Harris Survey: Many Americans Still Think Saddam Was Behind 9/11

By: E&P Staff More than four years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 22% of adults believe that Saddam Hussein "helped plan and support the hijackers who attacked the United States on September 11," according to a new Harris Poll. And nearly one in four (24%) of all adults wrongly believe that "several of the hijackers who attacked the United States on September 11 were Iraqis."

In other results bearing on support for the Iraq war, 26% of adults believe that Iraq "had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded," and 41% believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links to Al Qaeda."

While these numbers have declined in the past two years, Harris commented, ?Many U.S. adults still believe some of the
justifications for the invasion of Iraq, which have now been discredited,? raising questions about media coverage during this period.

These are the results of a nationwide Harris Poll of 1,961 U.S. adults
between December 8 and 14, 2005.