Smoking Gun

Seems we've found a "smoking gun" in Iraq, evidence linking Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. This from William Safire in the New York Times (the Times is not, incidentally, a big fan of the President)...

"That Kurdish militia [the Pesh Merga] has for years been waging a bloody battle with Ansar al-Islam, the terrorist group affiliated with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and supported by Saddam Hussein in Iraq. It captured a courier carrying a message that demolishes the repeated claim of Bush critics that there was never a "clear link" between Saddam and Osama bin Laden.

"The terrorist courier with a CD-ROM containing a 17-page document and other messages was Hassan Ghul, who confessed he was taking to Al Qaeda the Ansar document setting forth a strategy to start an Iraqi civil war, along with a plea for reinforcements. The Kurds turned him over to Americans for further interrogation, which is proving fruitful."

Is this going to get much mainstream media attention? Don't count on it.