January 17, 2006: One of the most unreported stories concerns Saddam Hussein’s connection to various terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda. This has been lost in a lot of the arguments over weapons of mass destruction. Some of it is due to skepticism about any claim made by the American government. Another part is due to an insistence on a court-room level of proof – an impossible standard for intelligence agencies to meet in most cases. That said, evidence is emerging of the Saddam Hussein regime’s connections to terrorism. The regime openly handed out checks to the families of Palestinian murder-suicide bombers....