10/9/2002

“American officials have recently documented contacts between Iraqi and Al Qaeda agents, as well as ‘solid evidence of the presence in Iraq of Al Qaeda members, including some that have been in Baghdad,’ according to CIA director George Tenet [in a letter he sent to Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on October 9, 2002].”

 – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 23