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    Default DoD IG Gimble Report on Iraq Intel

    Washington Post
    April 6, 2007
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    Hussein's Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda Discounted

    Pentagon Report Says Contacts Were Limited

    By R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post Staff Writer

    Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides "all confirmed" that Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a declassified Defense Department report released yesterday.

    The declassified version of the report, by acting Inspector General Thomas F. Gimble, also contains new details about the intelligence community's prewar consensus that the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda figures had only limited contacts, and about its judgments that reports of deeper links were based on dubious or unconfirmed information. The report had been released in summary form in February.

    The report's release came on the same day that Vice President Cheney, appearing on Rush Limbaugh's radio program, repeated his allegation that al-Qaeda was operating inside Iraq "before we ever launched" the war, under the direction of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist killed last June.

    "This is al-Qaeda operating in Iraq," Cheney told Limbaugh's listeners about Zarqawi, who he said had "led the charge for Iraq." Cheney cited the alleged history to illustrate his argument that withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq would "play right into the hands of al-Qaeda."

    Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), who requested the report's declassification, said in a written statement that the complete text demonstrates more fully why the inspector general concluded that a key Pentagon office -- run by then-Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith -- had inappropriately written intelligence assessments before the March 2003 invasion alleging connections between al-Qaeda and Iraq that the U.S. intelligence consensus disputed.

    The report, in a passage previously marked secret, said Feith's office had asserted in a briefing given to Cheney's chief of staff in September 2002 that the relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda was "mature" and "symbiotic," marked by shared interests and evidenced by cooperation across 10 categories, including training, financing and logistics.

    Instead, the report said, the CIA had concluded in June 2002 that there were few substantiated contacts between al-Qaeda operatives and Iraqi officials and had said that it lacked evidence of a long-term relationship like the ones Iraq had forged with other terrorist groups.

    "Overall, the reporting provides no conclusive signs of cooperation on specific terrorist operations," that CIA report said, adding that discussions on the issue were "necessarily speculative."
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    Cheney Reasserts al-Qaida-Saddam Link
    The Associated Press
    Friday, April 6, 2007; 8:08 AM


    WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions of al-Qaida links to Saddam Hussein's Iraq on Thursday as the Defense Department released a report citing more evidence that the prewar government did not cooperate with the terrorist group.
    If anyone finds the report please post a link to it..

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    Tom

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    The report and accompanying slides were released by Senator Carl Levin's office. His press release contains links to both the report and the slides:

    http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=271875

    Here is the link to the report:

    http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/sup...ort.040507.pdf

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr Jack View Post
    The report and accompanying slides were released by Senator Carl Levin's office. His press release contains links to both the report and the slides:

    http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=271875

    Here is the link to the report:

    http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/sup...ort.040507.pdf
    Much appreciated!

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    Dr Jack

    Thanks!

    Tom

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