The connection : how al Qaeda's collaboration with Saddam Hussein has endangered America / Stephen F. Hayes.

Ch. 1. Case open : who is Ahmed Hikmat Shakir? -- Ch. 2. A skeptical press -- Ch. 3. Saddam finds religion -- Ch. 4. Saddam and Osama strike back -- Ch. 5. A home for terror -- Ch. 6. "The father and grandfather of terrorists" -- Ch. 7. Clinton's "cloud of fear" -- Ch. 8. The connection makes the papers -- Ch. 9. What happened in Prague? -- Ch. 10. Act globally -- Ch. 11. Ansar al Islam -- Ch. 12. See no evil.

"In The Connection, Stephen Hayes draws on CIA debriefings, top-secret memos from our national intelligence agencies, and interviews with Iraqi military leaders and Washington insiders to demonstrate that Saddam and bin Laden not only could work together, they did - a curious relationship that stretches back more than a decade and may include collaboration on terrorist acts, chemical-weapons training, and sheltering some of the world's most wanted radicals." "Stephen Hayes's bombshell Weekly Standard piece on this topic was cited by Vice President Cheney as the "best source of information" about the Saddam-al Qaeda connections. Now Hayes delves even deeper, exposing the inner workings of America's deadliest opponents and providing a corrective to reams of underreported, politicized, and just plain wrong information."--BOOK JACKET.