Well, The Horn certainly would have interested Rand and opened a line of communication with the Salidar Aes Sedai...mutual need would have made that certain.

But I reckon Rand could have managed to piss them off fairly quickly without much effort knowing him. Also, unless they held the Horn back from Rand I don't see how it would tie them together and holding it back would just piss off Rand. At best it could be used as a bargaining chip.

Can anybody say circular arguement?? lol :P

I've seen the exact same points and the exact same counter points on about 3 of the pages now...can't we all just get along? :D