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Further, "While the study showed no link between Saddam Hussein's regime and Al Qaeda, <b>it does detail the former Iraq dictator's support for Middle Eastern terror groups, including those linked to Al Qaeda.</b> Also in the report are memos showing Uday ordered officials to “<b>start planning special <i>operations</i></b> in the centres of the traitors’ symbols in the fields of <b>London</b> / Iran / self-ruled areas [Kurdish northern Iraq]”, it was reported." <ref> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340745,00.html </ref>
Further, "While the study showed no link between Saddam Hussein's regime and Al Qaeda, <b>it does detail the former Iraq dictator's support for Middle Eastern terror groups, including those linked to Al Qaeda.</b> Also in the report are memos showing Uday ordered officials to “<b>start planning special <i>operations</i></b> in the centres of the traitors’ symbols in the fields of <b>London</b> / Iran / self-ruled areas [Kurdish northern Iraq]”, it was reported." <ref> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340745,00.html </ref>
The Ba'athist party was a terror organization. Seeking additional support for terror in the region, Saddam was paying Palestine families $25,000 in U.S. dollars, if their sons blew themselves up in Israel<ref>http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/03/25/1017004766310.html , Sydney Morning Herald Saddam stokes war with suicide bomber cash, March 26,2002</ref>
The Ba'athist party was a terror organization. Seeking additional support for terror in the region, Saddam was paying Palestine families $25,000 in U.S. dollars, if their sons blew themselves up in Israel<ref>http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/03/25/1017004766310.html , Sydney Morning Herald Saddam stokes war with suicide bomber cash, March 26,2002</ref>
This June 29, 2010 article shows proof that <b>"both Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda supported Ansar al Islam, a Jihadist Kurdish outfit that has tried to kill the current Kurdish prime minister, Barham Salih. In 2008, the Institute for Defense Analyses released a more thorough report on Iraq's involvement in terrorism between the two gulf wars that was based on more than 600,000 captured Iraqi documents."</b>
The report uncovers many different <b>points of connection between Saddam and al Qaeda</b>, including evidence that the IIS funded Ayman Zawahiri in the early 1990s when he was the head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. The IIS also sought out suicide bombers to attack the Saudi royal family, and Iraq also sought to send assistance to jihadists fighting U.S. peacekeepers in Somalia in the early 1990s as well. This says nothing of Saddam's support for Hamas and other Palestinians suicide bombers in the second intifada.
<b>The report also undercuts the claim that Saddam Hussein, being a secular Ba'athist, was incapable of cooperating with radical Islamists who viewed the Iraqi dictator as an apostate ruler. Instead, the report said that Iraq's relationship to radical Islamic terrorist groups was more like the relationship between rival Colombian cocaine cartels, in that it was possible for wary cooperation on mutual short term goals, and then violent competition later.</b>
In addition to the IDA report, which I think is more definitive because it is an analysis of documents captured during the war and not simply derived from interviews with captured senior leaders, there are other good reasons to think<b> Iraq and al Qaeda had more of a relationship than widely believed by the net left</b>. Carl Ford, the head of the State Department's Intelligence and Research bureau before the war wrote in a memo in 2003, "We have some evidence that Iraqi Intelligence has been in contact with elements in the northeastern area. And <b>the al-Qaeda operatives there are in regular contact with other operatives located in Baghdad. The Iraqi government has also received information from other sources alerting it to the presence of al-Qaeda operatives in Baghdad.</b>" Carl Ford in an interview with PBS Frontline has stood by his contention that <b><i>al Qaeda operatives were flooding into Iraq before the war.</i></b>
<ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/06/on-that-dastardly-saddam-al-qaeda-connection/58901/ </ref>
===Summary update on WMD and Iraq/terrorist/Al Qaeda connections NOT being falsified===
===Summary update on WMD and Iraq/terrorist/Al Qaeda connections NOT being falsified===