"For 20 years, such 'support' included using Fedayeen Saddam training camps to school terrorists, especially Palestinians but also non-Iraqis 'directly associated' with al Qaeda, continuing up to the fall of Baghdad. Saddam also provided financial support and weapons, amounting to 'a state-directed program of significant scale.' In July 2001, the regime began patronizing a terror cartel in Bahrain calling itself the Army of Muhammad, which, according to an Iraqi memo, 'is under the wings of bin Laden.'"

Read the editorial at The Wall Street Journal.