e/Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations

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has gloss	eng: Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations were made by some U.S. Government officials who claimed that a highly secretive relationship existed between former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the radical Islamist militant organization Al-Qaeda from 1992 to 2003, specifically through a series of meetings reportedly involving the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS). basing the administration's rationale for war, in part, on this allegation . The consensus of intelligence experts has been that these contacts never led to an operational relationship, and that consensus is backed up by reports from the independent 9/11 Commission and by declassified Defense Department reports as well as by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, whose 2006 report of Phase II of its investigation into prewar intelligence reports concluded that there was no evidence of ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.
lexicalization	eng: Saddam hussein and al qaeda
lexicalization	eng: Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations
lexicalization	eng: Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda
instance of	e/911 conspiracy theory

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Portuguese
has gloss	por: As Alegações de vínculos entre a al-Qaeda e Saddam Hussein foram feitas por alguns oficiais do Governo dos Estados Unidos que afirmavam que existiam uma relação altamente secreta entre o ex-presidente do Iraque Saddam Hussein e a organização terrorista Al-Qaeda, do militante islâmico Osama bin Laden de 1992 a 2003, especificamente através de uma série de reuniões de informações envolvendo o serviço de inteligência iraquiano (IIS). No início de 2002, Bush começou a pedir publicamente por uma mudança de regime no Iraque, alegando ter provas de que o governo de Saddam tinha ligações com grupos terroristas, principalmente a Al-Qaeda, o grupo extremista responsável pelos atentados de 11 de setembro de 2001. Além disso, o presidente afirmou que o país estava criando armas de destruição em massa e por isso não cooperava com inspetores da ONU.
lexicalization	por: Alegações de vínculos entre a al-Qaeda e Saddam Hussein

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