BY WARREN P. STROBEL, JONATHAN S. LANDAY AND JOHN WALCOTT
Senior U.S. officials now say that there never was any evidence that Hussein's secular police state and Osama bin Laden's Islamic terror network were in league. At most, there were occasional meetings.Do the meetings have to be "regular" for the link to be legit?
...The structure of the letter, experts said, suggested Zarqawi considered himself an independent operator and not a part of bin Laden's organization.The structure suggested that, huh? So a letter from a terrorist in Iraq asking Al Qaida for help is now, somehow, evidence that there is no connection?