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美國防部證實 伊前總統海珊與蓋達組織無關
法新社╱樊劍萍 2008-03-14 09:05
(法新社華盛頓十三日電)美國國防部進行的一項詳細調查證實,已被處決的伊拉克前總統海珊與蓋達恐怖組織沒有直接關係。國防部的這份調查報告揭穿布希總統政府的指控,布希政府宣稱海珊與蓋達組織有關,並且以此為藉口揮軍入侵伊拉克。
美國媒體報導,伊拉克戰爭開始五年以後,國防部的調查報告顯示,研究了六十餘萬份伊拉克的官方文件,並且對海珊的同僚與屬下進行了數以千計小時的審訊後,「發現海珊與蓋達組織並無直接關係。」
美國政府似乎有意隱瞞這份報告的發表,只有在個人以郵件提出申請後才可以獲得這份報告,而非在網站中公布報告,或是對記者發表這份報告。
國防部的一位發言人今天表示,他不知道聯合部隊司令部為何沒有在網站中發表這份報告,可是他否認國防部有意限制這份報告的流傳。
國防部新聞秘書莫瑞爾說:「我們沒有理由這樣做。我想當你們看過這份報告後,就可以瞭解海珊無論在國內或其他中東地區,他和恐怖主義的的關係與納粹如出一轍。」
九一一恐怖攻擊調查委員會與國防部督察長二零零七年發表報告的結論也與此相同,這兩份報告均認為海珊與蓋達組織無關,可是這兩份調查報告都無法獲得如此多的資訊。
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US Defense Dept Study Finds No Al-Qaida Link To Saddam -AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP)--A detailed U.S. Defense Department study confirms there was no direct link between Iraqi ex-leader Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaida network, debunking a claim President George W. Bush's administration used to justify invading Iraq.
The U.S. administration on Thursday tried to bury the release of the study, limiting distribution of the report and making it available only at individual request and by mail - instead of posting it on the Internet or handing it out to reporters.
Coming five years after the start of the war in Iraq, the study of 600,000 official Iraqi documents and thousands of hours of interrogations of former Saddam Hussein colleagues "found no smoking gun (i.e. direct connection) between Saddam's Iraq and al-Qaida," said the study, quoted in U.S. media.
Other reports by the blue-ribbon Sept. 11 commission and the Defense Department's inspector general in 2007 reached the same conclusion but none had access to as much information.
"The Iraqi Perspective Project review of captured Iraqi documents uncovered strong evidence that links the regime of Saddam Hussein to regional and global terrorism" and "state terrorism became a routine tool of State power" but "the predominant target of Iraqi state terror operations were Iraqi citizens," said a summary of the Pentagon study to which ABC News provided a link on its Web site Wednesday.
ABC reported the study initially was to be posted on the U.S. military's Web site accompanied by a background briefing with the study's authors. But the Pentagon scrapped those plans and took the unusual step of offering only to send the report by mail to those who ask for it.
Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and top aides have insisted there were links between Saddam and al-Qaida, citing the alleged ties as a rationale for going to war in Iraq.
"The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al-Qaida is because there was a relationship between Iraq and al- Qaida," Bush told reporters in June 2004.
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