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Steve T said:
There were also plenty of soundbites on the news where politicians (from either side of the pond) aluded to links between Saddam and Bin Laden. Which almost certainly were baseless. Saddams government was, although vile in many ways, quite multicultural, which never would have gone down well with religious extremists.



Actually, they have found a fair amount of evidence to document that Saddam's government had ties various terrorists groups, including al Queada, just not to Bin Laden himself or 9-11 directly.

You also need to remember: in foreign affairs, quite often the rule is "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." In other words, despite Saddam's relative lack of religious extremism, both he and al Queada share a common hatred for the United States and/or Israel.