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Watch a 1999 ABC News Clip Connecting OBL & Saddam

(GO TO THE LINKED PAGE AND CLICK ON THIS PICTURE OF OBL & SADDAM AND THE REALMEDIA VIDEO CLIP OF THE ABC NEWS REPORT WILL OPEN. IT IS ABOUT 2:40 LONG.)
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040617.asp#1
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040617.asp#1
http://www.mediaresearch.org/VideoBias/vidbias.asp

(GO TO THE LINKED PAGE AND CLICK ON THIS PICTURE OF OBL & SADDAM AND THE REALMEDIA VIDEO CLIP OF THE ABC NEWS REPORT WILL OPEN. IT IS ABOUT 2:40 LONG.)
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040617.asp#1
Hayes also cited a January 1999 ABC story and, utilizing the MRC video archive, I tracked it down. The above-quoted MacVicar piece aired Thursday, January 14, 1999 on the short-lived ABC prime time magazine program, Crime and Justice. This one-topic edition, which featured John Miller’s interview in Afghanistan with Osama bin Laden, carried the title, “Target America: The Terrorist War.” Anchor Cynthia McFadden’s plug for the hour predicted the danger ahead: “Tonight, an exclusive ABC News interview with the man who declared war on the United States: Terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. His loyal foot soldiers are even here in the U.S., hidden among us, awaiting his call to deadly action.”
Sheila MacVicar, who a short time later jumped to CNN, and I believe she has recently departed from CNN, provided an overview of the bin Laden-Hussein relationship: “Saddam Hussein has a long history of harboring terrorists. Carlos the Jackal, Abu Nidal, Abu Abbas, the most notorious terrorists of their era, all found shelter and support at one time in Baghdad. Intelligence sources say bin Laden's long relationship with the Iraqis began as he helped Sudan's fundamentalist government in their efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
“Three weeks after the bombing [by the U.S. in Sudan], on August 31, bin Laden reaches out to his friends in Iraq and Sudan. [over video of Iraqi man cheek to cheek with Sudanese men] Iraq's Vice President arrives in Khartoum to show his support for the Sudanese after the U.S. attack. ABC News has learned that during these meetings, senior Sudanese officials, acting on behalf of bin Laden, ask if Saddam Hussein would grant him asylum.
“Iraq was, indeed, interested. ABC News has learned that in December, an Iraqi intelligence chief, named Farouk Hijazi, now Iraq's ambassador to Turkey, made a secret trip to Afghanistan to meet with bin Laden. Three intelligence agencies tell ABC News they cannot be certain what was discussed, but almost certainly, they say, bin Laden has been told he would be welcome in Baghdad.”
A CNN-posted story by MacVicar with a picture of her: CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News
A fan site, apparently, that I came across via Google: home.wanadoo.nl
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040617.asp#1
http://www.mediaresearch.org/VideoBias/vidbias.asp