According to the sworn testimony of al-Qaeda member Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali in 2001, Osama bin Laden delivered a lecture in Pakistan in 1988.2.4.3 Starting in 1995, Salman Pak, Iraq.They say the revelation undermines the basis on which the US went to war in Iraq. Opposition Democrats are accusing the White House of deliberate deception. One instance of this reaction was reported in a BBC news article, which stated:

The result of the publication of the Senate report was the belief that the entire connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda was an official deception based on cherry picking specific intelligence data that bolstered the case for war with Iraq regardless of its reliability. Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support. The Intelligence Community has not found any other evidence of meetings between al'Qa'ida and Iraq. Postwar findings have identified two occasions, not reported prior to the war, in which Saddam Hussein rebuffed meeting requests from an al-Qa'ida operative. Postwar findings have identified only one meeting between representatives of al-Qa'ida and Saddam Hussein's regime reported in prewar intelligence assessments. In 2006, a report of postwar findings by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded that: While there have been a number of promising intelligence leads hinting at possible meetings between al-Qaeda members and elements of the former Baghdad regime, nothing has been yet shown demonstrating that these potential contacts were historically any more significant than the same level of communication maintained between Osama bin Laden and ruling elements in a number of Iraq's Persian Gulf neighbors, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, Qatar, and Kuwait. In 2003, American terrorism analyst Evan Kohlman said in an interview: Secretary of State Richard Armitage says the only way to assure that Saddam Hussein could be captured alive is if he surrenders to military personnel.This article is a chronological listing of allegations of meetings between members of al-Qaeda and members of Saddam Hussein's government, as well as other information relevant to conspiracy theories involving Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. soldiers also uncovered a large weapons cache in Tikrit that they say contained enough materiel to carry out a month of guerilla attacks. Finding him, they say, would help end a guerilla campaign that has killed almost 50 American soldiers since the end of major combat operations on May 1. The United States has put a $25 million bounty on Saddam. They say the deposed leader is running out of places to hide. military officials say they are receiving more intelligence on Saddam Hussein's possible whereabouts, both from Iraqi tip-offs and from their raids. Lieutenant Colonel Steve Russell, who took part in the operation, called the man a close associate and life-long bodyguard of Saddam Hussein. He was escorted out of the building minutes later, bleeding and dressed only in his underwear. They say soldiers fired two shots before storming a house to capture him. military officials say the bodyguard, Adnan Abdullah Abid al-Musslit, was one of several people detained in the operation.

The Coalition Press Information Center in Iraq confirms the arrest of one of Saddam Hussein's bodyguards during a military operation in Tikrit. military says it has captured one of Saddam Hussein's bodyguards in a pre-dawn raid Tuesday in the former dictator's hometown of Tikrit.

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