Tuesday, June 22, 2004 |
21:14 - Old, senile media
http://www.instapundit.com/archives/016151.php
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Stupid CNN, for keeping archives of its old news stories just lying around for anyone to see.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has offered asylum to bin Laden, who openly supports Iraq against the Western powers.
Via InstaPundit, who also has a similar story from The Guardian, also in 1999.
Apparently that whole "Bin Laden hates Saddam because he's secular, and al Qaeda would never work with Iraq for that reason" thing was only a very recent falling-out.
But then we believed all kinds of crazy stuff back in the Nineties, right? Like dot-coms were good long-term investment opportunities, Beavis & Butt-head would last forever, and Saddam was a bad guy who merited removal.
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