NO, THERE NEVER WAS any kind of link whatosever between al-Qaeda and Saddam's regime; not only this, they hated each other so much that they would have never considered the possibility of doing anything together. That's probably why al-Zawahiri, number 2 of the terrorist organization, was in Iraq in 1999 to attend the Popular Islamic Congress after being summoned by al-Douri (who was alive back then). And it's also the reason why, around that time, al-Zarqawi entered into the country and started building the first terrorist cells. So says former prime minister Allawi, based on documents found in Saddam regime's file cabinets.


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