An amateurish error. Sorry! Osama bin Laden was a CIA operative in 1984, not 1989. He returned from Afganistan to Saudi Arabia in 1988, and founded al-Qaida in 1989, according to this MSNBC article. Bin Laden comes home to roost <www.msnbc.com>

 
And I'll admit that the photo (1405-c3) of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand in Baghdad doesn't belong there. It's hazy and too small to be in the ''foreground.'' I'm glad that Google enabled me to find this photo anyway.

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Ed, the Imperial British made a mistake when they neglected to form a nation called Kurdistan when they carved up the region. Oh well. I suppose the Iraqi Kurds will be better off under the Yanks than they have been under Saddam.