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To: FaultLine who wrote (57169)	11/14/2002 7:38:08 PM
From: epsteinbd	Respond to of 281500

No, we won't shut up about an Irak-AQ connection! There was the same Herculean work done looking for some bones of Muhammed and his horse in Jerusalem, but as nothing was found, they did go up to heaven, say a billion people or so. I could have said Jesus, or Moses, even.

To: FaultLine who wrote (57169)	11/14/2002 9:06:38 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Someone passed me a copy of that forthcoming FA article by Michael Doran that I mentioned earlier, and it's sort of changed my thinking on this issue. Previously, I've been firmly in the "there's no Saddam-al Qaeda connection" camp, and on the specific level of actual events (9/11, future terrorism, etc.), I still believe that. But Doran argues that on a broader level they do indeed belong in the same category, since they're both die-hard, implacable foes of the current American-sponsored order in the Middle East. It's an interesting, sophisticated rationale for why these two particular threats both need to be dealt with urgently for similar reasons, and doesn't depend on any cooked intelligence or fanciful leaps of imagination regarding future events. Anyway, the article will be an interesting and provocative read when it appears, I think. tb@openminded.com