No Connection

Bill Roggio points us to this account concerning the capture of Muhammed Hila Hammad Ubaydi, aka Abu Ayman. Consider this paragraph:

Until his capture, Abu Ayman, the former aide to the Chief of Staff of Intelligence during the Saddam Hussein regime, was the leader of the Secret Islamic Army in the Northern Babil Province. Abu Ayman has strong ties to terror leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, still considered the head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

The former aide to Saddam's Chief of Staff of Intelligence, who has "strong ties to terror leader" Zarqawi?

The naysayers will argue this type of cooperation only started after the U.S.-led invasion. Ask yourself how realistic that paradigm is.