Richard,
Kind of curious as to why neither the IDA report, nor your far more informative response, including the following documents uncovered by the Iraq Survey Group Document Exploitation effort:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200410%5CNAT20041011a.html
The copies of the original documents, leaked out in 2004 (I didn’t do it.. 
and their english translations clearly indicate that Saddam had charged his Intelligence director with making contact with various “Arabian elements” (Egyptian Islamic Jihad.. etc) to initiate terrorist attacks against AMERICAN targets, INCLUDING SOMALIA, as early as 1992-93:
I shouldn’t have to remind folks that the date of these documents PRECEDE the events that led to “Blackhawk Down” in Mogadishu later in 1993.
While there is was no direct evidence that Iraqi intelligence actually formalized and implemented their plan, it’s clear that they were directed to do so on Saddam’s own order.
Thus, legally speaking, Saddam had undertaken to violate the 1991 cease-fire and re-engage in covert aggression against the US. This despite his legal obligation under the cease-fire accord to have nothing to do with any terrorist groups or activites.
Thought I would share that public document with you all..
And btw, to correct the record, there are more than just a couple of million documents in US hands.. The last count I had heard was upwards of 20 million. And certainly not all of them have been scanned in Harmony since DIA significantly cut the funding for the DocEx operation when the ISG was shut down in April, 2005.
Another problem that is not often mentioned is that when those documents were collected, they were normally scattered and mingled and due to limited time on site, they were just thrown into boxes to be sorted out later.
Thus, the vast majority of those harmony documents consist of “bits and pieces” of various documents and letters. The task of properly matching all of those intermingled pages into complete documents was something that was still a major limiting factor to their usefulness (lacking full informational context) when ISG ceased operations. To imagine your average harmony document, think of trying to complete a puzzle with pieces from 100 different subjects.
I highly doubt that the tremendous resouces necessary to match these documents together has been allocated.
But overall, great article!!
Diogenes
