[Culturechat] Sunday Telegraph: Link found between Saddam and Al Qaeda

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>From ABC News:

Secret Iraqi intelligence documents found in Baghdad have provided the first 
evidence of a direct link between Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network and 
Saddam Hussein's regime, the London newspaper Sunday Telegraph reported. 

It said it had found files on Saturday in the bombed headquarters of the 
Mukhabarat, the Iraqi intelligence service, which showed that an Al Qaeda 
envoy was invited secretly to Baghdad in March 1998. 

The aim of the meeting had been to establish a relationship between the Iraqi 
regime and Al Qaeda based on their shared hatred of the United States and 
Saudi Arabia, the Sunday Telegraph said.