George Tenet, director of the C.I.A., and General Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, laid out plans to attack al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Nobody at the meeting doubted that al-Qaeda had carried out the hijackings, but Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz insisted, without providing evidence, that there was at least a 10 percent chance, and perhaps a 50 percent chance, that Saddam Hussein had also been involved. The plans proposed by the C.I.A. and the Pentagon to strike al-Qaeda were too narrow: “We really need to think broader,” Wolfowitz said. “We’ve got to make sure
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