[caltrop]

Sorry, but the notion that AQ and Saddam are working together is a stretch. Those guys are polar opposites. That AQ gets support from governments in the region is certainly correct but nobody has come up with anything that's credible regarding an AQ - Iraq connection.

The anthrax question is interesting but I'm more inclined towards either North Korea or former Soviet biochemists as the source - in either case generously compensated. AQ has, after all, got plenty of money.

I don't know what to make of the jetliner camp. If, however, Iraq had the resources to train the hijackers and gave AQ access to their facility, why did they risk sending the hijackers here for flight school? After all, had the FBI not bungled they might very well have been caught.

Atta's meeting in Prague with an Iraqi agent isn't entirely credible having been denied, as I recall, by both Czech and our intelligence agencies.

[Monti Cello]

Both are Arabic, Muslim, autocratic, terrorist Middle Eastern groups. They are not polar opposites, but birds of a feather, different strains of the same disease. Just because they may have some supposed ideological conflict does not preclude intelligence and military cooperation in the name of their common goal.

Just last week Saddam was threatening to send terrorist bombers at us and trying to rile up the entire Arab world. Saddam is drawing the connection to the jihad himself.

The Salman Pak jetliner was parked, not used for flight.

Contrary to some gov't spin and shoddy reporting, the Czechs stand by the claim that Atta met Iraqi agents.

[txradioguy]

It was denied by the Czech Intel guys, but their president refuted that claim. I don't think the AQ working with Saddam is a stretch. We've already seen first hand (by our spooks and from first hand recounting by the Kurds) that one of the remaining AQ bigwhigs has set up shop in the northern part of Iraq. And that the towns he's taken over from Kurds are blooming in full Wahabbism. If it served to further his goal of becoming the dominant power in the region, Saddam would side with the devil.