Intelligence Docs Confirm Iraq/Al-Qaeda Contacts

This story is being hawked as an embarrassment for the Russian government, whose ambassador apparently gave Sadaam a good deal of intelligence on America right before the Iraq invasion. But what I find much more interesting is the number of docs which detail a slowly growing relationship between Sadaam Hussein and Al Qaeda, and an agreement in principle to cooperate on missions against the US and US interests abroad. Hmmm... Perhaps the link between 9/11 and Iraq is a lot stronger than some would like us to believe.