Exhaustive review sponsored by the Pentagon finds NO link between Saddam, al Qaida

blackadder said

He had no links to Al Queda.

The study was based on EXHAUSTIVE review or Iraqi documents. What that says to me is that there was nothing in those documents that indicated any cooperation with Al Queda aimed the United States.

According the maxim of "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" I would expect some indirect contact through operatives with Islamic extremists in order to keep tabs on them, not to attack the U.S.

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You missed the entire point. See Bulldawg's post above.

Operational (standard English) - Working, viable.

Operational (Pentagon-ese) - A level of war involving Division-sized elements confined to a given geographical region, limited in size and scope, ie: Operation Desert Storm.

The headline of the story you posted is totally misleading and way off base. The report it cites is a Pentagon report, written in Pentagon lingo. It doesn't say there was "no link" it says there was no "direct operational link."

Given that al-Qaeda doesn't do conventional warfare, using division-sized maneuver elements, this is hardly surprising.

Non-news.