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July 12, 2003
Saturday
 
 
When Saddam met Osama
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland)  Middle East & Islamic

Glenn Reynolds is off to see the Granny today but left behind this bombshell from an article in the Tennessean written by a former boss of his:

Halfway down the middle column is written: ''Abid Al-Karim Muhamed Aswod, intelligence officer responsible for the coordination of activities with the Osama bin Laden group at the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan.

The statement is by Judge Gilbert S. Merritt of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is currently with an ABA judicial-assistance mission in Iraq.

Comments

Read that too.Interesting,but I'd like to hear another opinion.Let's wait until they capture someone who knows why that list was published. (Uday?)


Posted by JH at July 12, 2003 03:38 PM

However, the Tennessean also notes, in this related article, that a qualifying comment appeared in the Iraqi newspaper, just prior to the list of names in which this linkage occurs.

The qualifier makes it quite quesionable as to what the list was all really about.


Posted by Geo at July 12, 2003 03:57 PM