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Rumsfeld questions Saddam-Bin Laden link
On Monday, Mr Rumsfeld also said intelligence about weapons of mass destruction before the invasion had been faulty and that the US had been unable to find any such weapons.
"Why the intelligence proved wrong, I'm not in a position to say, 
but the world is a lot better off with Saddam Hussein in jail," he said.
Mr Rumsfeld added that Saddam Hussein's regime was not the "Little Sisters of the Poor" - Iraq had been on the US State Department's terrorist list and made payments for Palestinian suicide bombings, he said.
"The relationships between these folks are complicated. They evolve and change over time. In many cases, these different networks have common funders."
He also said that although most of al-Qaeda's senior leaders had sworn an oath to Osama Bin Laden, the man suspected to be the principal leader of the network in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had not.
Mr Zarqawi's reported presence in Baghdad before the war has been cited in the past by the US administration as evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.
Iraq mistakes
The former US governor of Iraq, Paul Bremer, said on Monday the US had made two mistakes in the conflict in Iraq - although he was still in favour of intervening in Iraq.
One error was not having enough ground troops to take control of the country, he said.
The US also made the mistake of not containing the violence and looting quickly enough after Saddam Hussein was ousted, he said. "We paid a big price for not stopping it because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness," he told a conference in West Virginia.