Initial news stories about the Joint Forces Command Report on the Saddam-Al Qaeda link featured headlines and gloating passage that no such link existed.  The actual report, "Saddam & terrorism: Emerging Insights From Captured Iraqi Documents" reveals that a link did exist.  Stephen F. Hayes was onto the connection story from the get-go and wrote several Weekly Standard articles about it, and a book detailing the Saddam-AQ links titled The Connection.  Here is an excerpt from his Weekly Standard blog posting citing a relevant excerpt from the Report: Captured Iraqi documents have uncovered evidence that links the regime of Saddam Hussein to regional and global terrorism, including a variety of revolutionary, liberation, nationalist and Islamic terrorist organizations. While these documents do not reveal direct coordination and assistance between the Saddam regime and the al Qaeda network, they do...(Read Full Post)