Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj is on record as saying that al-Qaeda has access to at least some portion of the old Iraqi arsenal and has openly admitted working with Saddam Hussein.
NO NO NO1 This is not possible as I heard on NPR tow weeks ago that there never was any connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda, and if you can't trust NPR who can you trust?
Oct. is sarcasm awareness month.
Just saw another interesting article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1011867/posts Cases of piracy at sea leap, Indonesia worst (some by Al Qaeda)
In July it reported three attempted boardings in less than a week, with pirates firing automatic weapons at two gas tankers and an oil tanker.
Western intelligence agencies and maritime security experts have gone further. Some have linked al Qaeda, or militant groups associated with it, to piracy in Indonesia's waters.
Some experts say al Qaeda showed its nautical strategy and sophisticated seaborne attack capability by bombing the Limburg oil tanker off Yemen in 2002 and U.S. warship USS Cole in 2000.
Jemaah Islamiyah, a group whose goal is to create an Islamic state enveloping Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the southern Philippines, has also been identified by experts as capable of hijacking a supertanker and exploding it in the strait.
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This last possibility can have major impact on world commerce and economy. Mansoor Ijaz talked about it a few times on FoxNews.