[simonX]

"...the evidence of meetings in Baghdad between Saddam's regime and AQ."

What evidence have you seen?
All that I've seen is some articles in the Guardian taht said in the past AQ has rejected Iraq's overtures and that the CIA didn't know what happenned at the meeting.

Just having meetings is pretty vague. I mean, the US has had ongoing, intensive meetings with a number of aQ and Taleban members and supporters down in Gitmo.

Has more info come out as to the nature of the contacts between Hijazi and bin Laden?

Please share.

I've not seen any reports that said anything other than that Ansar al-Islam is Kurdish. What info are using to make your judgement?

[justshutupandtakeit]

English newspapers reported several weeks ago on the meetings between AQ and the Iraqi regime. Documents found in Baghdad showed that they occurred in Iraq, Afganistan and the Sudan and that Iraq was providing the means to do so. Reports of attendence by AQ members at Salman Pak have also been revealed by the media.

I am repeating what has been printed here on various occasions from media from across the globe.