{"id":1604,"date":"2003-07-11T12:08:49","date_gmt":"2003-07-11T19:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/07\/saddams-osama-connection\/"},"modified":"2003-07-11T12:08:49","modified_gmt":"2003-07-11T19:08:49","slug":"saddams-osama-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/11\/saddams-osama-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddam&#8217;s Osama connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tJudge Gilbert Merrit has been given <a title=\"Document links Saddam, bin Laden - Wednesday, 06\/25\/03\" href=\"http:\/\/tennessean.com\/nation-world\/archives\/03\/06\/34908297.shtml?Element_ID=34908297\">a document<\/a> naming Saddam&#8217;s chief contact with Osama:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The document shows that an Iraqi intelligence officer, Abid Al-Karim Muhamed Aswod, assigned to the Iraq embassy in Pakistan, is &#8221;responsible for the coordination of activities with the Osama bin Laden group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The document shows that it was written over the signature of Uday Saddam Hussein, the son of Saddam Hussein.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The judge, a Democrat serving on the federal appeals court in Nashville who&#8217;s currently in Iraq creating a court system, says he believes the document is genuine. We believe it&#8217;s the smoking gun.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/010446.php\">Instapundit<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Gilbert Merrit has been given a document naming Saddam&#8217;s chief contact with Osama: The document shows that an Iraqi intelligence officer, Abid Al-Karim Muhamed Aswod, assigned to the Iraq embassy in Pakistan, is &#8221;responsible for the coordination of activities with the Osama bin Laden group.&#8221; The document shows that it was written over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/11\/saddams-osama-connection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saddam&#8217;s Osama connection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-pS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}