9/11 Report Is Said to Dismiss Iraq-Qaeda Alliance

NY TIMES

9/11 Report Is Said to Dismiss Iraq-Qaeda Alliance
By PHILIP SHENON

Published: July 12, 2004

WASHINGTON, July 11 - The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is nearing completion of a final, probably unanimous report that will stand by the conclusions of the panel's staff and largely dismiss White House theories both about a close working relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda and about possible Iraqi involvement in Sept. 11, commission officials said.

The report, which is expected to be made public several days before the panel's mandated deadline of July 26, will also probably be unwelcome at the White House because it will document management failures at senior levels of the Bush administration that kept the government from acting aggressively on intelligence warnings in the spring and summer of 2001 of an imminent, catastrophic terrorist attack, the officials said.

Full story at: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/politics/12panel.html?th