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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5372)	3/31/2003 8:39:12 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

You should be asking yourself why you are trying to separate the two issues [Iraq & Bin Ladin] Because they are two separate issues with no relation in between. The only similarity is the religion and not even much of that, since Saddam runs a SECULAR country, much to Bin Ladin's distaste. So many people have the same religion with each other on this planet that it is absurd to bunch together two people or groups based on them having the same religion. The rest of your post goes off on that tangent, and hence, has nothing to do with my original question, to which you replied with this irrelevant Bin Ladin commentary. My question was: And why would we suppose anything of the sort, knowing full well that Saddam's regime has never been convincingly linked to Al-Qaeda or any other terrorist group? And why 5% and not 0.5% or 15%? ... and it was to a part of the report you have posted, that said: suppose that the current Iraqi regime raises the probability of a terrorist attack of the same magnitude as 9/11 by 5 percent per year (one additional attack every 20 years). Message 18776158