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Check this gem out ...
It’s from a larger article by CBS news that is more or less a hatchet job against Chalabi (and understandably so, IMO). All the same, sometimes you do have to dig through a heck of a lot of shit to find a diamond ...
One document, which [Ahmed] Chalabi says is noted “Top Secret,” is dated on March 28, 1992. Chalabi says it’s a document written by Iraq’s secret intelligence service, the Mukhabarat, listing scores of its agents in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. “On Page 14 of this document it says here, ‘The Saudi Osama bin Laden,’" says Chalabi. “Agents whom they have re-contacted by 1992 ... this is his name.”

“How so you know it’s an authentic document? How do you know it’s real,” asked Stahl. “The people who initialed the document before it goes on: one, two three, four signatures. We know who these people are. It’s very difficult for anyone to forge the document,” says Chalabi. “You check it. You have the piece of paper in your hand. You check it.” 60 Minutes checked it out with the defense intelligence agency, which believes the document is authentic – but of little significance. Why? It doesn’t spell out what the relationship with Osama bin Laden was, or what he did, if anything, for the Iraqis.
Actually, I’d call it extremely significant. 1991-92, if you’ll recall, was back when Binny was still POed at the Soddies for letting the US operate in the Magic Kingdom - he initially wanted the Afghan Arabs to fight Saddam in Kuwait rather than the Great Satan and by all accounts, his collaboration with Saddam didn’t start until he showed up in Sudan and Hassan Turabi convinced him to adopt a more ecumenical mindset. So Binny’s name on a list of Iraqi agents, even back in the early 1990s is, IMO, extremely significant.
Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-03-08
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=27643