Originally posted by OneWordAnswer
Contacts between Iraqi intelligence agents and Osama bin Laden when he was in Sudan in the mid-1990's were part of a broad effort by Baghdad to work with organizations opposing the Saudi ruling family, according to a newly disclosed document obtained by the Americans in Iraq.
The task force concluded that the document "appeared authentic," and that it "corroborates and expands on previous reporting" about contacts between Iraqi intelligence and Mr. bin Laden
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/politics/25TERR.html
You're still spinning. And since that link is subscription-only I don't believe you have even read the whole article quoted.
I believe the "document" in question was allegedly found by sources close to Ahmed Chalabi, source of much of the Pentagon's now discredited intelligence on Iraqs non-existent WMD stockpiles, as well as the originator of such demonstrable disinformation as the allegations against British MP George Galloway amongst others. Chalabi had a nice habit of finding "documents" that lent credence to the neo-con war rationalisations but which didn't stand up to later scrutiny.
Having said that, you need to examine the section you have actually quoted, because I don't think it actually says what you think. Iraq was allegedly working with elements in opposition to the House of Saud? This is supposed to be news? Where does it say that Iraq was actively engaging with AQ to target the US? Where does it say that Iraq and AQ actually came to any kind of agreement over cooperation? Surely if this had been the case, ample evidence would have emerged by now, other than one unsubstantiated "document"? There was more than one western intelligence agency engaging with radical islamists during the 1990s, for example in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan; do these cases also stand as evidence of their respective governments being hand in glove with Bin Laden and his ilk?