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How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America
HarperCollins
June 2004
224 pages ISBN: 0060746734 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
In the wake of 9/11 no one knew when the next attack would
come, or where it would come from. America's enemies seemed
gathered on all sides, and for several nerve-racking months,
we lived in fear that the perpetrators might be plotting
another action or, worse, that our most dangerous enemies --
al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's murderous regime in Iraq --
could be banding together against us. The Bush administration and CIA director George Tenet warned
against complacency and pointed to growing indications that
al Qaeda and Iraq were in league. But their case was
undercut by unnamed intelligence officials, skeptical
politicians, and a compliant media. So America relaxed. A
comforting consensus settled in: Osama bin Laden was an
impassioned fundamentalist, Saddam a secular autocrat. The
two would never, could never, work together. ABC News
reported that there was no connection between them, and the
New York Times said so too, and pretty soon just about
everyone agreed. Just about everyone was wrong. In The Connection, Stephen Hayes draws on CIA debriefings,
top-secret memos from our national intelligence agencies,
and interviews with Iraqi military leaders and Washington
insiders to demonstrate that Saddam and bin Laden not only
could work together, they did -- a curious relationship that
stretches back more than a decade and may include
collaboration on terrorist acts, chemical-weapons training,
and sheltering some of the world's most wanted radicals. Stephen Hayes's bombshell Weekly Standard piece on this
topic was cited by Vice President Cheney as the "best source
of information" about the Saddam-al Qaeda connections. Now
Hayes delves even deeper, exposing the inner workings of
America's deadliest opponents and providing a clear-eyed
corrective to reams of underreported, politicized, and just
plain wrong information. The Connection is both a gripping snapshot of the War on
Terror and a case study in how bureaucratic assumptions and
media arrogance can put us all at risk.
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