Another Most Wanted Ba'athist has been captured, and this big fish will help to prove what the White House and the right has been saying about Saddam and terrorism all along:

A senior member of Saddam Hussein's ousted government is believed to be helping coordinate attacks on American forces with members of an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group, a senior defense official said Wednesday.

Two captured members of Ansar al-Islam have said Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is helping to coordinate their attacks, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

That information is the first solid evidence of links between remnants of Saddam's regime and the non-Iraqi fighters responsible for at least some of the attacks on U.S. forces and their Iraqi allies, the official said.

Hopefully, this will hobble some arms of the insurgency while reminding Americans how inextricably dictatorship and terrorism are linked in the Near East. State-perpetuated ignorance and oppression lure many into doctrines of hatred and violence; people with rights, opportunity and a future have no need for extremism. Saddam's deposition and Iraq's democratization will bring us closer to defeating terror; this capture will help our forces complete the first objective.