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It's even in the 9/11 Commission's OWN REPORT:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040616/D83860A00.html
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"While Saddam dispatched a senior Iraqi intelligence official to Sudan to meet with bin Laden in 1994, the commission said it had not turned up evidence of a "collaborative relationship."
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"Bin Laden is said to have requested space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons, but Iraq apparently never responded," the report said. "There have been reports that contacts between Iraq and al-Qaida also occurred" after bin Laden moved his operations to Afghanistan in 1996, "but they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship," it said.
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"Two senior bin Laden associates have adamantly denied that any ties existed between al-Qaida and Iraq," the report said."
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SO - the 9/11 commission finds Al Qaeda requested to meet with Iraqi officials, and they did - in 1994 AND 1996 - but that's not a "collaborative relationship"?

The President of the United States says it IS a "collaborative relationship", so the 9/11 commission calls him a liar. Senior Al-Qaeda officers say it IS NOT a "collaborative relationship" and the 9/11 commission quotes them as reliable sources - the ONLY "evidence" presented that this is NOT a "collaborative relationship".

Bastards.