Rumsfeld: No evidence to link Saddam with Al Qaeda
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WASHINGTON - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has confessed that he had seen no âstrong, hard evidenceâ linking former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with Al Qaeda, backing away from a key justification for the US-led war on Iraq.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - U.S. Defense Secretary   Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday there was no way to measure if   more Islamic extremists were being created than killed in   American-led operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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WASHINGTON - Il segretario alla Difesa americano Donald Rumsfeld ha ammesso che non ci sono &quot;prove formali&quot; di un legame tra il leader di Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, el&#39;ex dittatore iracheno Saddam Hussein.
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Revelation that neither country foresaw Iraq insurgency undermines British blame of Rumsfeld
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One report contradicted Bush administrationÂs assertions that were provided as evidence of a close relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
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The Saudi government says it has no evidence Osama Bin Laden is dead after media reports from France.
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A statement attributed to al Qaeda and posted on the Internet on Tuesday denied Islamists had killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, saying Lebanese, Syrian or Israeli intelligence were behind the attack.
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An al Qaeda-led group in Iraq said on Monday it had killed three U.S. soldiers after capturing them last month but provided no evidence apart from pictures of ID cards of two of the men.
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A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab  al-Zarqawi said it did not carry out twin suicide car bombings  in Iraq's main Shi'ite holy cities on Sunday, according to an  Internet statement dated Thursday.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  said Tuesday he was misunderstood when he stated hours earlier  that he knew of no "strong, hard evidence" linking Saddam  Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda.
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The U.S. military and Iraqi government denied reports on Thursday that al Qaeda's leader in Iraq had been killed in a raid but said DNA tests would be conducted on bodies recovered after the attack to make sure.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday said he believes Saddam Hussein&#39;s Iraq and al-Qaida had ties, backtracking from a statement a day earlier that he had &quot;not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two.
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The U.S. military said on Thursday the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was still very much alive, denying reports by some Iraqi politicians that he had been tracked down and killed.
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MANNHEIM, GERMANY - A US military tribunal refused to let lawyers question Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and one of his key deputys in the case against an Army reservist charged with abusing inmates at Baghdad&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison.
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The United States military said on   Wednesday it had found no evidence that the Iraqi government   and its police were behind Shi'ite sectarian death squads   murdering Sunnis in Baghdad.
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A Pentagon investigation has criticized civilian Pentagon officials for conducting their own intelligence analysis to find links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.
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Suspicions have been proven correct. Iraq did not have any weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) when the US and allies invaded in March 2003, nor did it have the capability to produce WMDs