New find in 'smoking gun' search | csmonitor.com
"But the officials declined to say exactly what they had found or whether there was any evidence to link the militants camped out here to the Iraqi dictator.

"We have found various documents, equipment, and evidence that would indicate a presence of chemical or biological weapons. It has been flown back to the United States," a Special Forces company commander said Tuesday at a joint press press conference in Halabja, a Kurdish city in northern Iraq. "At this point, [exploration] of the site is ongoing."

In a war that has often seemed to be marked by more bad surprises than good, Tuesday was a moment for back-slapping. Kurdish and US forces lauded each other's cooperation in decimating a Taliban-like camp whose members were responsible for a recent suicide attack on a nearby checkpoint that killed an Australian journalist."

Yep, it's more on the MTF. Note that what's actually been found bears no relationship to the hype announced by the Pentagon and that you cannot really prove a link between Saddam and al-Qaida by showing an MTF (if that is what it is) operating outside Saddam's reach. If it took 8 000 peshmerga plus US special forces to capture a village within the Kurdish safe haven I am at a loss to understand how Saddam could have influenced anything the Ansar al-Islam was doing there.