[eyespysomething]

Do you think the timing of this is tied to 9-11-01 at all?

[jveritas]

The memos were written in January 2001 and the meeting between Saddam and his nuclear scientists was held few months before that. I think that Saddam was very afraid of Iran nuclear ambitions and he did not want to be left defenseless in case Iran was able to get the nuclear weapons so he wanted to re-start his own nuclear program.