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Iraq Was Distraction, Clark Says.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2004

The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 13--BISMARCK, N.D. -- Retired Army General Wesley K. Clark said yesterday that the Bush administration, distracted by plans to invade Iraq, discounted intelligence on Al Qaeda handed over by outgoing Clinton administration officials in 2000, leaving security gaps that made it easier for Osama bin Laden's terrorist agents to strike on Sept. 11, 2001.

Clark's charges follow public statements from former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who, in a forthcoming book, says the Bush administration had been planning an invasion of Iraq since its first days in the White House.

But Clark's accusation that Bush bears responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks has increasingly become the...

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