Saddam saw al-Qaeda as a threat....
Wow, can you believe it? There is no link between Saddam and al-Qaeda or pre invasion Iraq and al-Qaeda...someone better tell the President. Oh, that's right, they told him after 9-11. They told him before we invaded, and they told him plenty of times since and yet, last week, he was still demanding that we think of an Iraq controlled by Saddam and sympathetic to al-Qaeda...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5328592.stm
The finding is contained in a 2005 CIA report released by the Senate's Intelligence Committee on Friday.
US President George W Bush has said that the presence of late al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq before the war was evidence of a link.