IIS group says there is 18K al queda is same group who said Iraq had WMDS.

[radwriter0555]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040526/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida&cid=540&ncid=716


Al-Qaida is probably working on plans for major attacks on the United States and Europe, and it may be seeking weapons of mass destruction in its desire to inflict as many casualties as possible, the International Institute of Strategic Studies said in its annual survey of world affairs.

Here is the ISS:
http://www.iiss.org/

Here is their famous Iraqi dossier....

http://www.iiss.org/news-more.php?itemID=88

I rule.

[papau]

1. no nuclear . a bioweapons capability and small chem stockpile - Good Analy

"Today, after four years without inspections, there can be no certainty about the extent of Iraq’s current capacities. A reasonable net assessment is that Iraq has no nuclear weapons but could build one quickly if it acquired sufficient fissile material. It has extensive biological weapons capabilities and a smaller chemical weapons stockpile. It has a small force of ballistic missiles with a range of 650km, that are capable of delivering CBW warheads, and has prepared other delivery methods for CBW, including manned aircraft and UAVs. Sooner or later, it seems likely that the current Iraqi regime will eventually achieve its objectives."

I wish the US had been as clear and honest as these folks.

[enough]

2. radwriter, your message is interesting but rather cryptic.

You seem to be saying that their WMD analysis was wrong, and therefore we shoudn't believe their Al-Qaida projections. But the IISS Iraq dossier that you link seems to be fairly modest in its claims about WMD. Maybe I'm reading it wrong.

Could you explain a little more fully.

[radwriter0555]

3. the point is that the IIS is a rather bogus op whose info in the past has

been used to bolster far bigger lies, such as the WMD claims in iraq.

So why would they tell the truth about al queda....?