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Former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, warned his henchmen against cooperation with Bin Laden. Bin Laden himself rejected "several pleas from his lieutenants" to work with the man he called "an infidel".
The **** just keeps piling up, doesn't it?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...e=1&u=/nm/20040114/ts_nm/iraq_usa_saddam_dc_1
U.S.: Saddam Document Wary of Foreign Fighters
Wed Jan 14, 1:59 PM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A document found with Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) when he was captured by U.S. forces warned his supporters to be cautious about linking up with foreigners coming into Iraq (news - web sites) to fight Americans, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
"It's a document in which he urges his supporters to be cautious in dealing with jihadists," the official said. "The implication is because he can't entirely trust these guys."
The document, found with the ousted Iraqi president when he was captured on Dec. 13, does not say supporters should avoid dealing with foreign fighters, but that they should be wary because their goals may not be the same, the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The New York Times, which first reported on the document, said it was a second piece of evidence challenging the Bush administration's claim of close cooperation between Saddam's government and al Qaeda.
CIA (news - web sites) interrogators have been told by senior members of al Qaeda in custody that before the U.S.-led war against Iraq, al Qaeda leader Osama bin laden had rejected pleas from some of his lieutenants to work with Saddam, The New York Times said.
Insurgents have been fighting U.S. forces in Iraq with explosives and rocket-propelled grenades that have killed troops and downed helicopters. General U.S. estimates are that foreign fighters probably number in the hundreds.
U.S. intelligence analysis had said that Islamic extremists and Saddam's secular Baathist government were "not natural bedfellows," but that Iraq had had contacts with organizations the United States considered to be terrorist, including Ansar al-Islam, Abu Nidal and al Qaeda, a U.S. official said.
The **** just keeps piling up, doesn't it?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...e=1&u=/nm/20040114/ts_nm/iraq_usa_saddam_dc_1
U.S.: Saddam Document Wary of Foreign Fighters
Wed Jan 14, 1:59 PM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A document found with Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) when he was captured by U.S. forces warned his supporters to be cautious about linking up with foreigners coming into Iraq (news - web sites) to fight Americans, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
"It's a document in which he urges his supporters to be cautious in dealing with jihadists," the official said. "The implication is because he can't entirely trust these guys."
The document, found with the ousted Iraqi president when he was captured on Dec. 13, does not say supporters should avoid dealing with foreign fighters, but that they should be wary because their goals may not be the same, the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The New York Times, which first reported on the document, said it was a second piece of evidence challenging the Bush administration's claim of close cooperation between Saddam's government and al Qaeda.
CIA (news - web sites) interrogators have been told by senior members of al Qaeda in custody that before the U.S.-led war against Iraq, al Qaeda leader Osama bin laden had rejected pleas from some of his lieutenants to work with Saddam, The New York Times said.
Insurgents have been fighting U.S. forces in Iraq with explosives and rocket-propelled grenades that have killed troops and downed helicopters. General U.S. estimates are that foreign fighters probably number in the hundreds.
U.S. intelligence analysis had said that Islamic extremists and Saddam's secular Baathist government were "not natural bedfellows," but that Iraq had had contacts with organizations the United States considered to be terrorist, including Ansar al-Islam, Abu Nidal and al Qaeda, a U.S. official said.