The Iran Connection

摘要

American counterteerror specialists devoutly wish they knew where Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi is today. Even so, they know a lot more than they're saying publicly about where the terrorist leader, a reputed expert on poisons, has been. Colin Powell told only part of the story to the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 5 in his account of the Jordanian-born Palestinian's travels in Afghanistan and Iraq. Zarqawi was Powell's strongest evidence of a terrorist alliance between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. But the secretary of State didn't talk about how Zarqawi's trail leads straight to a place that makes the challenges of Iraq seem almost trivial: Iran.