In a CIA senior executive memorandum from September 13, 2002, according to a ‘well-placed’ source connected to bin Laden: ” ‘The Director of Iraqi Intelligence, Mani-abd-al-Rashid-al-Tikriti, met privately with bin Laden at his farm in Sudan in July 1996. Tikriti used an Iraqi delegation traveling to Khartoum to discuss bilateral cooperation as his ‘cover’ for his own entry into Sudan to meet with bin Laden and [Sudan’s foreign minister] Hassan al-Turabi. The Iraqi intelligence chief and two other IIS [Iraqi Intelligence Service] officers met at bin Laden’s farm and discussed bin Laden’s request for IIS technical assistance in: (a) making letter and parcel bombs; (b) making bombs which could be placed on aircraft and detonated by changes in barometric pressure; and (c) making false passport [sic]. Bin Laden specifically requested that [Brigadier Salim al Ahmed], Iraqi intelligence’s premier explosives maker–especially skilled in making car bombs–remain with him in Sudan. The Iraqi intelligence chief instructed Salim to remain in Sudan with bin Laden as long as required.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 84