Whoa - not what I was expecting

Who let this cat out of the bag? Or document out of Saddam's briefcase.

The house of cards! The house of cards! Please stop breathing!

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 — Saddam Hussein warned his Iraqi supporters to be wary of joining forces with foreign Arab fighters entering Iraq to battle American troops, according to a document found with the former Iraqi leader when he was captured, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.

The document appears to be a directive, written after he lost power, from Mr. Hussein to leaders of the Iraqi resistance, counseling caution against getting too close to Islamic jihadists and other foreign Arabs coming into occupied Iraq, according to American officials.

It provides a second piece of evidence challenging the Bush administration contention of close cooperation between Mr. Hussein's government and terrorists from Al Qaeda. C.I.A. interrogators have already elicited from the top Qaeda officials in custody that, before the American-led invasion, Osama bin Laden had rejected entreaties from some of his lieutenants to work jointly with Mr. Hussein.

...At the Pentagon, several officials believed that Iraq and Al Qaeda had found common ground in their hatred of the United States, while at the C.I.A., many analysts believed that Mr. bin Laden saw Mr. Hussein as one of the corrupt secular Arab leaders who should be toppled.  article

Hmmmm... the CIA has had Saddam - well, for years, actually - and the White House has given the CIA something of a black eye over the intelligence "failures" that led us into war.

Weren't we wondering back then just what little payback the CIA might weave into the web? Yes, we were. Think back to Halloweeeeeeeeeen.

Curioser and curioser.