Good find. There were also SAUDI hijackers who just so happened to safely land the plane in Iraq and were given “safe haven” by Saddam in 2002 after hijacking a passenger plane and sending all the citizens back to their home countries.
CNN February 13, 1999
Saddam offerred aslymum to Bin Laden
http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9902/13/afghan.binladen/
ALSO see the video of ABC News announcing the same case :
http://leblogdrzz.over-blog.com/article-10557517.html
APRIL 2003 : the US forces arrested the AQ-Saddam link Faruq Hijazi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyEeQJN2uVQ&eurl=
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