9/11 Commission rules out Saddam/al-Qaida link

US president George Bush’s justification for the Iraq war suffered another major setback when a commission dismissed claims of a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida.

US president George Bush’s much-questioned justification for the Iraq war suffered another major setback when an independent commission dismissed claims of a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida.

The findings of the commission, investigating the September 11, 2001 attacks, comes on top of the Bush administration’s failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.