The Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations were based on false claims by the United States federal government alleging that a secretive relationship existed between Iraqi president Saddam Hussei
Osama bin Laden, general emir of al-Qaeda
Colin Powell's U.N. slide of Al-Zarqawi's alleged global terrorist network. The "detained Al-Qaeda Operative" is widely believed to be Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi. The "UK Poison Cell" was found in court to be a single person.
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Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the Iraq war. He previously served as the vice president
Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations
…allegations were based on false claims by the United States federal government alleging that a secretive relationship existed between Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the pan-Islamist militant organization al-Qaeda between 1992 and 2003. US president George W. Bush used it as a main reason for invading Iraq in…
Official portrait, 1979
Saddam in his youth as a shepherd in his village, near Tikrit, 1956
Saddam and other Ba'athists posing on top of a tank after a successful coup in February 1963
Saddam and al-Bakr, de jure president of Iraq alongside Hafez al-Assad of Syria at an Arab League summit in Baghdad in November 1978