IIRC there were some of those al Qaeda guys in the US - gosh! does that mean the US gov't is in cahoots with al Qaeda too!?
Jury's still out on Hussein-al Qaeda links - somehow I doubt the link, though, seeing as the two parties - the secular dictator and the religious nutter - fundamentally don't get along (bit like claiming Karl Marx and Jerry Falwell were in league with each other against Hinduism). The Saudi and Kuwaiti regimes on the other hand certainly need investigating.
The non news is that there are al Qaeda guys in Iraq now.
The irony is that al Qaeda's presence in Iraq now is a direct result of the US invasion.
And the bad news is that thanks to the invasion and the US deposing Hussein, al Qaeda is most likely in Iraq to stay and they've got lots of new Iraqi recruits to choose from.