9/25/2001

Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul “Wolfowitz is said to be wedded to the position that Mr. bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network could not have carried out the [9/11] attack without Saddam Hussein’s help, the [senior Bush Administration] officials said.”

 – Elaine Sciolino, “U.S. Prepares to Brief NATO on Strategy to Fight bin Laden,” The New York Times, Sep. 25, 2001