    Sentence’ 1: Bin. Ladin. was also willing to” explore  possibilities for: cooperation with Iraq. ‘even though  iraq’s' dictator, Saddam: Hussein, ‘had never had.an  islamist-agenda-save for.his opportunistic pose as  ‘a defender of.the faithful against ‘Crusaders during  the Gulf War of 1991,    Sentence 2 Bin Laden had:no interest.in aligning  with any mideast ‘countries.    