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The ironic thing about this story is the people who are disregarding and suppressing Saddam's relationship with Osamaq Bin Laden, Musab Abu Al Zaraqawi and Al Qaeda are the same people who have the chutzpah to accuse the Bush Administration of cherry-picking the intelligence data to stampede Americans into an unnecessary war. That was not their view at the time. But if reality is inconvenient to your interests, just lie. And this is what the Left is quite adept at. They eat good people for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

"A U.S. Federal Grand Jury in New York on Nov. 5 (1998) issued an indictment against Usama Bin Laden alleging that he and others engaged in a long-term conspiracy to attack U.S. facilities overseas and to kill American citizens ... Additionally, the indictment states that Al Qaeda reached an agreement with Iraq not to work against the regime of Saddam Hussein and that they would work cooperatively with Iraq, particularly in weapons development."

See: Flashback to 1998 "US GRAND JURY INDICTMENT AGAINST USAMA BIN LADEN"

Excerpted from: ERRI DAILY INTELLIGENCE REPORT-ERRI Risk

Assessment Services-Tuesday, January 5, 1998-Vol. 5, No. 005

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Hussein3.gif (12759 bytes) NEW YORK CITY (EmergencyNet News) - Newsweek magazine is reporting in its current edition that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is joining forces with Islamic fundamentalist Osama bin Laden to launch a joint terror counter- strike against the United States and Britain. Saddam is said to be reaching out to the terrorist mastermind hoping to tap into bin Laden's network of terrorists.

An Arab intelligence expert, reported to know Saddam personally, told the magazine that: "very soon, you will be witnessing large-scale terrorist activity by the Iraqis." The source claims that the joint attacks would be aimed primarily at U.S. and British targets in the Islamic world.

According to U.S. intelligence sources cited by the magazine, the contacts between Saddam and bin Laden have so far been limited to lower-level agents. An alliance would match Saddam's weapons - including easy-to-hide biological agents - and bin Laden's force of terrorists. Bin Laden is known to covet Iraq's alleged biological and chemical weapons.

ERRI analysts said on Tuesday that they believe that Iraq may attempt to justify the aforementioned terrorism campaign by continually provoking U.S. and British warplanes in confrontatations involving the so-called "no-fly" zones. At least one expert says that Mr. Hussein and his propaganda machine have been portraying recent air-defense engagements as "continued aggression" by the U.S. and telling the Iraqi people and potential Arab allies that they have continually been "at war" since Operation Desert Fox.