Perhaps if one would read past the headlines you would see the report showed no direct connection between Saddam/Iraq and Al Qaeda/911. It did confirm contacts between Al Qaeda and Iraqi Intelligence officers. One might also recall Saddam provided financial assistance to family members of Palestinian suicide bombers after their loved one took a one way ride on the TNT Express.
Perhaps the difference between our two countries is we prefer not fighting wars on our own ground and try to fight them in someone else's ground. That is both good and bad if you consider that makes such things a much more distant and less threatening situation for Joe Six Pack here in the USA.
I endorse the concept of reading about Suicide Bombers doing themselves in somewhere besides Main Street, US of A.
Perhaps the Channel is not wide enough....as the UK seems to have had the bad luck to experience the effectiveness of the Suicide bomber and we on the far side of the Atlantic have escaped that thus far.
Who knows how long that will be is the question.