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Source: http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?030210fa_fact
Another Look at Al Qaeda and Iraq
(New Yorker) Jeffrey Goldberg - American intelligence believes that al Qaeda and Saddam reached a non-aggression agreement in 1993, and that the relationship deepened in the mid-1990s when an al Qaeda operative - a native-born Iraqi who goes by the name Abu Abdullah al-Iraqi - was dispatched by bin Laden to ask the Iraqis for help in poison-gas training. Al-Iraqi's mission was successful, and an unknown number of trainers from an Iraqi secret-police organization called Unit 999 were dispatched to camps in Afghanistan to instruct al Qaeda terrorists.