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After the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, there were several investigations of possible collaboration between Saddam Hussein and the terrorists who attacked the building.

Neil Herman, who headed the FBI investigation into the attack, noted that despite Yasin's presence in Baghdad, there was no evidence of Iraqi support for the attack.

" We looked at that rather extensively ," he told CNN terrorism expert Peter Bergen.

" There were no ties to the Iraqi government.

" Bergen writes, " In sum, by the mid -' 90s, the Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York, the F. B. I., the U. S. Attorney's office in the Southern District of New York, the C. I. A., the N. S. C., and the State Department had all found no evidence implicating the Iraqi government in the first Trade Center attack.