然而根据这份报告，研究人员没有发现萨达姆与进行了2001年9/11恐怖袭击以及针对美国目标的另几次重大袭击的基地组织有任何直接关联。五角大楼发言人怀特曼说，美国军事研究人员以前对所缴获文件进行过至少两次分析，也得出同样的“与基地组织无关”的结论。

"This is part of a huge database, which, as it gets translated is being released," said Bryan Whitman. "It came to the same type of conclusion."

怀特曼说：“这是一个巨大资料库的一部分，信息在翻译的过程中被发表。随后得出了同样的结论。”

Other reports have also reached the same conclusion, including the U.S. September 11th Commission and the Pentagon's Inspector General.

其它报告也已得出同样结论，其中包括美国9/11委员会的报告和五角大楼监察长的报告。

The point is important because an alleged connection between Saddam and al-Qaida was one of the Bush administration's justifications for the invasion of Iraq five years ago, and the toppling of Saddam's regime.

这是一个重要的论点，因为萨达姆涉嫌勾结基地组织正是布什政府5年前出兵伊拉克、推翻萨达姆政权的理由之一。

Foreign Policy Analyst Olga Oliker at the Rand Corporation research organization says it would not have made sense for Saddam to support groups like al-Qaida that were dedicated to overthrowing secular governments like his own. And she says many other reports, both before and after the U.S.-led invasion, have come to the conclusion that he didn't support those groups.

研究机构兰德公司的外交政策分析人士奥利克说，对于萨达姆这种领导非宗教政府的人说来，支持基地组织之类的集团是没有道理的，因为基地组织致力于推翻非宗教政权。她还说，在美国主导出兵伊拉克行动前后，还有许多其它报告也得出了萨达姆并未支持那些恐怖集团的结论。

"I think what's news about it or what's interesting about it is that it is an additional report by a U.S. government agency that refutes an assertion that was made by people in the Bush administration," said Olga Oliker. "It would be really hard to find something that does support what members of the administration had said."

她说：“这次报告的新闻价值或者意义所在是：这是一个美国政府机构再次发表报告否定了布什政府官员作出的一项论断。而支持布什政府观点的论据实在是难以找到的。”

The Pentagon released the three-page executive summary of the Iraqi Perspectives Project on Thursday after reporters complained that the full report's release was being delayed. The Pentagon said the delay is a matter of logistics because the report includes several volumes of material.

五角大楼星期四发表了“伊拉克透视项目”的3页报告摘要。此前媒体曾抱怨该报告全文发表时间的拖延。五角大楼表示，由于后勤方面的原因而推延了报告的发表时间，因为有关报告包括的资料多达数册。

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