Revisiting Iraq and Al Qaeda evidence

LAST UPDATED: 22 JULY 2005

(For a chronological and comprehensive listing of commentary and evidence, go to Archive News' Connect the Dots.)

------------------------ The Newsmakers -------------------------------

President Bush

• on Iraq and Al Qaeda, after Cabient meeting (17 June 2004)
• on Persevering in Iraq, Ft. Bragg (28 June 2005)

9-11 Commission Report and Staff Findings

• transcript of Commissioner Fred Fielding and Chicago U.S. Attorney Pat Fitzgerald (indicted bin Laden in 1998), regarding the allegation in the 1998 bin Laden indictment about an understanding between Iraq and al Qaeda (15 June 2004)

History News Network's compilation of newsmakers on topic.

------------------------ Commentators -------------------------------

Edward J. Epstein

• on mysteries of 9-11 and questions the Commission never addressed
• on Havel denying NY Times story relating Havel calling Bush to deny the meeting of Iraqi intelligence and Mohammed Atta in Prague
• on what is known of the meeting
• his article in Slate on the matter

Steve Hays on

• "Why Can't the CIA Keep Up with the New Yorker?" (13 September 2002)
  
• "A Match Made in Hell" (2 February 2003)
  
• "Maureen Dowd's Intelligence" (15 February 2003)
  
• "The Al Qaeda Connection" (12 May 2003)
  
• "Immigrant, Journalist, Iraqi Spy" (11 July 2003)
  
• "The Al Qaeda Connection" (11 July 2003) (Judge Merritt's report (via Instapundit))
  
• "Saddam's Al Qaeda Connection" (1 September 2003)
  
• "Dick Cheney Was Right" (20 October 2003)
  
• "Osama's Best Friend" (3 November 2003)
  
• "The Saddam-Osama Memo (cont.)" (19 November 2003)
  
• "Newsweek's 'Case'" (20 November 2003) (Newsweek's article (19 November 2003))
  
• "Case Closed" (24 November 2003)
  
• "The Clinton View of Iraq-al Qaeda Ties" (29 December 2003)
  
• "Cheney vs. Powell" (11 January 2004)
  
• Weekly Standard Editorial "Two Collin Powells" (19 January 2004)
  
• "More Connections" (3 June 2004)
• "The Connection" (7 June 2004)
• "Cutting Through the Fog" (23 June 2004)
• "Who is Ahmed Hikmat Shakir?" (23 June 2004)
• "Body of Evidence" - correcting CNN's error (30 June 2005)
• "The Mother of All Connections" - an Iraqi/alQaeda detainee (9 July 2005)
• "The DIA and CIA Go MIA" - American Intel's failure to connect the dots (17 July 2005)
  
• "Another Link in the Chain" - the creation of Ansar al Islam (22 July 2005)
  

Thomas Joscelyn

• "The Four-Day War" - Saddam's helpmate under Clinton's bombing (19 July 2005)
  

Cliff May

• "The Offended 'Offensive'" - Regarding Bush' Persevering Speech, Ft. Bragg, (29 June 2005)

Andy McCarthy (bio)

• "Iraq and Militant Islam" - legitmacy of links (1 June 2004)
• "Iraq and al Qaeda" -Questsions the Commission doesn't answer (17 June 2004)
• "It's All About 9-11" - Regarding Bush's Persevering Speech at Ft. Bragg (29 June 2005)
• Regarding Replies to his 29 June 2005 article (30 June 2005)
• "Case Not Dismissed" -Ahmed Hikmat Shakir & the 9/11 Commission (1 July 2005)
  

Richard Miniter on

• "The Iraq Al Qaeda Connections " Tech Central Station (25 September 2003)

Laurie Mylroie

• "How Terror Investigations Can Go Wrong" WSJ (26 December 2001)
• "Another Mistaken Conceptzia" Jerusalem Post (4 December 2002)
• "Understated" NRO (5 February 2003)
• "The Circle of Terror" NRO (19 February 2003)
• "The Baluch Connection" WSJ (18 February 2003)
• KJ Lopez Interviews Laurie Mylroie NRO (11 September 2003)
• Angelo Codevilla's Review of Mylroie's "Bush Vs. Beltway" NRO (1 November 2003)
• "'Al Qaeda Dunnit!' Think Again!" NRO (24 November 2003)
• Frontpage Interview: Saddam and 9/11 (8 January 2004)

Powerline on the relationship

Robert L. Pollock "Enemies Together: Clinton Was Right" WSJ (24 June 2004)

William Safire "The Zeiklow Report" -NYT (21 June 2004)