"William Safire: Of Turks and Kurds
12:05 AM CDT on Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Faced with a charge by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld last week that al-Qaeda elements were in Iraq;
And in light of detailed reports in this space and elsewhere naming names of "Afghan Arab" terrorists sent to assassinate Kurdish leaders who were captured by anti-Saddam Kurds in northern Iraq;
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And aware that many of the terrorist captives were revealing to interrogators their infiltration through Iraq, their Qaeda training and their current production of poisons in mountain hideaways – Saddam Hussein came up with an answer:
It's all an Iranian plot. Saddam's son Uday claims that those killers have nothing to do with either al-Qaeda or Iraq. The dauphin sought to divert the blame to a different end of the axis of evil. "
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