More Stephen Hayes

Today National Review Online has an online interview with Stephen Hayes, author of The Connection: How al Qaeda's Cooperation with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America. Most notable fact from Hayes: the Clinton Administration itself believed that Saddam had intimate connections with al-Qaeda. Hayes also traces the Saddam/al-Qaeda links mentioned in the press in the late 1990s; in contrast to the media's stock-in-phrase that al-Qaeda would not work with Saddam because he was secular and they are religious nutters (a crock if ever one existed).