And just heard on Q&A (CNN): Saddam has no links with Al Qaeda because that network is religious oriented and Saddam's worst enemies in Iraq are the religious fundamentalists.
95% of all the weapons of mass destructions Iraq had before the Gulf war have been destroyed (witnessed by the inspectors) and he can't rebuild the potential without being noticed somehow. And so far it hasn't been the case.
In the southern part of Iraq, an important Shiite minority would like nothing better than to see Iraq collapse, so they can join Iran.
If the US goes at war agaisnt Iraq anyway, it's the best kind of gift to Bin Laden: it will reunite the moderate and religious oriented Arab coutries against the western world, in a way Osama would not have hoped for.

Raoul