From a December 3, 2001, article in USA Today about an Iraq/al Qaeda connection: ” ‘We were convinced that money from Iraq was going to bin Laden, who was then sending it to places they wanted it to go,’ said Stanley Bedlington, a senior CIA analyst who monitored bin Laden in Sudan. In 1994, according to a report in USA Today, the CIA obtained intelligence that one of those places was Algeria, where Iraq was using bin Laden to funnel money to Islamic terrorists who sought to overthrow that country’s government.”
– Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 24