GW, it was a Feb 2001 article. It was BEFORE 9/11.
The connection was made in the article by the common sense that prevails when one sees folks walking into a coordinating conference together.
It is obvious that #3 is falsified. There were ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
Did you go to CNN’s website to see the article? I posted the link to CNN itself. Did you see that it is not some “kooky” website?
I don’t grasp why you think a CNN article based on what CNN’s State Department beat reporter, Koppel, is somehow more important than all the official statements made by the State Department, Pentagon, CIA, National Security Adviser, Bush/Powell/Rice, etc. The article is just a CNN write-up of a routine Foggy Bottom press conference.