A leading US Democrat and presidential hopeful has said in a press conference that al-Qaida was not connected to the 11 September attacks. Speaking in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday, Wesley Clark said that the US president took the country to war for party-ideological reasons. The former four star general accused George Bush of invading Iraq without adequate reason or justification. "I think it was a strategic mistake and wrong for America." Clark added that nothing said by the intelligence services to date had proven any connection between the Islamist organisation and the destruction of the World Trade Towers. Remarks by CIA chief George Tenet did not prove "that al-Qaida was involved in 9/11. I did not believe then that al-Qaida was invovled in 9/11 ... I do not believe it now."
Al-Jazeera may be messing with the quotes here, but this puts him into pure kook territory if it’s true ...
| He said later that he misspoke, that he mentioned Saddam Hussein. I give him a pass on this one. |
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