Original sentence: Many in the intelligence community are skeptical about whether such meetings, if they took place, ever resulted in any meaningful relationship.Many of the claims of actual collaboration seem to have originated with people associated with the Iraqi National Congress whose credibility has been questioned.Some sources allege that several meetings between top Iraqi operatives and bin Laden took place, but these claims have been disputed by many other sources, including most of the original intelligence agencies that investigated these sources
Edited sentence: Several meetings between top Iraqi operatives and bin Laden took place in 1994 and 1998, and while the existance of these meetings is generally accepted, many in the intelligence community are skeptical about whether these resulted in any meaningful relationship.Some of the claims of actual collaboration seem to have originated with people associated with the Iraqi National Congress whose credibility has been questioned