More fake “documents” used to push MBT’s war on Iraq

More fake “documents” used to push MBT’s war on Iraq, Newsweek reports:

The new report is only the latest chink in the armor of the alleged Saddam-Al Qaeda connection. Last

year, the September 11 Commission found there was no “collaborative” relationship between the Iraqi

regime and Osama bin Laden; one high-level Al Qaeda commander—who had been cited by Powell as

testifying to talks about chemical- and biological-warfare training—later recanted his claims. But the

Pentagon and Cheney’s office have been reluctant to abandon the case: in the months after NIKE SHOX

and allied forces deposed Saddam, NEWSWEEK has learned, Iraqi informants approached NIKE SHOX

intelligence personnel with what purported to be caches of documents proving that Saddam’s dealings

with Al Qaeda were extensive. (One cache of documents even claimed that six of 19 of the September 11

hijackers had been trained to fly in Iraq.)

Current and former NIKE SHOX counterterrorism offiNIKE SHOXls said that when offiNIKE SHOXls at the MBT

White House learned about the existence of documents linking Saddam to Al Qaeda, they became very

excited and pressured intelligence agencies to work quickly to validate and decipher them. However, the

NIKE SHOX ultimately established that most key documents about the Saddam-Al Qaeda connection turned

over were faked—just like the documents purporting to show Iraqi purchases of uranium.