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> Washington -- Vice President Dick Cheney revived two controversial assertions about the war in Iraq Thursday, declaring there is "overwhelming evidence" that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with al Qaeda and that two trailers discovered after the war are proof of Iraq's biological weapons programs.
ワシントン -- ディック・チェイニー副大統領は木曜日(22日)に、サダム・フセインがアル・カイーダとの関係を持っており、戦争の後に発見された２台のトレーラーがイラクの生物兵器プログラムの証拠であるという「圧倒的な証拠」があると宣言し、イラク戦争に関する２つの論争の的になっている主張を復活させた。
> "There's overwhelming evidence there was a connection between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government," Cheney said in an interview on National Public Radio.
He cited "documents indicating that a guy named Abdul Rachman Yasin, who was part of the team who attacked the World Trade Center in 1993, when he arrived back in Iraq was put on the payroll and provided a house, safe harbor and sanctuary," Cheney said. "I'm very confident there was an established relationship there."
「アル・カイーダとイラク政府の関係を示す圧倒的な証拠がそこにある。」チェイニーはナショナル・パブリック・ラジオ上のインタビューで言いました。
「1993年に世界貿易センターを攻撃したチームメンバーだったアブドゥール・ラシュマン・ヤシンと呼ばれる男に対して、彼がイラクに帰り着く時、雇用人を装い、家、安全な港および避難所を提供したことを示すドキュメント」を引用した、とチェイニーは言いました。「私は、確立した関係がそこにあったと非常に確信しています。」
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/01/23/MNG3M4G9GV1.DTL
San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, January 23, 2004 Page A - 3
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Cheney claims al Qaeda link to Hussein
He also says regime had program for prohibited weapons
Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times Friday, January 23, 2004
Washington -- Vice President Dick Cheney revived two controversial assertions about the war in Iraq Thursday, declaring there is "overwhelming evidence" that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with al Qaeda and that two trailers discovered after the war are proof of Iraq's biological weapons programs.
The vice president stood by positions that others in the administration have largely abandoned in recent months, as preliminary analysis of the trailers has been called into question, and new evidence -- including a document found with Hussein when he was captured -- cast doubt on theories that Iraq and al Qaeda collaborated.
His comments were seen as stoking new controversy over Iraq just as the vice president is embarking on a trip to an economic summit in Switzerland and meetings with European officials, some of them fierce opponents of the war who have been dismissive of U.S. claims about the threat posed by Iraq.
Cheney has consistently espoused the most hawkish views among senior administration officials. His statements Thursday suggest he intends to maintain that tone as he takes a more high-profile role in President Bush's re- election campaign.
"There's overwhelming evidence there was a connection between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government," Cheney said in an interview on National Public Radio.
He cited "documents indicating that a guy named Abdul Rachman Yasin, who was part of the team who attacked the World Trade Center in 1993, when he arrived back in Iraq was put on the payroll and provided a house, safe harbor and sanctuary," Cheney said. "I'm very confident there was an established relationship there."
That assertion seemed at odds with the recent words of other senior administration officials, including Secretary of State Colin Powell, who said in an interview earlier this month that he had "not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence" of connections between Iraq and al Qaeda.
In his State of the Union address Tuesday, Bush made no claim that actual chemical, biological or nuclear weapons would be found in Iraq. Instead, he referred to "weapons-of-mass-destruction-related program activities."
U.S. intelligence officials agree that there were contacts between Hussein's agents and al Qaeda dating back a decade, and that certain operatives with ties to al Qaeda have found haven at various times in Iraq. But no intelligence has surfaced to suggest a deeper relationship, and other information turned up recently has suggested that any significant ties were unlikely.
Captured Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has told U.S. interrogators that al Qaeda rejected the idea of any working relationship with Iraq, which was seen by the network as a corrupt, secular regime. When Hussein was captured last month, he was found with a document warning his supporters to be wary of working with foreign fighters.
"There's nothing I have seen or read that backs (Cheney) up," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, who called Cheney's remarks on radio Thursday "perplexing."
Cheney also argued that the main thrust of the administration's case for war -- the claim that Iraq was assembling weapons of mass destruction -- had been validated by the discovery of two flat-bed trailers outfitted with tanks and other equipment.
"We've found a couple of semi-trailers at this point which we believe were in fact part of (a WMD) program," Cheney said. "I would deem that conclusive evidence, if you will, that he did in fact have programs for weapons of mass destruction."
That view is at odds with the judgment of the government's lead weapons inspector, David Kay, who said in an interim report last October that "we have not yet been able to corroborate the existence of a mobile biological weapons production effort."
A CIA report on the trucks said their "most likely use" was for biological weapons, while other scientists who have studied them in Baghdad, including the late British scientist David Kelly, doubted that finding.
Cheney is seen as among the most ardent hawks in the Bush administration and the one with the most influence with the president. His role in assembling the case for war has been controversial.
Since the war, as the administration has sought to deflect charges that it exaggerated the Iraqi threat, Cheney has been among the most reluctant to give ground. On occasion, this has created public relations problems for the White House.
After Cheney implied in a television interview last September that Iraq was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush was forced to acknowledge days later that the administration "had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved."
The White House had no comment Thursday on Cheney's remarks.
The Washington Post contributed to this report.
©2004 San Francisco Chronicle
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