Wrong. They 'state flatly' that they don't see any evidence of Saddam playing a role in 9/11. None of them have denied a link between Saddam and bin Laden/Al-Qaeda.
actually, to put even a finer point on it, they state that there have no evidence that Saddam ordered or controlled Al Qaeada's attack on 9/11. They always state that there is plenty of evidence that Saddam and Al Qaeda were cooperating and "in cahoots," so to speak, at many levels. The NYT and WP and LAT conveniently ignore those points, certainly in their headlines.