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| Perv sez Iraqi embassy in Pak not linked to al-Qaeda |
| 2003-02-07 |
| "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 |