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Sunday, June 1, 2003 4:01 p.m. EDT
Wolfowitz Bombshell: Saddam Behind 9/11 Attacks and OKC Bombing

Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, said by some to be the
architect of America's war on Iraq, reportedly suspects that Saddam Hussein
played a significant role in the three worst terrorist attacks ever on the
U.S. - the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the 1995
Oklahoma City bombing and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Discussing his soon-to-be-released Vanity Fair interview with the top
Pentagon official, Sam Tanenhaus told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley on
Saturday: "Wolfowitz states that there's a very strong connection, he's
convinced, between Saddam and the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
This is a very controversial idea and yet Wolfowitz embraces it and has for
quite some time."

The Vanity Fair writer added, "Also I was told by a source very close to him
that Wolfowitz entertains the possibility that Saddam was involved in the
Oklahoma City bombing in 1995."

While a media firestorm has erupted over Wolfowitz's comments suggesting that
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction played a smaller role in the decision to
go to war than previously thought, Tanenhaus said the press has missed the
real news in his report.

"[There are] allegations he made or that others close to him have made that,
to me, are much more startling," the author told WABC's Crowley. "That's what
I thought was going to be the news [coming out of this interview]."

In a transcript on the interview released by the Pentagon, Wolfowitz also
indicates that he suspects Saddam was involved in the 9/11 attacks.

Asked why Iraq was at the top of the U.S.'s list when it came to taking
action in the war on terror, Wolfowitz told Tanenhaus that Saddam's weapons
of mass destruction played a role, but then added:

"Plus the fact, which seems to go unremarked in most places, that Saddam
Hussein was the only international figure other than Osama bin Laden who
praised the attacks of September 11."

Discussing the secretary's comments on MSNBC on Friday, Tanenhaus said that
the reason Saddam's role in 9/11 never became the centerpiece of the Bush
administration's rationale for war was because there was no consensus on the
issue.

"The secretary himself has said both in his interview with me and at other
times, particularly in the interview with me, that there were sharp
disagreement[s] about, for instance, Saddam's involvement in other acts of
terrorism," Tanenhaus explained. He cited the "World Trade Center in '93 and
in 2001, September 11, and other connections with al Qaeda."

President Bush's supporters have been mystified over why the administration
never spotlighted the claims of two Iraqi defectors, who, two months after
the 9/11 attacks, detailed to U.S. intelligence evidence linking Saddam to
training in 9/11-style airline hijacking operations.

Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Harold Baer awarded the families of two
World Trade Center victims $104 million based on evidence linking the 9/11
attacks to Salman Pak, a terrorist training camp located 25 miles south of
Baghdad.

Carl Limbacher