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

Remember that one little word? Rememeber the direct quote was "no operational link"?

Well...overseas...

SABAH (English edition)
The connection between Saddam and Osama is sham

The thesis of the connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda which was one of the reasons for the US' occupying Iraq could not be proven. Pentagon investigated 600 thousand official documents and wrote a report saying "there is no connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam regime."

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http://english.sabah.com.tr/50C074580596473EBEBADEC67EC53D16.html

You know, sometimes in the course of our own discourse and expanding something into the broader perspective, we lose track of facts.

The fact is, what Sabah is reporting is not what was quoted.