According to an article in The Los Angeles Times on February 16, 2003: “In answer to reporters’ questions linking the al Qaeda threat to the impending Iraq invasion, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, ‘Why now? The answer is that every week that goes by, [Saddam’s] weapons of mass destruction programs become more mature [and] he has relationships with terrorist networks.’ ”
– Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 438