http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/768rwsbj.asp Saddam's Ambassador to al Qaeda From the March 1, 2004 issue: An Iraqi prisoner details Saddam's links to Osama bin Laden's terror network. by Jonathan Schanzer 03/01/2004, Volume 009, Issue 24 A RECENTLY INTERCEPTED MESSAGE from Iraq-based terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi asking the al Qaeda leadership for reinforcements reignited the debate over al Qaeda ties with Saddam Hussein's fallen Baath regime. William Safire of the New York Times called the message a "smoking gun," while the University of Michigan's Juan Cole says that Safire "offers not even one document to prove" the Saddam-al Qaeda nexus. What you are...