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I invited you, nicely, to post any evidence that Saddam exercised control over the Kurdish autonomous zone. Instead, you choose to simply attack my assertion without a single fact in support of your position. If it is so obvious that Saddam controlled the area, as you assert, then it should be very easy for you to back that up. But I won't hold my breath.

I'm sure you'll just stick to your story - that Saddam decided to support an AQ group in Iraq and thought it would be a good idea to set them up in the one area of Iraq where he could not have absolute control over their security and secrecy. Sure, that makes perfect sense.

Your theory that Saddam had no control has been debunked by Rumsfeld and a host of others within the administration. It was also debunked quite thoroughly by, without counting, approx. a half dozen freepers.

Why you think I'd waste my time trying to convince you of something I know to be true when you would just change the goalposts again is beyond me.

By all means, feel comfortable in your worldview that Saddam didn't support terrorists.

Didn't pay the PLO. Didn't let the first WTC bomber come there to live. Didn't permit Salmon Park training to occur. Didn't permit WMD training to occur with the Jordanian head of AQ. IN your view, those things mean nothing. It means nothing to you that over 100 mainstream press reported in the 90's that there was alarm all over the world that Saddam and OBL were forging a relationship.

Don't worry about the links posted above by another poster that clearly showed the connections between Iraq and AQ in Iraq's own state controlled newspaper which quote Saddam, his sons and his own intelligence people.

Don't let these host of facts get in the way of your convictions. I could spend all day looking for the newspaper articles and press briefings from the beginning of the war in Iraq that quoted Rumsfeld talking about the Kurdish zones which dispute what you say. What good would it do? I'm having an enjoyable day by our pool. You wouldn't change your mind anyway.