JohnJay, two questions you have to answer to maintain that fiction.
If UBL wanted to depose Saddam, why did al qaeda want UN sanctions on Iraq lifted? If you can tell me how lifting UN sanctions would have hurt Saddam, I would certainly be impressed. The fact is it would only have helped Saddam.
Secondly, if al qaeda can mobilize tens of thousands of jihadists to fight the US and British military in Iraq, why didn’t they just take out the Saddam regime themselves if they wanted him gone? (BTW, before you answer “because they wanted the US to do it” then you have to tell me how fighting a vastly superior multinational force is better than fighting Saddam’s broken military, in other words, it has to be a rational answer)
answer to both questions: they wanted him in power, in fact more powerful (by removing UN sanctions) so he could provide them with more cash.
And for bonus points, identify the al qaeda attacks upon Saddam’s embassies or government offices.
Surely if they wanted to depose Saddam, they were constantly attacking his government, right?
http://rayrobison.typepad.com/ray_robison/2007/04/announcement_a_.html
