I was out of town on…

I was out of town on business all last week, hence the dearth of postings. But I’m baaaaack. 🙂

OK, I’ll admit it. I jumped way too fast on reports of WMD’s discovered in Iraq during the war; reports that turned out to be false. I decided from then on to give some time to reports such as those to see if they passed scrutiny before passing them on and commenting on them.

And maybe I’m breaking my rule this time, but the London Telegraph is reporting today (free registration required for reading) that they have documents retrieved from the (former) Iraqi intelligence agency (Mukhabarat) describing from at least February 1998 a close relationship between al-Qaeda (and Osama bin Laden himself) and the Iraqi government. This of course proves what the Bush administration had a tough time proving before the war. They had some circumstantial evidence the Powell presented to the UN, but it wasn’t very convincing. Now, however, they’ve been vindicated to a good degree, and can now more properly claim that the war in Iraq was, at least in part, a portion of the war on terrorism.

My hunch back then, during Powell’s presentation, was that they had other evidence but didn’t want to tip their hand quite as much as they did with the WMD-related photos and recordings. But they believed they had enough evidence that the connection was there, and that documents like these would show up following the war. That was a serious gamble, but it appears to have paid off.

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