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Both Alex Knapp and James Joyner (writing at Tech Central Station, so feel free to dismiss accordingly) think the 9/11 commission’s standard of proof for al-Qaeda involvement in, well, anything might be just a tad too high.
As for Saddam himself:
Saddam’s government was never the world’s foremost sponsor of terrorism. Iran and Saudi Arabia far outstripped him in that regard. Nonetheless, the fact that Saddam Hussein actively supported Islamic terrorists has been an article of faith since the Carter Administration. Indeed, Iraq was one of the original five states (along with Iran, Libya, Syria, and Cuba) on the original “Patterns of Global Terrorism” list compiled by the State Department in 1979. Saddam was a major sponsor of various terrorist groups, including the PLO, Hamas, and the Abu Nidal Organization.
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Last night on O’Reilly, former IL Gov. James Thompson, who is on the 9–11 Commission, maintained that the commission’s findings have been grossly distorted. His take: the commission found no credible evidence that Saddam collaborated with al Qaeda in the 9–11 attacks, but made no findings one way or the other on any other collaborative efforts there may have been between them (to say nothing of other terrorist groups like the ones identified in this post).