The Iraq War retrospective Thread

[kandrathe]

Edit: I clearly mistook your meaning on my first post. This contention has not been borne out by post-war analysis, which has revealed hostility, not cooperation, between Iraq and Ansar Al-Islam.

Where do you find that?

Beginning in 1999, Iraq's intelligence service began providing "financial and moral support" for a small radical Islamist Kurdish sect the report does not name. A Kurdish Islamist group called Ansar al Islam in 2002 would try to assassinate the regional prime minister in the eastern Kurdish region, Barham Salih. Report Details Saddam's Terrorist Ties

P.S. Here is a link to FAS, which has the actual document link