[Bonaparte]

Here's more on the aid and comfort Iraq has been giving to its "bitter enemy," Al Qaeda.

[caltrop]

I'm familiar with most of the very thin reeds people are trying to use to connect Iraq and al Qaeda. As the article mentioned, there are plenty of skeptics out there. I'm one of them. If al Qaeda really wants WMD North Korea will sell them to them. You may recall that the Spanish Navy intercepted a ship carrying missiles from NK to Sudan in December.

When I was a student at the Army War College in the mid-80s we were briefed on Iraq's biological and chemical programs. They even had the name of the woman in charge of the program, nicknamed Dr. Bugs. Since then, nobody has been able to connect Iraq with exporting any of this stuff. Iraq is a buyer not a seller. North Korea is a seller to anybody with the price, which al Qaeda (and perhaps other terrorists) clearly has.