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Report: Questions On Qaeda-Saddam Ties Were “Among The First Presented” To KSM

A great find by the Huffington Post offers additional evidence that the Bushies used torture to try to Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda :

A line buried on page 353 of the July 2004 Select Committee on Intelligence report on pre-Iraq war intelligence reads:

CTC [Counter Terrorist Center] noted that the questions regarding al-Qaida’s ties to the Iraqi regime were among the first presented to senior al-Qaida operational planner Khalid Shaikh Muhammad following his capture.

“Among the first presented”.

Yesterday we rounded up the other evidence that torture was used to bolster the political case for war with Iraq.

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