Assad regime killed 20,000 people in the city of Hama to put down fundamentalist uprising. Such behavior did nothing to discourage fundamentalists to enlist Assad's help to operate Hezbollah in S. Lebanon. Every group in Mid-East is a sworn enemy to other groups. They have treachery and double-crossing dating back several generations. And they remember all of them, sort them out and make alliances with their father's sworn enemy or their sworn enemy of the past if it suits their best interest. They are quite casual about these matters. They all unite when they have a real big enemy to contend with, such as U.S. To get a good example of this phenomena, look at Afghan. Every group in N. Alliance was united to fight Talibans. Once Taliban crumbled, fights between old enemies resurfaced. Arab's plan is to defeat U.S. and Israel first. And settle old scores among them, jocking for better positions. Osama Bin Laden emphasized that all Muslims set aside any differences and unite against U.S. (and Israel). He persuaded many to just do that. That includes Saddam. Hezbollah's supply passes through Iraq from Iran. Saddam took in a few hundred Al-Qaeda terrorist for training. I doubt that fundamentalists are conspiring against Saddam now.
Islamic fundementalists are differant, they are not bound by any sort of logic, much like the extreme end of the Republican party, they would rather be idologically pure than relevant, they would never get in bed with Saddam.
Saddam just sent about 40 of these guys to their 72 virgins a few weeks ago,
One of the reasons the Clinton administration was uncomfortable getting to close to the Iraqi opposition, is because they have alot of hardcore islamic fanatics who want to make Iraq into another Afghanistan. A sane Saddam is probably less dangerous than an insane Mulla.
Saddam is a stalinist bastard, and he has to go, but trying to implicate him in terrorism, will only hurt the administrations credibility when the time comes to go after Iraq.