http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040620/ap_on_re_us/sept_11_commission&cid=519&ncid=1478WASHINGTON - Nearing the end of its work, the Sept. 11 commission is inviting Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) to provide any evidence he has that would show links between al-Qaida and Iraq (news - web sites) under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), a panel member said Saturday.
He said the panel also wants to follow up its questioning of President Bush (news - web sites)'s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), and CIA (news - web sites) Director George Tenet.
The Cheney request culminates a week in which the commission said it found no evidence of collaboration between Saddam's Iraq and al-Qaida, while the White House stuck by its position that the two had significant links.
Cheney told the CNBC network that there probably were things about Iraq's links to terrorists that the commission members did not learn during their 14-month investigation.
more