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Editorial. Comments on the report released by the independent commission investigating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. Assertion by the commission that there was no evidence linking Iraq to the Al Qaeda attacks; Call on U.S. President George W. Bush to apologize to the American people for misleading them.

Analyzes the findings of the independent commission investigating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. Absence of evidence linking Iraq with the Al Qaeda; Implications for efforts of U.S. President George W. Bush to justify his decision to go to war against Iraq; Implications for the November 2004 presidential elections in the U.S. INSETS: In Bush's and Cheney's Words.;In the Commission's Words..

Examines how a two-man U.S. Pentagon intelligence unit created after September 11, 2001, reported an increasingly unified Islamic terrorist threat and links between Iraq and Al Qaeda. Efforts of Michael Maloof and Douglas J. Feith Defense Intelligence Agency to track links between terrorists and host countries; Warning that ethnic, religious and political divides between terrorist groups were breaking down; Controversy over their findings; Investigation by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence whether the unit exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq to justify the war; Contention of other intelligence agencies that they found little evidence to support the group's findings; Resistance from the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency to the unit; The team's briefing for Paul D. Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of defense; Questions over the terrorism link. INSET: A Small Intelligence Cell's Connections.

Examines the Czech Republic's confirmation that an Iraqi intelligence officer met with Mohammed Atta, a leader of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, a few months before the hijackings took place. Question of whether Iraq established secret ties with the terrorist network Al Qaeda; Background on the meeting; Issue of Iraqi complicity in the attacks; Comments of Sabah Khodada regarding terrorist training camps in Iraq.