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Whether we had the evidence or not, there are few things I would bet on in life, but Saddams involvement with 9/11 and the Al Qaeda would be at the top of the list. The question should have been why wouldn't he???? His Cabinet was made up of well known terrorist's, he was a hitman in his past life and Bin Laden and Saddam had the same goal. History is full of different states and organizations that may not agree on everything, but unite against a common enemy... in this case, America.

Well, actually, there's a lot of reasons for Osama NOT to involve himself with Iraq for the 9/11 attacks.

1) Money. The whole thing didn't cost very much and Osama certainly had plenty of his own money to cover expenses.

2) Operational Security. The more people who know about an operation the easier it is compromised. Involve Iraqi officials and it's possible that Iraq has been penetrated by intelligence or eavesdropping and AQ hasn't.

Also, Iraq had a long record of laughably incompetent attempts at terrorism at the time, all of which had failed; the attempts during the 1991 Gulf War were so comically inept if someone had made a movie of them it wouldn't have been believable. Hard to see how that is attractive to Osama.

3) Materials. I THINK you can get box cutters other places than Iraq.

4) Training. The flight training was entirely in the US, it appears. And otherwise AQ pretty much had the run of Afghanistan as a safe, secure base for training.

And in the bios of all of the hijackers (especially the "muscle" involved in physically taking over the plane) I'm unaware of any missing gaps of months or years where they were in Iraq or could have been in Iraq. They were either in Yemen or Saudi or Afghanistan, or in Germany, the US, etc.