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Exhaustive pentagon report finds no iraq 911 links { March 11 2008 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080311/NEWS07/803110343/1009/NEWS07 http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080311/NEWS07/803110343/1009/NEWS07 Pentagon fails to find that Hussein helped Al Qaeda FREE PRESS NEWS SERVICES • March 11, 2008 WASHINGTON -- An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were confiscated after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network. The Pentagon-sponsored study, scheduled for release later this week, did confirm that Hussein's regime provided some support to other terrorist groups, particularly in the Mideast, U.S. officials said. However, Hussein's security services were directed primarily against Iraqi exiles, Shi'ite Muslims, Kurds and others labeled enemies of his regime. The new study of the Iraqi regime's archives found no documents indicating a "direct operational link" between Hussein's Iraq and Osama Bin Laden's network before the invasion, according to a U.S. official familiar with the report. The official and others spoke on condition of anonymity because the study isn't due to be shared with Congress and released before Wednesday. President George W. Bush and his aides used Hussein's alleged relationship with Al Qaeda as an argument for invading Iraq after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. 5 U.S. SOLDIERS DIE: A suicide bomber killed five U.S. soldiers on a foot patrol Monday after detonating explosives in central Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Four of the soldiers died at the scene and the fifth died later, the military said in a statement. The blast also wounded three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter, the military said. Monday's deaths brought the number to 3,979 members of the U.S. military who have died since the Iraq war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. BLACKWATER PROBE SOUGHT: Rep. Henry Waxman, who leads the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has called for a federal investigation into Blackwater Worldwide, alleging that the private security contractor violated tax and labor laws by classifying its guards as independent contractors rather than company employees. A Blackwater spokeswoman said the charges are "completely without merit." In letters sent Monday, Waxman, D-Calif., asked the Internal Revenue Service and the Labor Department to investigate whether Blackwater defrauded the government of tax revenue and violated labor laws.

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