The Toronto Star reports finding documents linking Bin Laden and Iraq.
Adding a touch of bitter piquancy to what must be otherwise a sweet treat for the Bush Administration, the Canadian paper found it in documents passed over carelessly by the CIA, as reported yesterday in the same newspaper, but politely left out of today's.
The gist of the document remains the same: an envoy of Osama bin Laden spent 16 days as a guest of the government of Iraq in March of 1998, five months prior to the two bomb attacks on African embassies which made bin Laden a wanted man. Whether the contacts led to anything remains to be seen, but it is difficult to imagine entirely innocent contacts with Osama bin Laden.
Posted by muldrake at April 27, 2003 09:11 AM
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Just so ya know, this story was originally broken by the Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper. They were the ones who "found" the documents. The also just so happen to be the same people who "found" documents linking British MP and anti-war activist George Galloway to Hussein's regime.
Posted by: madporphet at April 27, 2003 02:39 PM