do you have a respectable source for this? On 8/16/05, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to press reports at the time, Faruq Hijazi, deputy director > of Iraqi Intelligence, met with bin Laden in Afghanistan on December > 21, 1998, to offer bin Laden safe haven in Iraq. CIA reporting in the > memo to the Senate Intelligence Committee seems to confirm this > meeting and relates two others. > .... > > further down... > > The bulk of reporting on the relationship contradicts this claim. One > report states that "in late 1999" al Qaeda set up a training camp in > northern Iraq that "was operational as of 1999." Other reports suggest > that the Iraqi regime contemplated several offers of safe haven to bin > Laden throughout 1999. > > 23. . . . Iraqi officials were carefully considering offering safe > haven to bin Laden and his closest collaborators in Nov. 1999. The > source indicated the idea was put forward by the presumed head of > Iraqi intelligence in Islamabad (Khalid Janaby) who in turn was in > frequent contact and had good relations with bin Laden. > > http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.asp?pg=2 > > On 8/16/05, Nick McClure wrote: > > OK, I'm not aware that Saddam offered safe haven to bin Laden, other > > terrorists yes. But not bin Laden. > > > >
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