Here are the articles which put to bed the lie that Iraq didn't have a relationship with AQ.
Saddam was AQ's ATM and considered OBL an intelligence asset.
Even the Clinton administration noted in their federal indictment of OBL that he had an understanding not to attack Iraq in exchange for working together against the West.
And in the 90's, the MSM wrote dozens of articles about Saddam's relationship with the jihadists and how the first WTC bomber took refuge in Iraq.
That and more here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327993/posts
BTW, I see many of the 'reports' you have provided are from little Billy Kristol's magazine. Small wonder than Andrew McCarthy reports the link exists considering his ties to Kristol and the rest of the PNAC lackeys