the New Yorker also made a connection between Saddam and AlQaeda, as well as covering the chemical warfare practiced on the Kurds. They used cropduster planes (Mohammed Atta who flew one of the airliners on 9/11 was seen meeting with Iraqi intelligence in Prague last year.) The Kurds were just practice. If Saddam were to attain nuclear capability, he could just as easily sell the weapon to AlQaeda operatives and no one would know where it came from, if a North American city was a target. How do you respond to that?

(some other tidbits, Saddam is building a giant palace in the shape of his thumbprint and is reputed to be the author behind a series of romance novels)