Quotes
NOW
I have not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence about the connection
- Secretary of State Colin Powell regarding the reported connection between Iraq and al Qaida
, 1/9/04

THEN
I want to bring to your attention today [to] the potentially much more sinister nexus between Iraq and the al-Qaida terrorist network...al-Qaida affiliates based in Baghdad now coordinate the movement of people, money and supplies into and throughout Iraq for Saddam's network, and they have now been operating freely in [Baghdad].
- Secretary of State Colin Powell, 2/5/03