FAQ

Not in the sense American and world's nations were expecting. Allied forces recovered aerial bombs and artillery shells filled with nerve gas of the same type used by Saddam in the Iran/Iraq war and to kill over 3000 people in the Kurdish town of Halabaja in 1988. The Allies also recovered millions of dollars worth of 'yellowcake' uranium ore used in Saddam's nuclear programme which the Iraqi democratic government later sold to a Canadian nuclear energy company. However the manufacturing system that produced the nerve agents and Iraq's nuclear weapons programme had long since been abandoned as a result of UN sanctions, Iraqi exiles fleeing the regime telling Western intelligence agencies that they were still functioning in order to convince them to liberate Iraq from Saddam's dictatorship. In interviews before his trial Saddam stated that he obstructed UN inspectors who could verify the truth so as not to lose face and expose Iraq's military weakness to Iran, thinking that any Allied campaign would be limited to airstrikes.

There were no links. Reports from the independent 9/11 Commission and by declassified Defense Department reports as well as by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, whose 2006 report of Phase II of its investigation into prewar intelligence reports concluded that there was no evidence of ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.