The Magazine   Why is the Bush administration silent on the new
Pentagon report?  Mar 24, 2008, Vol. 13, No. 27 • By WILLIAM
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Text Alerts   Relying on a leak of the executive summary, ABC
News reported that the study was "the first official
acknowledgment from the U.S. military that there is no evidence
Saddam had ties to Al Qaeda." There followed a brief item in the
Washington Post that ran under the headline "Study Discounts
Hussein, Al-Qaeda Link." The New York Times announced: "Study
Finds No Qaeda-Hussein Tie." NPR agreed: "Study Finds No Link
Between Saddam, bin Laden."  And the Bush administration reacted
with an apparently guilty silence.   But don't take our word for
it: Go to and read the 59 pages of analysis for yourself. You'll
see, in the words of the authors, "strong evidence that links
the regime of Saddam Hussein to regional and global terrorism."
And, from the report's conclusion:   Take a look also at the
documents showing links bet