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Al Qaeda’s Honeypot

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A top member of Al Qaeda in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons … an intelligence report from February 2002, said it was probable that the prisoner, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, was intentionally misleading the debriefers in making claims about Iraqi support for Al Qaedas work with illicit weapons … Saddams regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary movements,” the D.I.A. report said in one of two declassified paragraphs. Moreover, Baghdad is unlikely to provide assistance to a group it cannot control.”

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