Take a look at wiki on Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda links allegations. Despite the most strident efforts of the most hawkish members of the Bush regime, no operational link between Saddam and al-Qaeda was found and, what's more, the ideological differences between them precluded such a link. Saddam opposed the 9-11 attack. Why is it that you always seem to want to twist history into a sort of rickety Heath Robinson version, "I'll change the facts to get my story to work even if it kills me", sort of thing?