"After the invasion, Habbush was paid $5 million by the CIA for serving as an informant and resettled in Jordan. It was then, according to Suskind's account, that White House officials decided to enlist his help with the alleged forgery -- one suggesting a link between Saddam Hussein's government and Mohamed Atta, the leader of the 19 hijackers in the Sept. 11 attack. The administration, and particularly Vice President Cheney, had long argued that such a link existed but that the CIA had failed to find supporting evidence. Claims by a captured al-Qaeda official of links to Hussein were later determined to be false."