Monday, June 14, 2004:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/06/....terrorism.ap/

"He was a patron of terrorism," Cheney said of Hussein during a speech before The James Madison Institute, a conservative think-tank based in Florida. "He had long established ties with al Qaeda."
Wednesday, June 16, 2004:

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/06/16...septlink040616
Despite a meeting between Osama bin Laden and a top Iraqi official in 1994, there is "no credible evidence" that Iraq and al-Qaeda cooperated in the attacks of Sept.11, 2001, a U.S. commission report states.

According to the report, based on research and interviews by the commission, bin Laden reportedly met with the senior intelligence official "to have requested space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons," the report said.

"But Iraq apparently never responded," according to the report.
For once and for all: no ties between Saddam and Al-Qaeda.