Al-Qaida Threat Persists

Trying to justify the Iraq was, President Bush cited intelligence reports that he said showed a link between al-Qaida's operation in Iraq and the terror group that attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. Democrats, of course, disagree. Bush said the merger between al-Qaida and its Iraqi affiliate is an alliance of killers and that is why the finest military in the world is on their trail.