Defense official backtracks on al-Qaida-Iraq comments

Saturday, September 13, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon's No. 2 official retreated Friday from his assertion that key lieutenants of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden are plotting with Saddam Hussein loyalists to kill Americans in Iraq.

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