“On August 3, 2002, a CIA senior executive intelligence briefing summarized in the [Undersecretary of Defense Douglas] Feith memo [on October 27, 2003] noted that reports of al Qaeda regrouping in Iraq ‘are consistent with satellite imagery showing increased activity since last fall near a facility in Sargat, near Khurmal, at which al Qaeda associates and [Kurdish Sunni Islamist group] Ansar al Islam may be producing lethal toxins.’ ”
– Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 164