I was responding to a question of why only one outlet reported a story that was debunked by the Department of Defense the day it was released.
Has Fox News or the Weekly Standard printed a retraction yet?
Has everyone forgotten the address that Collin Powell gave at the UN back on 5 February 2003? In that speech Mr. Powell made the connection then concerning al-Qaida and Iraq.
"We are not surprised that Iraq is harboring Zarqawi and his subordinates. This understanding builds on decades-long experience with respect to ties between Iraq and al-Qaida. Going back to the early and mid-1990s when bin Laden was based in Sudan, an al-Qaida source tells us that Saddam and bin Laden reached an understanding that al-Qaida would no longer support activities against Baghdad. Early al-Qaida ties were forged by secret high-level intelligence service contacts with al-Qaida, secret Iraqi intelligence high-level contacts with al-Qaida.
We know members of both organizations met repeatedly and have met at least eight times at very senior levels since the early 1990s. In 1996, a foreign security service tells us that bin Laden met with a senior Iraqi intelligence official in Khartoum and later met the director of the Iraqi intelligence service."
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/17300.htm Now my question would be why would FOXNews of the Weekly Standard have to give a retraction when the Dept. of State basically said the same thing?