A book recently published and written by author Ron Suskind argues that Washington ordered the CIA to put together a letter showing that deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had ties to al-Qaeda and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The White House attacked the book entitled "The Way of the World." The CIA and the agency’s former director George Tenet who allegedly passed the White House order to senior CIA operators also discredited the controversial book.

As expected, Tenet released a statement in which he underlined the fact that "there was no such order from the White House.”

On the other hand, Suskind said that the White House gave Tenet the task to rewrite a letter in the hand of Tarir Jallil Habbush, a former Iraqi intelligence chief in CIA protective custody after the war started in the Middle-Eastern country. The July 2001-dated letter in Habbush’s name allegedly wrote that Iraq had hosted Mohammed Atta, the lead September 11 hijacker.

The main idea of the trick was to take the letter to Habbush and have him transcribe it in his own neat handwriting on a piece of Iraqi government stationery to make it look legitimate, the author wrote in "The Way of the World."

"CIA would then take the finished product to Baghdad and have someone release it to the media," he wrote.

In his already divisive book, Sunskid did not mention who gave the order to fabricate the incriminating false letter. It only claimed that it came from the "highest reaches" of the White House.

As far as the CIA is concerned, Tenet stated that the intelligence agency has actually resisted efforts on the part of some in the administration to paint a picture of Iraqi-Al Qaeda connections that went “beyond the evidence.” He labeled Sunskid’s allegations as “contrary to our own beliefs is ridiculous."

The book also alleges that a British intelligence official had met in secret with Habbush before the war. The meeting took place in Amman the British official was told that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. The author also said that President Bush knew that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction before the invasion and that Habbush was later resettled and paid five million dollars.