Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden
The Connection

Last Updated 03/17/2006
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Quinn and Rose - The Warroom: abcnews-1999 (09/29/04)

The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America Stephen F. Hayes

Newly released document links Saddam to al-Qaida (03-17-06)
Indicates regime was cooperating with bin Laden group to strike U.S.

Document: Afghani Taliban Consul Spoke of a Relationship Between Iraq and Bin Laden (See Translation) (03-17-06)

New Documents from Saddam Hussein's Archives Discuss Bin Laden, WMDs by ABCNews (03-16-06)
U.S. Government Releases Papers From Saddam's Reign

Post-Haste by Stephen F. Hayes (03-15-06)
The first batch of captured documents from pre-war Iraq and Afghanistan are now available online.

Saddam's Terror Training Camps by Stephen F. Hayes (01-16-06)
What the documents captured from the former Iraqi regime reveal--and why they should all be made public.

The Saddam-Al Qaeda Connection by W. Thomas Smith, Jr. (01-16-06)

The Algerian Plague by Thomas Joscelyn (01-19-06)
Going inside the terrorist group GSPC.

Who Are Those Guys? by Dan Darling (01-11-06)
Understanding the ties between Ansar al Islam, the GSPC, the Sudanese Islamic Army, and al Qaeda.

Why Do Democrats Fear the Al-Qaida/Saddam Relationship? by Michael Barone (03-06-06)

No hype needed: Saddam, al-Qaida linked by Victor Davis Hanson (11-25-05)

"Boogie to Baghdad" by Byron York (11-21-05)

U.N. Procurement Scandal: Ties to Saddam and Al Qaeda by Claudia Rosett and George Russell (10-21-05)

Iraqi General: Saddam Harbored 4,000 Terrorists on War's Eve (07-13-05)

It’s All About 9/11 by Andrew McCarthy (06-29-05)
The president links Iraq and al Qaeda — and the usual suspects moan. 

Osama-Saddam links 9-11 commission missed by WorldNetDaily (06-18-04)
Overwhelming evidence of connection between al-Qaida, Iraq before attack 

Secret intelligence memo links Saddam, bin Laden by WorldNetDaily (11-15-03)
Relationship involved training in WMD, financial support for 9-11 hijacker Atta 

Saddam and bin Laden by Joseph Farah (08-18-03)

Saddam and al Qaeda by David Rose (12-09-02)

Iraq-al-Qaida links go back decade by WorldNetDaily (12-11-02)
CIA reports show nearly 100 examples of cooperation, says reporter

The Omission Commission by Edward Morrissey (08-17-05)
The 9/11 Commission Report failed to make any mention of Iraqi operations in Germany that might have been connected to al Qaeda.

Another Detail The 9/11 Commission Seems To Have Missed (08-13-05)

 The Algerian Connection by Thomas Joscelyn (08/03/05)
Why did Saddam financially support an al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria?

The Rise of Ansar al-Islam by Dan Darling (07/28/05)
Inside the birth of the Kurdish terrorist organization.
 
An Evolving Assessment by Stephen F. Hayes & Thomas Joscelyn (07/27/05)
Why did the CIA change its view of the relationship between Sudan and Saddam's Iraq?

The Pope of Terrorism, Part II  by Thomas Joscelyn (07/26/05)
Hassan al-Turabi, Sudan, and the bin Laden-Iraq connection.

The Pope of Terrorism, Part I  by Thomas Joscelyn (07/25/05)
Hassan al-Turabi, ally of Saddam Hussein and bin Laden's long-time friend and benefactor, is freed from jail.

Another Link in the Chain by Stephen F. Hayes & Thomas Joscelyn (07/22/05)
The role of Saddam and al Qaeda in the creation of Ansar al Islam.

The Al-Douri Factor by Dan Darling (07/20/05)
How one of Saddam's closest Baath party aides came to be an ally of militant Islamists.

The Four-Day War by Thomas Joscelyn (07/19/05)
Who did Saddam Hussein turn to after President Clinton launched Operation Desert Fox? Osama bin Laden.

The DIA and CIA Go MIA by Stephen F. Hayes (07/18/05)
It's bad enough that the media doesn't follow the connection between Saddam and Osama. Where's the American intelligence community?

Saddam and al Qaeda by Claudia Rosett (07/13/05)
There's abundant evidence of connections.

A CNN anchor gets Iraq and al Qaeda wrong. But will the network issue a correction? by Stephen F. Hayes (06/30/05)

Rolling Rockefeller by Stephen F. Hayes (06/30/05)
The vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee once saw "a substantial connection between Saddam and al Qaeda." Not any more.

The Connection Continued by Peter Wehner (06/30/05)
The president is still right to tie the terror war to 9/11.

The Osama-Saddam Link Confirmed by Captain's Quarters Blog (06/20/05)
Allawi corroborates King Abdullah on the connection.

The Osama-Saddam Connection -- in Yemen by Jane Novak (06/14/05)
Al Qaeda and Hussein's generals don't even disguise their alliance here.

Saddam Sponsored Birth of Al-Qaeda in Iraq by adnokronosinternational (05/24/05)
Archives of the Hussein regime confirm the connection.

Symposium: The Saddam-Osama Connection by Jamie Glazov (02/11/05)
As Iraqis move toward democracy after their recent successful elections, the motives behind America’s liberation of Iraq continue to remain under intense scrutiny. Were the Bush administration’s actions influenced by a fear of Iraq’s connection with al Qaeda? What exact evidence suggested that possible link? Why can’t the top experts agree on it?

Tape Shows Al-Jazeera, Saddam Link by Associated Press (01/05/05)
A videotape found in a pile of documents in Baghdad following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime shows a former manager of the Al-Jazeera satellite channel thanking one of Saddam's sons for his support and telling him that "Al-Jazeera is your channel".

Prague Revisited  by Edward Jay Epstein (11/19/04)
The evidence of an Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone away.

Saddam, the ATM of Al Qaeda by Christopher Carson (11/16/04)
How the Iraqi despot funded terrorism.

Inconvenient Facts by Stephen F. Hayes (09/29/04)
John Kerry has now decided that he must deny any links between Saddam's Iraq and terrorism. There are some facts which he should be confronted with at tomorrow's debate.

Only Connect by Stephen F. Hayes (08/02/04)
Findings on Iraq and al Qaeda in the final report of the 9/11 Commission.

The Missing Link by Stephen F. Hayes (07/26/04)
What the Senate report really says about Iraq and al Qaeda.

Knight Ridder Gets It Wrong by Stephen F. Hayes (07/14/04)
The news service giant puts words in the president's mouth and then looks the other way on connections between Iraq and al Qaeda.

The Unvarnished Facts by Stephen F. Hayes (07/09/04)
Carl Levin distorts and exaggerates intelligence on the Iraq-al Qaeda connection. The Bush administration was careful with its words, the Michigan senator is not.

Bill Clinton Was Right by Stephen F. Hayes (07/05/04)
There was a Saddam-Osama connection and we're learning more every day.

Who Is Ahmed Hikmat Shakir? by Stephen F. Hayes (06/23/04)
According to Knight-Ridder, the mysterious Iraqi was employed with the aid of an Iraqi intelligence officer and later accompanied two Sept. 11 hijackers from the airport to a hotel where the pair met with Ramzi Binalshibh, a key planner of the attacks, and Tawfiz al Atash, who masterminded al Qaida's strike on the USS Cole in October 2000. Interesting, no?

Osama-Saddam links 9-11 commission missed by Joseph Farah (06/18/04)
Overwhelming evidence of connection between al-Qaida, Iraq before attack 

The Connection by Stephen F. Hayes (06/07/04)
Not so long ago, the ties between Iraq and al Qaeda were conventional wisdom. The conventional wisdom was right.

The Clinton View of Iraq-al Qaeda Ties by Stephen F. Hayes (12/29/03)
Connecting the dots in 1998, but not in 2003.

Case Closed by Stephen F. Hayes (11/24/03)
The U.S. government's secret memo detailing cooperation between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

The Memo and the Link Between Saddam and Osama by Lowell Ponte (11/17/03)

DoD Statement on News Reports of Al Qaeda and Iraq Connections by United States Department of Defense (11/15/03)

Osama's Best Friend by Stephen F. Hayes (11/03/03)
The further connections between al Qaeda and Saddam.

Saddam's al Qaeda Connection by Stephen F. Hayes (09/01/03)
The evidence mounts, but the administration says surprisingly little.

The proof that Saddam worked with bin Laden by Inigo Gilmore (04/28/03)  [Original link is broken]

The Al Qaeda Connection by Stephen F. Hayes (05/12/03)
Saddam's links to Osama were no secret.

Why Can't the CIA Keep Up with the New Yorker? by Stephen F. Hayes (09/13/02)
Good reporting has been done in the media on links between Saddam and al Qaeda, and the CIA still hasn't acted on it.

Did Mohamed Atta Meet an Iraqi Spy in Prague? (09/03/05) by Kate Taylor

Saddam and Terror by William Safire (08/22/02)

Gunning for Saddam by PBS Frontline
    Introduction (11/08/01)
    Interview with Sabah Khodada (10/14/01) - Sabah Khodada was a captain in the Iraqi army from 1982 to 1992. He worked at what he describes as a highly secret terrorist training camp at Salman Pak (see Khodada's hand-drawn map of the camp),  an area south of Baghdad.
    Interview with Khidhir Hamza (10/2001) - Khidhir Hamza is an American-trained nuclear physicist who headed the Iraqi nuclear weapons program before defecting to the West in 1994.

Saddam's connections to bin Laden/al-Qaeda/911 - web site with 60 more articles (from 12/28/99 to 06/18/04)

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