The Link Between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda
Following the attacks of September 11 in 2001, President Bush alleged that a highly secretive relationship existed between Saddam administration and Al Qaeda. US Gobernment claimed that the relations were established during the post gulf war period from 1993 to 2003. According to the case put forward by the US, the relations were established especially through a series of meetings reportedly involving the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS).
In the run up to the invasion of Iraq, U.S. president George W. Bush declared Saddam administration as a rationale to war. He alleged that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda were conspiring to launch terrorist attacks on the United States.
However the consensus of intelligence experts establishes that no contact between Alqaeda and Iraq led to any operational relationship between the two.The reports from the independent 9/11 Commission, as well as the declassified Defense Department report also admits that no operational relationship existed between the two.The investigation into the pre war intelligence, by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, concluded as well that there was no evidence of Saddam Hussein ties to Al-Qaeda. Many critics from all over the world and from within Bush Administration have accused Bush of intentionally misleading the world with false and inflated evidence without regard to factual evidence. Consensus views on whether Saddam played a role in the 9/11 attacks states that there was no evidence supporting Saddams role in the 9/11. Even President Bush made it clear in 2006 that Saddam had no connection with the attacks on the WTC.
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