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A letter purportedly from a former Iraqi intelligence chief written to Saddam Hussein was a fake ordered by the White House and CIA to rally support for going to war against Iraq, claims a new book.

The White House denies it.

The allegation was raised by Washington-based journalist Ron Suskind in a new book, "The Way of the World," published Tuesday. The letter supposedly was written by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, director of Iraqi intelligence under Saddam Hussein.

"The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001," Suskind wrote. "It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq thus showing, finally, that there was an operational link between Saddam and al-Qaida, something the vice president's office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq. There is no link."

Saw one of these on Coal Mine Avenue the other day and they are eye-catching.

But would you buy one?

Sporting a one-liter, 70 horsepower engine, they accelerate from 0 to 60 in 12 seconds, get more than 40 miles per gallon and cost about $13,600.

If you want one, decide quickly because it will take a year to get one delivered.

If you were planning to carry your personal excretable waste products around in a bucket, we've got some bad news for you.

The Denver City Council says you should just move along and leave the bucket at home.

In a law aimed at imagined protests at the Democratic National Convention, the council banned feces, urine as well as chains, padlocks and other locking devices with the intent of blocking public access or emergency equipment or to thwart crowd control measure, reports Daniel J. Chacon.

Representatives from some of the groups planning large-scale protests during the DNC this month said the ordinance was unnecessary and accused city officials of fear mongering.

Democrats are peeved at Dick Wadhams for the blunt way he said the Bob Schaffer campaign was planning some invasive advertising against Rep. Mark Udall for missing the initial Congressional vote on summer adjournment, reports Lynn Bartels.

"We're going to shove a bunch of 30-second ads up his ass on this issue over the course of the campaign," Wadhams said.

"We're going to shove a bunch of 30-second ads up his a-- on this issue over the course of the campaign," Wadhams said.

The Colorado Democratic Party called on Schaffer to "clean up the sleaze in his campaign."