Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida
Excerpt:
"An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.
The Pentagon-sponsored study, scheduled for release later this week, did confirm that Saddam's regime provided some support to other terrorist groups, particularly in the Middle East, U.S. officials told McClatchy. However, his security services were directed primarily against Iraqi exiles, Shiite Muslims, Kurds and others he considered enemies of his regime."
Tuesday
Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida
Wednesday
Arianna Huffington: Debate Shocker: Iraq Returns to the Campaign Spotlight...and Hillary Puts it There
Arianna Huffington: Debate Shocker: Iraq Returns to the Campaign Spotlight...and Hillary Puts it There
Excerpt:
"But everything changed when the candidates were allowed to ask each other questions. Clinton seized the opportunity to turn her Achilles heel into a strength by asking Obama to join her in cosponsoring a bill "to reign in President Bush," and force him to come before Congress with any plans that would prolong the U.S. commitment in Iraq. It was a brilliant tactical move, a sweeping gesture intended to blur the huge advantage Obama has as the only one of the three to have opposed the war from the beginning. "
Tuesday
Rice visits hot spot in northern Iraq
Rice visits hot spot in northern Iraq
Excerpt:
"U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Tuesday and dropped in on the volatile northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a U.S. Embassy spokesman in Baghdad confirmed.
She then visited Baghdad to meet with Iraqi officials and will hold a press conference with her Iraqi counterpart, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari."
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/18/iraq.rice/?iref=mpstoryview
