I too believe that Al Q would have rid Iraq of Saddam if the U.S. had not. Interesting how those freaking "sheet heads" constantly change alliances. I'm SURE he was considered an infidel by AQ. He was their useful idiot in helping them and supplying them. They would have gladly beheaded him when they were finished with him. Are AQ Sunni or Shite?
Who gives a "shite?" They are all freaking nuts.
Al Qaeda are mainly Sunni, just like the Baathists.
And Al AQaeda and Saddam were not enemies. As far back as 1998, bin Laden and al Zawihiri were saying that U.S. attacks on Iraq were part of the reason they declared jihad on us. Also, see Khobar Towers attack. Khobar housed the pilots doing the bombing raids over Iraq. Don't believe the lefty/MSM myth that Saddam and bin Laden hated each other.
Read the Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (no neo-con is he0, you'l get all the history about al Qaeda you need.