  More ties between Iraq and al qaeda the " mainstream media"  continues to ignore CBS,  CNN &  NBC Skip Iraq Outreach to bin Laden Over Saudi Arabia Spiked by CBS,  CNN and NBC again.  Exactly a week after the CBS Evening News,  CNN’ s NewsNight and the NBC Nightly News ignored Russian President Vladimir Putin’ s disclosure that Russian intelligence warned the Bush administration after 9- 11 that Saddam Hussein planned to attack inside the U. S.  the very same newscasts managed to skip over a Friday front page New York Times story about how top operatives in Hussein’
s regime approached bin Laden in the mid- 1990s about working together against the Saudi ruling family and foreigners in Saudi Arabia.  Friday’ s CBS Evening News,  however,  had time for hyperventilation about how “ partisan bickering in Washington”  supposedly reached “ a new low as the Vice President lets loose with. 'the' four- letter word"  and for a story blaming the war in Iraq for a polio outbreak in Nigeria.
