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(CNSNews.com) - There is no connection between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks, Sen. John Edwards insisted several times Tuesday night. But Vice President Dick Cheney said the Kerry-Edwards team is missing the larger point about state-sponsored terrorism. "I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11," Cheney responded. "But there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror. And the point is that [Iraq's] the place where you're most likely to see the terrorists come together with weapons of mass destruction, the deadly technologies that Saddam Hussein had developed and used over the years." Cheney said the...

The brutal beheading of American Nick Berg in Iraq should refocus our attention on Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism. While some continue to claim that Hussein did not back terror, many believe that he did — and the evidence supports the latter. • Uber-terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the man whom the CIA believes murdered Berg and is the mastermind behind much of today's savage terrorism in Iraq and surrounding countries, is a case in point. He previously ran an Islamist terrorist-training camp in Afghanistan. Zarqawi was wounded during America's Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001 and fled to Iraq when U.S.-led...