The Saddam–al-Qaeda conspiracy theory was based on false claims by the United States government alleging that a secretive relationship existed between Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the Sunni pan-Islamist militant organization al-Qaeda between 1992 and 2003. The George W. Bush administration promoted it as a main rationale for invading Iraq in 2003.
Colin Powell's U.N. slide of Al-Zarqawi's alleged global terrorist network. The "UK Poison Cell" was found in court to be a single person.
Carl Milton Levin was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2007 to 2015.
Senator Levin and Senator John Warner (R-VA) listen to Admiral Mike Mullen's 2007 Senate confirmation hearing for becoming Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Warner and Levin died two months apart.
Senator Levin speaking at an 2007 event during the naming of the USS Gerald R. Ford
Senator Carl Levin announces at a 2003 press conference his opposition to the War in Iraq and his willingness to vote "No" on the authorization for President George W. Bush to invade Iraq.