Just four months after the Sept. 11 attacks, then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz dashed off a memo to a senior Pentagon colleague, demanding action to identify connections between Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime and al Qaeda.
Wolfowitz's memo, released Thursday, is included in a recently declassified report by the Pentagon's inspector general.
The memo marked the first days of what would become a controversial, yearlong Pentagon project (Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense) to convince the most senior levels of the Bush administration that Hussein and al Qaeda were linked -- a conclusion that was hotly disputed by U.S. intelligence agencies at the time and discredited in the years since.
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