If you are going to consider this option, why not consider that AQ might have been tricked into doing it as part of a false-flag operation? Both possibilities seem equally (un)likely.
Here is a post that caught my eye in a search, read final paragraf with emphassis added.....
To: CyberAnt; Wordsmith; The Great Satan
Missile delivery systems are irrelvant, with the exception of perhaps attacks on Israel - but even then unlikley since Israel will follow the trajectory of the missile to its origin and reply with a nuclear bomb.
Ballistic missiles went out with hijacking planes and taking them to Cuba.
This is the new world of plausible deniability - and Saddam was the person who brought us into this new world.
False flag operations carried out by willing suicidal jihadists (where even the jihadist grunts themselves are unaware who's really sponsoring them) are what we have to deal with - and when these guys have anthrax in their hands it's the most frightening thing the world has ever faced. There is no deterrent.
21 posted on 01/30/2003 4:19 PM EST by Badabing Badaboom
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