From CNSNews. A little long, but definitely worth reading. http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archive\200410\SPE20041004a.html
It's a good article, but CNS is conservative source. I doubt anyone else will run with it. Nothing can be said to change these people's minds about Iraq. I guess they all forgot about the Clinton Administration and the media talking about the growing Saddam-Bin Laden ties in the late '90's. I guess that little link disappeared on September 11, 2001.
I'd be a little leery of unsubstantiated documents that mysteriously appear. Who the hell is CNSnews, anyway? What credibility do they have when the major media sources have not reported this story? After Dan Rather, people can't just shake a document and proclaim it as truth. Let's see if it stands up to some scrutiny.
From the text of the article, "A senior government official who is not a political appointee provided CNSNews.com with copies of the 42 pages of Iraqi Intelligence Service documents. The originals, some of which were hand-written and others typed, are in Arabic. CNSNews.com had the papers translated into English by two individuals separately and independent of each other." A news organization like NPR and PBS. The Cybercast News Service was launched on June 16, 1998 as a news source for individuals, news organizations and broadcasters who put a higher premium on balance than spin and seek news that’s ignored or under-reported as a result of media bias by omission. Study after study by the Media Research Center, the parent organization of CNSNews.com, clearly demonstrate a liberal bias in many news outlets – bias by commission and bias by omission – that results in a frequent double-standard in editorial decisions on what constitutes "news." In response to these shortcomings, MRC Chairman L. Brent Bozell III founded CNSNews.com in an effort to provide an alternative news source that would cover stories that are subject to the bias of omission and report on other news subject to bias by commission. CNSNews.com endeavors to fairly present all legitimate sides of a story and debunk popular, albeit incorrect, myths about cultural and policy issues. CNSNews.com has a full staff of journalists at its world headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, bureaus in London, Jerusalem, the Pacific Rim and on Capitol Hill, and correspondents across the nation and around the world. In addition to news, CNSNews.com is proud to present a full slate of commentaries by some of the brightest minds and sharpest wits in the nation, and a full stable of cartoonists to provides you with a morning political chuckle. CNSNews.com is a division of the Media Research Center, a not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) organization. Like National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System, CNSNews.com is able to provide its services and information to the public at no cost, thanks to the generous support of our thousands of donors and their tax-deductible contributions. However, unlike NPR or PBS, CNSNews.com does not accept any federal tax money for its operations. As the article says, the documents were leaked to them, not Fox, CBS, CNN etc. Also from the article, "To protect against the Iraqi intelligence documents being altered or misrepresented elsewhere on the Internet, CNSNews.com has decided to publish only the first of the 42 pages in Arabic, along with the English translation. Portions of some of the other memos in translated form are also being published to accompany this report. Credentialed journalists and counter-terrorism experts seeking to view the 42 pages of Arabic documents or to challenge their authenticity may make arrangements to do so at CNSNews.com headquarters in Alexandria, Va. So they are making them available to whatever scrutiny anyone wants to place on them. If you'd like to read up a little more about them, you can go to their home page.
