Talk:Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations

Sources on the article's subject

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• "Saddam in the crosshairs"
• ABC News video report by Sheila MacVicar on RealOne Player from January 14, 1999
• Saddam and al Qaeda the link we've all missed by David Rose, The Evening Standard London, December 9, 2002
• Star finds bin Laden-Iraq links by Mitch Potter, Toronto Star, April 28, 2003
• [http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34147 Saddam and bin Laden] by Joseph Farah, August 18, 2003
• The Iraq — Al Qaeda Connections by Richard Miniter, September 23, 2003
• Case Closed: The U.S. government's secret memo detailing cooperation between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden by Stephen F. Hayes, November 17, 2003
• Case Decidedly Not Closed Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball MSNBC, November 19, 2003
• Iraq-al Qaeda link comes in focus by Rowan Scarborough Washington Times, December 1, 2003
• Does this link Saddam to 9/11? Daily Telegraph, December 14, 2003
• DoD Statement on News Reports of Al Qaeda and Iraq Connections Dept. of Defense, December 15, 2003
• Dubious link between Atta and Saddam MSNBC, December 19, 2003
• The Clinton View of Iraq-al Qaeda Ties at www.weeklystandard.com The Clinton View of Iraq-al Qaeda Ties] by Stephen F. Hayes, December 29, 2003
• Iraq and Al Qaeda: Allies or Not? Congressional Research Service, February 5, 2004
• Saddam's Ambassador to al Qaeda by Jonathan Schanzer March 1, 2004
• Iraq On the Record - The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq (U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Gov't Reform - Minority Staff, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA)), March 16, 2004
• The Connection by Stephen F. Hayes, June 7, 2004
• 9/11 panel sees no link between Iraq, al-Qaida MSNBC June 16, 2004
• Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed by Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank, Washington Post June 17, 2004, p. A1
• Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Pre-War Intelligence Assessments on Iraq Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, July 7, 2004
• The Truth About the Saddam-Al-Qaeda Connection, Robert S. Leiken, November 2004
• It's all about 9/11 By Andrew C. McCarthy, June 29, 2005
• The ties that bound Iraq to bin Laden By Stephen F Hayes, July 18, 2005
• The Four-Day War by Thomas Joscelyn, July 19, 2005
• Saddam's Terror Training Camps by Stephen F. Hayes, Weekly Standard, January 16, 2006

Additional Sources

• The Left Coaster: Why Americans Believe There Was an Al Qaeda/Iraq Link at www.theleftcoaster.com
• CNN.com - Rice: Iraq trained al Qaeda in chemical weapons - Sep. 25, 2002 at archives.cnn.com
• The Clinton View of Iraq-al Qaeda Ties at www.weeklystandard.com
• CNN.com - 9/11 panel: Al Qaeda planned to hijack 10 planes - Jun 17, 2004 at www.cnn.com
• Latest Headlines, Top News, Entertainment, Health, Science and Sports News - UPI at www.upi.com
• [1] at www.warblogging.com
• The Memory Hole > Bush Flatly Declares No Connection Between Saddam and al Qaeda at www.thememoryhole.com

2 Background Sections?

I think it is strange to see 2 separate Background sections. The first one is alright but the second one seems wholly unnecessary. The first sentence deals with Saddam invoking religion for political purposes, completely unrelated to Al-Qaeda link allegations. The second paragraph deals with the Feith Memo, which has its own subsection anyway. It also mentions the Prague meeting, which is also discussed later on. The details about the camp at Salman Pak can be moved to the subsection on the 2002 DIA report. The final paragraph with Mubarak al-Duri can be moved up to Conflicting Ideologies. It might also be cleaner to create a subsection under Skepticism specifically detailing the unreliability of defectors' testimony. I will play around with this in a sandbox and see if I can get something looking nice. SatelliteOrbit (talk | contribs) 17:46, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Proposed merge

Merge Timeline of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations into Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations. The content mostly overlaps and there are no need for two separate articles. Much of the timeline article can be cut down in length due to lengthy and WP:POV citations of quotes. Longhornsg (talk) 03:19, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

@Longhornsg, both articles are sufficiently long on first glance. However, if you think that the quotes in the timeline article are too long, I would recommend editing it to conform with WP standards and then seeing if the articles could still stand to be merged. This will also have the effect of improving the encyclopedia. In any case, the merge process strongly recommends editing be done in a different edit than the actual merge, so editing it now would help comply with that guideline. JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 07:58, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I like the timeline. Thriley (talk) 21:41, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

So merge the latter into the timeline? Longhornsg (talk) 22:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)