[SeeSalt]

.. and the analysis shows no evidence of operational ties between Saddam Hussein’s regime and al-Qaeda.

The operation procedure of any dictator is oral communication and no written documents concerning sensitive matters. Saddam was a dictator and the WMD a sensitive matter! Is any reason Saddam kick out from Iraq the UN inspectors?

[tobyhill]

The clear operational ties are also that both were Sunni, both hated America, both hated Israel, both hated Shiites and both wanted to kill them all.