Saddam Hussein's Iraq cooperated with jihadist groups, including al-Qaeda affiliates.(The Week)(Brief article)

Saddam Hussein's Iraq cooperated with jihadist groups, including al-Qaeda affiliates. So concludes the Iraqi Perspectives Project, a Pentagon-commissioned analysis based on 600,000 documents captured by coalition forces since the March 2003 invasion. Why then do the mainstream media report, essentially, that the study found no indication of an operational relationship between Saddam's regime and al-Qaeda? In small compass, it is the story of the war: Members of the intelligence community who are opposed to administration policy selectively leak a misleading version of the evidence to likeminded journalists; they, in turn, breathlessly announce that the war's ...