[Billthedrill]

"It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al-Qaida," according to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith

...who evidently have never heard of Halabja or Ansar al-Islam. I don't think this study need be taken very seriously.

[Stultis]

...who evidently have never heard of Halabja or Ansar al-Islam.

Well, presumably they meant following the first Gulf War, so Halabja (1988) wouldn't apply. But your second point is apt. Ansar al-Islam was a terrorist org, in Iraqi Kurdistan, JOINTLY RUN by al-Qaeda and Saddam's secret police, right up to the war. I never understood how the Senate Intel Committee, among others, ignored this in claiming there was NO "operational coordination" between al-Qaeda and Iraq. At least in Kurdistan there was.