Years ago, I posted a New York Times article from Jan 2003, about how Saddam Hussein was hiring Al Qaeda as mercenaries, to fight against his Kurd enemy resistance in Northern Iraq.
And there is video of endless ceremonies where Saddam, through representatives, gave large checks to the surviving families of Palestinian suicide bombers. Saddam gave a 25,000-dollar check to the family of every suicide bomber.
Those are very public facts.
In addition to Saddam Hussein's other connections to terrorists you cite, G-man.