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CAMBODIA-PHNOM PENH-PEACEKEEPERS-CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

(230221) -- PHNOM PENH, Feb. 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Joseph Scheuer (C), United Nations resident coordinator to Cambodia, hands over a UN flag to a Cambodian peacekeeper in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Feb. 21, 2023. Cambodia on Tuesday dispatched a new batch of 98 peacekeepers to join a United Nations peacekeeping operation in the war-torn Central African Republic, officials said. (Photo by Ly Lay/Xinhua)

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CIA saw no al-Qaida-Iraq link before invasion: ex-agent

WASHINGTON, United States - Michael Scheuer, a senior adviser to the head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Bin Laden Department until November 2004, has told Kyodo News the CIA had concluded two months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 there was no connection between the President Saddam Hussein's government and the al-Qaida terrorist network.

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CIA saw no al-Qaida-Iraq link before invasion: ex-agent

WASHINGTON, United States - Michael Scheuer, a senior adviser to the head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Bin Laden Department until November 2004, has told Kyodo News the CIA had concluded two months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 there was no connection between the President Saddam Hussein's government and the al-Qaida terrorist network. (Kyodo)