PDB 9/21/01

Murray Waas has an article in the National Journal that exposes more of the duplicity of the Bush Administration about Iraq. The PDB mentioned in the title was deliberately witheld from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and shows that the intelligence community did not consider Saddam to be working with Al-Queda. Here's a snippet:

One of the more intriguing things that Bush was told during the briefing was that the few credible reports of contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda involved attempts by Saddam Hussein to monitor the terrorist group. Saddam viewed Al Qaeda as well as other theocratic radical Islamist organizations as a potential threat to his secular regime.