He's dangerous in the same way the 9/11 hi-jackers were dangerous when they slit the throats of stewardesses on the hijacked airliners. You said Saddam had bad generals. Arab culture doesn't produce good soldiers on the western model either. In our culture, and not just in the military, you are expected to take responsibility for your actions, to train your subordinates, and to work together for common goals. The reason the Israelis kicked the snot out of all the Arab armies they faced is because Arab culture doesn't support any of these important ideas. The Arabs can't build cohesive combat units that will stick together and fight together in the same way we do.
The Arabs are sneaky and cowardly, even if they might individually get into a fanatic state on occasion. I met a guy not long after Desert Storm who was in the 101st Airborne. He and his buddies were processing Iraqi POW's when one of them reared up with a knife and stabbed this guy. His buddy covering the searches butt-stroked the POW to the back of the head and killed him. That sounds about right to me.
You're right though. If they can fire a Stinger surface to air missile at a 747, or park a car with a dirty nuke in it on a city street they will do it in a heartbeat.
Walt