“A senior Israeli official said today [October 26, 2001] that the country’s intelligence services had not come up with any evidence linking Iraq to those [9/11] attacks, or to the anthrax scare in the United States. ‘We don’t see any evidence of Al Qaeda in Iraq,’ the official said. ‘Not as a base, not as financial support.’ ”
– Patrick E. Tyler and John Tagliabue, “Czechs Confirm Iraqi Agent Met With Terror Ringleader,” The New York Times, Oct. 27, 2001