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"Saddam in the crosshairs"
ABC News video report by Sheila MacVicar on RealOne Player from January 14, 1999
"Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view". Jane's Information Group. 2001-09-19. Retrieved 2006-09-10.
Benjamin, Daniel (2002-09-30). "Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda Are Not Allies". The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-09-10.
Saddam and al Qaeda the link we've all missed by David Rose, The Evening Standard London, December 9, 2002
Goldberg, Jeffrey (2003-02-03). "The Unknown: The C.I.A. and the Pentagon take another look at Al Qaeda and Iraq". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 2006-09-10.
Star finds bin Laden-Iraq links by Mitch Potter, Toronto Star, April 28, 2003
U.S. District Court Judge Harold Baer, Jr. (2003). "Opinion and Order" (PDF). United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Retrieved 2006-09-10.
[http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34147 Saddam and bin Laden] by Joseph Farah, August 18, 2003
The Iraq — Al Qaeda Connections by Richard Miniter, September 23, 2003
Case Closed: The U.S. government's secret memo detailing cooperation between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden by Stephen F. Hayes, November 17, 2003
Case Decidedly Not Closed Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball MSNBC, November 19, 2003
Iraq-al Qaeda link comes in focus by Rowan Scarborough Washington Times, December 1, 2003
Does this link Saddam to 9/11? Daily Telegraph, December 14, 2003
DoD Statement on News Reports of Al Qaeda and Iraq Connections Dept. of Defense, December 15, 2003
Dubious link between Atta and Saddam MSNBC, December 19, 2003
The Clinton View of Iraq-al Qaeda Ties at www.weeklystandard.com The Clinton View of Iraq-al Qaeda Ties] by Stephen F. Hayes, December 29, 2003
Iraq and Al Qaeda: Allies or Not? Congressional Research Service, February 5, 2004
Saddam's Ambassador to al Qaeda by Jonathan Schanzer March 1, 2004
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The Connection by Stephen F. Hayes, June 7, 2004
9/11 panel sees no link between Iraq, al-Qaida MSNBC June 16, 2004
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The Left Coaster: Why Americans Believe There Was an Al Qaeda/Iraq Link at www.theleftcoaster.com
CNN.com - Rice: Iraq trained al Qaeda in chemical weapons - Sep. 25, 2002 at archives.cnn.com
The Clinton View of Iraq-al Qaeda Ties at www.weeklystandard.com
CNN.com - 9/11 panel: Al Qaeda planned to hijack 10 planes - Jun 17, 2004 at www.cnn.com
Latest Headlines, Top News, Entertainment, Health, Science and Sports News - UPI at www.upi.com
[1] at www.warblogging.com
The Memory Hole > Bush Flatly Declares No Connection Between Saddam and al Qaeda at www.thememoryhole.com

2 Background Sections?

I think it is strange to see 2 separate Background sections. The first one is alright but the second one seems wholly unnecessary. The first sentence deals with Saddam invoking religion for political purposes, completely unrelated to Al-Qaeda link allegations. The second paragraph deals with the Feith Memo, which has its own subsection anyway. It also mentions the Prague meeting, which is also discussed later on. The details about the camp at Salman Pak can be moved to the subsection on the 2002 DIA report. The final paragraph with Mubarak al-Duri can be moved up to Conflicting Ideologies. It might also be cleaner to create a subsection under Skepticism specifically detailing the unreliability of defectors' testimony. I will play around with this in a sandbox and see if I can get something looking nice. SatelliteOrbit (talk | contribs) 17:46, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge

Merge Timeline of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations into Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations. The content mostly overlaps and there are no need for two separate articles. Much of the timeline article can be cut down in length due to lengthy and WP:POV citations of quotes. Longhornsg (talk) 03:19, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]