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The mounting evidence of operational ties....
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   ....[1]between Saddam and Al Qaeda makes the 9/11 Commission's report
   almost laughable in retrospect.

     An al Qaeda document newly released by the Combating Terrorism
     Center (CTC) of the United States Military Academy provides an
     extraordinary new connection to a previously reported order by
     Saddam Hussein to support al Qaeda attacks upon US forces in
     Somalia. It corresponds with other documents that show Saddam
     Hussein was using Islamic terrorists as proxies to attack US
     interests. The document was part of a US Army report on al Qaeda in
     Africa. That study contends that although al Qaeda managed to train
     other Islamic fighters in Africa, it did the organization no long
     term good, as it failed to bend the region to al Qaeda doctrine.
     The al Qaeda document is entitled The Ogaden File: Operation
     Holding (Al-Msk). Its' name refers to a tribal region of Ethiopia
     extending into Somalia (Ogaden) and âal-Msk' is an acronym for the
     Mission to hold Somalia and Kenya. The file is a personal log about
     a group of al Qaeda terrorists sent to Somalia in 1993 to provide
     military training to local Islamic militants. Islamic fighters
     trained by al Qaeda would later kill 18 Army Special Forces
     soldiers in what has become know as the Battle of Mogadishu which
     was portrayed in the popular movie Black Hawk Down. The US
     government confirmed the involvement of al Qaeda and Usama bin
     Laden in a 1998 indictment against him for the Somali attacks.
     The al Qaeda document itself provides a fascinating look at
     training operations of an expeditionary nature in hostile
     territory. It lists several terrorists who subsequently became high
     ranking al Qaeda leaders (most were later killed or captured by US
     forces). Many of them were Egyptians with the Egyptian Islamic
     Jihad (EIJ) terror group led by al Qaeda number two man Ayman al
     Zawahiri. The log was written by an al Qaeda terrorist named Saif
     al-Islam al Masri who was known to be a leader of al Qaeda in
     Somalia and an EIJ leader. He is now in US custody.

   There was a reason Saddam enjoyed watching Blackhawk Down. He saw it
   as a personal victory against the US.
   Meanwhile, our politicians were napping soundly while the CIA was
   fiddling its thumbs.

References

   1. http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/05/more_evidence_of_saddamal_qaed.html