Safire is insisting today, not for the first time, that there is a link between Ansar al-Islam and Al Qaeda and that that connects Saddam to Al Qaeda. Ansar al-Islam was a fundamentalist militia that, pre-US invasion, controlled a small area sandwiched between the Kurdish controlled region and the Iranian border and fought the secular Kurds. He says that Saddam "supported" Ansar. That's unlikely. Any material support to Ansar, going through Iraq would have to go through Kurdish territory. It's more likely that any support Ansar received came through Iran. I'll give you the Ansar-Qaeda link William, but you'll need to convince me of the Saddam-Ansar link before I'll buy your story.
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