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...months now, America's most powerful argument for invading Iraq has been its least persuasive one: the allegation that an alliance exists between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Secretary of State Colin Powell attempted last week to explain the basis of the Administration's often befuddling certainty. In his speech to the U.N., Powell presented the most specific case yet that there exists a "sinister nexus," as he put it, between Iraq and bin Laden's al-Qaeda...
...Qaeda source" as saying that in the early and mid-1990s, the terrorist group forged a nonaggression pact with the Iraqi regime. Since then, Powell said, the two sides have met at least eight times "at very senior levels." He said that according to a "foreign security service," bin Laden himself met with the director of the Iraqi intelligence service. Powell further claimed that an Iraqi defector told U.S. officials that Saddam sent agents to Afghanistan in the mid-1990s to train al-Qaeda terrorists in document forgery. Powell quoted a detained al-Qaeda operative as saying that Iraq...
These are unsettling times in the United States. The country been on orange alert since Friday, a new bin Laden audiotape is making the rounds and CIA director George Tenet is on Capitol Hill warning us that an al-Qaeda attack could come as early as this week. And to top it all off, the Homeland Security Department website is asking, "Are You Ready?" Ready? We're so ready it hurts. But what should we be ready for, exactly...
...sure, well, 99%, because only God can be 100% sure, that he is not in Pakistan." PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, Pakistani President, revising his earlier claims that Osama bin Laden is dead...
...Crimson, the road has once again proved to be its kryptonite, a disappointment for the senior-laden squad whose resiliency away from Lavietes Pavilion during its non-league schedule suggested a better fate during the Ivy season...