[pgyanke]

Asked to detail the precise role of Iraq in al Qaeda operations directed against the U.S., Mylroie told WABC, "Al Qaeda acts as a front for Iraqi intelligence. Al Qaeda provides the ideology, the foot soldiers and the cover. And Iraqi intelligence provides the direction, training and expertise."

Wow... finally someone in the news gets it--and says it. Al Qaida, Al Hamza, Hamas, et al are the Arab nations' militant arm. While the Western forces go abroad to fight under the auspices of their nations (and their nations accept the consequences of these actions), the Arab nations have distanced themselves from their forces abroad. The result is the ability to attack and deny at the same time. This means their regimes and territories are not exposed to the consequences earned through terrorism. International anger is instead directed toward the unnamed, shaded "terrorists."

Finally someone is saying what must be said and exposing the reason for Saudi, Iranian, Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese, Pakistani, et al support for the families of known terrorists.

[carton253]

Have you read her book?

[Pearls Before Swine]

...the Arab nations have distanced themselves from their forces abroad. The result is the ability to attack and deny at the same time...

If proven, or especially if widely accepted whether true or not, this could result in the wholesale destruction of the Arab innocent with the guilty. Consider what would happen if a couple of CBW aerosol canisters go off in Tel Aviv and New York. Baghdad could well be vaporized, even though Saddam would have trapped many civilians who wish they were elsewhere in the city.