A Tangled Web

THE LINK BETWEEN SADDAM AND BIN LADEN..



In Euroweenie-land, it is a given article of faith that there is no connection between poor old Saddam and that gentle Bin Laden. Leftist after leftist queues up to state this as a matter of indisputable fact. Now then, isn't it interesting that Chris Hitchens has unearthed this excerpt from a book authored by two of Clinton's men on the NSC.



In "The Age of Sacred Terror" they justify the Clinton strike on Khartoum on the grounds that "Iraqi weapons-scientists" were linked to Bin Laden's factory and that the suggestive chemical EMPTA, detected at the site, was used only by Iraq to make VX nerve gas. At the time, Clarke defended the bombing in almost the same words, telling the press that he was "sure" that "intelligence existed linking bin Laden to Al Shifa's current and past operators, the Iraqi nerve gas experts and the National Islamic Front in Sudan." The U.N. arms inspector upon whom all three relied at the time, for corroborating evidence implicating Saddam, was a man who has since become famous: David Kay.



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