No, no, Islamists and Pan-Arabists would never have common cause.

Found at Ba'athist headquarters in Nasiriyah. It's been a year and a half since September 11th, yes - so this could simply be "immoral support." But that alone defies the smug conclusion that terrorists and dictators would remain indefinitely at odds because of their methodologies, regardless of the fact that they're all cut from the same bestial will, the human-domination cloth.

And if it's not simply sociopathic cheerleading, quite a few feet will be planted firmly in quite a few mouths. And the necessity for destroying terrorism through the dismantling of authoritarian regimes, not to mention democratization, will be well-vindicated.