In the Past Bin Ladin has timed releases shortly before terrorist attacks
We'll Bin Ladin's mercenaries do this time.
I don't think the Islamists will have any more success establishing an Islamic religous government in Iraq than they are already having in Afganistan: In otherwords, they won't have much success at all. Especially when you factor in that there is really no-where to hide in Iraq: Big Brother knows all. And Iraqi freedom and Democracy will be enforced by the new Iraqi government.
Scott