How Pair's Finding on Terror Led To Clash on Shaping Intelligence.

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.