Al Qaeda in...where, again?

So all I read of this, I must confess, is the headline. But shouldn't this give one pause when criticizing the war in Iraq? You know, the war we shouldn't be fighting because Iraq never attacked us and there were "No WMDs"?

"This appears to be the first hard evidence al Qaeda in Iraq was trying to attack us here at home," said ABC News consultant Richard Clarke, former chief counterterrorism adviser on the U.S. National Security Council.

Al Qaeda DID attack us. And they're...where? Did he say "Iraq"??