Operation Desert Fox: The Four-Day War

Thomas Jocelyn of the Weekly Standard has more on what we knew about Saddam and al Qaeda in the late 1990's. He opens with this these words from bin Laden after Operation Desert Fox, a 4-day bombing campaign against military targets in Iraq:

The British and the American people loudly declared their support for their leaders decision to attack Iraq. It is the duty of Muslims to confront, fight, and kill them.

Osama bin Laden, as quoted in various press accounts, December 26, 1998

Looking back, it's surprising how much knowledge we had about relationship between Saddam Hussein and bin Laden, and how much of it is in the public domain, and how little we hear about it.