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What did the September 11 commission conclude about links between Saddam Hussein’s government and al-Qaeda?
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The 9/11 Commission concluded that there was "no credible evidence" of a collaborative relationship between Saddam Hussein’s government and al-Qaeda.1
While alleged ties between Iraq and the terrorist organization had been used as a casus belli for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the commission explicitly found that Iraq played no role in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and was not involved in the al-Qaeda plot. Despite these findings, members of the Bush administration continued to assert that such links existed.1