Rumsfeld says he was misunderstood on al-Qaeda, Saddam connections
AFP, October, 2004
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has issued a statement saying he was misunderstood in a speech in New York when he said he had seen no "strong, hard evidence" linking former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda.
"A question I answered today at an appearance before the Council on Foreign Relations regarding ties between Al-Qaeda and Iraq regrettably was misunderstood," he said in a statement released late Monday by the Pentagon after Rumsfeld's session with foreign policy experts in New York.
"I have acknowledged since September 2002 that there were ties between Al-Qaeda and Iraq," he said.
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He added that his assessment had been based on points provided by former CIA director George Tenet.
In a speech and a question and answer session at the Council on ...
