What facts are known about the connections between alkeida terrorists
in Afganistan and Palestine and Sadam Hussein-training, money etc. 
Did Sadan Hussein support alkeida and Palestinians. I need to answer
my friends with facts

Dear Ola, 

During the Saddam Hussein period, Iraq was denounced as a nation
supporting international terrorism. Other countries in this list are
Cuba, Sudan, North Korea, Libya, Syria and Iran.

Saddam's Regime and Al-Qaeda
============================
Just before he headed the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Muhammad Atta,
one of the terrorists, met with an Iraqi embassy official in Prague
(Czech Republic). This, and other pieces of information, could lead to
believe that Iraq was supportive of the attacks.

The link between the Iraqi regime and Al-Qaeda were part of the US
casus beli to attack the country.

Last October, a memo "from Undersecretary of Defence for Policy
Douglas Feith provided details of intelligence linking Osama bin
Laden's al Qaeda network and the toppled Iraqi government of Saddam
Hussein. Details of the memo were published in the Nov. 24 issue of
The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine." (SOURCE: CBS, "Memo
Alleges Saddam-Qaeda Ties"
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/20/iraq/main584761.shtml>).

The Weekly Standard articles could be found here: 
?Saddam's al Qaeda Connection?
http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/033jgqyi.asp

Case Closed /Stephen F. Hayes 
The U.S. government's secret memo detailing cooperation between Saddam
Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
11/24/2003, Volume 009, Issue 11 
<http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.asp> 
However, some context the assumption that Iraq had any links to
Al-Qaeda. For example: "IRAQ posed no imminent threat to the United
States and there was no solid evidence that President Saddam Hussein
was cooperating with the al-Qaeda terror network, a private think tank
maintained today." (SOURCE: "No Saddam, al-Qaeda link: report", Herald
Sun  <http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8356508%255E1702,00.html>).

Not only has the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace claimed
so. "State Secretary Colin Powell finally conceded that there never
had been any ''concrete evidence'' of Iraqi ties to al Qaeda,
contradicting himself on the ''sinister nexus'' that he conjured up
for the U.N. Security Council last February" (SOURCE: Miami Herald,
"Will speech lack hyperbole that 'justified' war?" BY RAY McGOVERN
<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/7743542.htm>).

More information and opinions on the subject: 
 Al Qaeda and Iraq  
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=255690 

Does the al Qaeda have bases in Iraq? 
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=115916 


Iraq and Palestinian Terrorism
==============================
The Palestinian leadership was among Saddam's last supporters: when
Saddam conquered Kuwait, the Palestinians cheered him. When he was
regarded as an outcast, Arafat met with him.

Saddam had connections with Palestinian terrorists in several levels.
First of all, Saddam supported families of Palestinian terrorists:
Saddam stokes war with suicide bomber cash
Sydney Morning Herald March 26 2002
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/03/25/1017004766310.html> 

In addition, some Palestinian terrorist organisations operated from
Iraq : "Another terrorist organization, the ?Palestinian Liberation
Front,? headed by Muhammad Zaydan (Abu al-Abbas), serves as an
operational body for carrying out terrorist attacks against Israel.
This is the same organization that carried out the terrorist attack
aboard the Achile Lauro ship in 1986, in which Leon Klinghoffer, a
wheelchair stricken U.S. citizen, was murdered." (SOURCE: an IDF
report on the subject: "Iraqi Involvement in Palestinian Terrorism"
<http://www.idf.il/iraq/english/info13.stm>).

My colleague THX 1138 adds, in his answer mentioned above: "Since Iraq
invaded Kuwait in 1990, however, Hussein has developed ties with
Islamic extremist groups, said Amatzia Baram, an Iraq specialist at
the University of Haifa in Israel.  Hussein now supports the
Islamist-oriented Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas."
<http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2002/3/19/2s.html>
(SOURCE: quoted from another Google Answer, "Does the al Qaeda have
bases in Iraq?" <http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=115916>).

More information: 
Fox News, "Israel: Iraq Aids Palestinian Terror, But No Links to Al
Qaeda" <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77248,00.html>.

I hope this answered your question. Please contact me if you need any
further clarifications on the answer before you tip/rate it.

There is no known link between Alkeida and Saddam Hussein.  In fact,
Alkeida believes that Muslim nations should be run based on the Koran.
 Saddam Hussein ran a secular, not religiously based, government.  In
addition, Alkeida was a Shiite movement, and in Saddam's Iraq, the
Shiites were oppressed.  Many of the most religious Shiite clerics,
the ones that had similar philosophies to Alkeida, were put to death. 
So, as far as Americans are concerned, the only link between Saddam
Hussein and Alkeida was that they both hated the U.S. and they both
hated each other.

With regards to Palestine, Saddam Hussein gave money to the families
of dead Palestinian terrorists.

Dear Ola, 

Few facts about Al Qa'ida, following Paul-the-Tutor's comment: 

Al-Qa'ida (literally "The Base"), is not exactly an "organisation" in
the common, structured, sense of the word, when we think of terrorist
organisations. It more loosely organised (and this decentralisation
makes it very difficult to combat it. Therefore, I would also not use
the past tense when discussing Al Qa'ida - unfortunately, I think we
will hear from them.

More importantly, Al Qa'ida is NOT A SHII'TE organisation. In fact,
there is hostility between the stream of political Islamism in the
Suni thought, to which the Al-Qa'ida members adhere, and the Shii'te
streams. Bin Laden's "deputy", for example, is an Egyptian Sunni, an
so was the terrorist Atta. Iran, for example, was hostile both to Bin
Laden and to the (Sunni) Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Cooperation,
if and when it exists, is based on opportunistic interests, not on
long term strategy/ideology.

This, by the way, also implies on the possible links between the
Ba'ath regime in Iraq and Bin Laden. Although it is a secular regime,
it sought legitimacy in the last few years using nationalist and
Islamist slogans. The wordings "God is the Greatest" (Allah'hu Akbar)
were added to the flag. Saddam sought legitimacy in other ways as
well, and a tactical cooperation with an organisation - even if it an
Islamic organisation opposing the original ideological basis of his
regime - could come up. Saddam also supported, for example, the
Mujahidin Khalk, an Iranian opposition group, which is Islamist and
opposes the ideological basis of the Saddam regime.