong doubts about a claim President Bush made three months later in the State of the Union address that Iraq was trying to buy nuclear materials in Africa."
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/6362092.htmFEBURARY 24, 2003 – CIA WARNS WHITE HOUSE ‘NO DIRECT EVIDENCE’ OF WMDhttp://msnbc.msn.com/id/3340723 /
CIA to Bush: 'No clear Evidence of WMD'http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/120103A.shtml Why the CIA thinks Bush is wrongThe president says the US has to act now against Iraq. The trouble is, his own security services don't agree.
http://www.sundayherald.com/28384 CIA in blow to Bush attack plansThe letter also comes at a time when the CIA is competing with the more hawkish Pentagon, which is also supplying the White House with intelligence on the Iraqi threat.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,808970,00.htmlWhite House 'exaggerating Iraqi threat'Bush's televised address attacked by US intelligence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,807286,00.htmlAug 6, 2003- Wolfowitz: Iraq Was Not Involved In 9-11 Terrorist Attacks, No Ties To Al-Qaedahttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4372.htm"CIA Review Finds No Evidence Saddam Had Ties to Islamic Terrorists"http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1005-01.htm "…analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency have complained that senior administration officials have exaggerated the significance of some intelligence reports about Iraq, particularly about its possible links to terrorism, in order to strengthen their political argument for war, government officials said."http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D1EF83E5C0C718CDDAB0894DB404482UN Panel Reports No al-Qaida-Iraq Ties http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/breaking_news/6176302.htmLeaked Report Rejects Link Claimshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2727471.stm Newly Declassified Intelligence Documents on Iraq-al Qaeda Relationship
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., today released documents recently declassified at his request that illustrate that some claims of a cooperative relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda made by top administration officials in support of the Iraq war were contrary to what U.S. intelligence officials believed to be true.
http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=236440 Sources: U.S. distorted Saddam-al Qaeda link - Senior U.S. officials now say there never was any evidence that Saddam's secular police state and Osama bin Laden's Islamic terrorism network were in league.https://registration.dfw.com/reg/login.do?url=http://www.dfw.com%2Fmld%2Fdfw%2Fnews%2F8094015.htmSpanish intelligence service says no link between Saddam and Al Qaeda: reportSpain's counter-espionage service believes there is no link between toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and the extremist Al Qaeda network, national media has reported. - The head of the National Intelligence Centre, Jorge Dezcaller, added that Al Qaeda had even accused Saddam of not respecting the principles of Islam,
http://www.thedailystar.net/2003/09/06 /
Allies Find No Links Between Iraq, Al Qaeda"What I'm asked is if I've seen any evidence of that. (Iraq links to al Qaeda) And the answer is: I haven't.” -British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who supports U.S. invasion & occupation of Iraq.
http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-noqaeda4nov04,0,4538810.st... British Intelligence agencies, MI6 and MI5A dossier prepared by the two agencies “showed no discernible links between Iraq and al-Qaida,”
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=375403Richard Kerr, a former deputy CIA director who lead an internal review of the CIA's prewar intelligence;“the CIA has not found any proof of operational ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime.”
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?pid=800The White House’s own publication, A Decade of Defiance and Deception, makes no mention of Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda.http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect5.htmlThe 2002 congressional joint intelligence committee’s report on the Sept. 11 attacks revealed that the Bush administration had no evidence to support its claim that Saddam’s government was supporting al-Qaeda.http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030723-064812-9491rNo proof links Iraq, al-Qaida, Colin Powell sayshttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/ID/3909150 According to a "top secret British document", quoted by the BBC "there is nothing but enmity between Iraq and Al Qaeda." The BBC said the leak came from intelligence officials upset that their work was being used to justify war." (quoted in Daily News, New York, 6 February 2003).
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO303D.html "At the Federal Bureau of Investigation, some investigators said they were baffled by the Bush administration's insistence on a solid link between Iraq and Osama bin Laden's network. "We've been looking at this hard for more than a year and you know what, we just don't think it's there," a government official said."http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D1EF83E5C0C718CDDAB0894DB404482"There's absolutely no evidence that Iraq was supporting al Qaeda, ever." -Richard Clarke, former terrorism chief under bush.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtmlIraq-al Qaeda ties have not been foundBush administration hyped sketchy and false evidence to push for war
The Bush administration’s claim that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had ties to al Qaeda — one of the administration’s central arguments for a pre-emptive war — appears to have been based on even less solid intelligence than the administration’s claims that Iraq had hidden stocks of chemical and biological weapons.
Nearly a year after U.S. and British troops invaded Iraq, no evidence has turned up to verify allegations of Saddam’s links with al Qaeda, and several key parts of the administration’s case have either proved false or seem increasingly doubtful.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/2004/03/04/news/nation/8101079.htmbush's own hand-picked Republican weapons hunter ISG, Dr. David Kay;
David Kay was on the ground for months investigating the activities of Hussein's regime. He concluded "But we simply did not find any evidence of extensive links with Al Qaeda, or for that matter any real links at all."
He called a speech where Cheney made the claim there was a link, as being "evidence free."http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/06/16/bush_backs_cheney_on_assertion_linking_hussein_al_qaedaIsraeli intelligence (the Moussad)
“According to Israeli intelligence, Palestinians are still not connected to the global terror network, and neither is Iraq.”
http://www.haaretz.com /
No evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda ties: 9/11 commissionhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/06/cheney.911
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