“I always knew there was no big link of Saddam with terrorism.”
He operated terrorist training camps, at least one of which featured an airliner as a training aid.
I remember that airliner training aid but Saddam was a bush league sponsor of outside terror. Very minor. He was more concerned with terrorizing within Iraq and ruling Iraq. It was not worth invading for that amount of terrorist training
Take Iran...now that was and is a real state sponsor of terrorism.