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Perv sez Iraqi embassy in Pak not linked to al-Qaeda
"Lies! All lies!"Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday denied the US claims that Iraq's embassy in Islamabad served as a liaising point between Baghdad and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. Powell on Wednesday accused Iraq of harbouring a variety of terrorists, including at least one senior member of al-Qaeda, Abu Mussab al Zarqawi, who is accused of ordering the murder of a US diplomat in Jordan last year. "From the late 1990s until 2001, the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan played the role of liaison to the al-Qaeda organisation," Powell told a special meeting of the UN Security Council as he outlined Washington's case for war against Baghdad. "Certainly not. We have mullahs who take care of that sort of thing..." Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-02-07 |
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