In '' Chain of Command , '' a book based on his groundbreaking New Yorker reporting , Seymour M. Hersh notes that an intelligence operation was set up at the Pentagon as a kind of alternative to the C.I.A. It was created , he writes , to find evidence of what Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and his boss , Donald Rumsfeld already '' believed to be true -- that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda , and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical , biological , and possibly even nuclear weapons . ''
Saddam Hussein
Iraq
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Saddam Hussein
Iraq
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Saddam Hussein
Iraq
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Paul Wolfowitz
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Donald Rumsfeld
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Saddam Hussein
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Iraq