In a March 11, 2002, press conference at 10 Downing Street after meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, Vice President Dick Cheney said: “in the context of what we had learned about al Qaeda’s efforts to acquire nuclear, biological, and chemical capability, we needed to be very concerned ‘about the potential marriage, if you will, between a terrorist organization like al Qaeda and those who hold or are proliferating knowledge about weapons of mass destruction.’ ”
– Dick Cheney, In My Time, Page 374