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To: Ilaine who started this subject	3/28/2003 3:42:20 PM
From: Ilaine	of 486

>>Guerilla tactics are nothing new for the U.S. military but are unlikely to dog the invasion in the same manner mujahidin fighters did the Soviets in Afghanistan or the Vietnamese did the Americans, Pike said. The Soviets and Americans "were confronting guerilla groups that were proxies for an external superpower," he said. "Saddam's Feyadeen does not have an external political base." "These guys have no superpower bankrolling them," he added. "It is pretty much a come-as-you-are party for these guys."<< globalsecurity.org I suspect that Saddam himself has billions squirreled away to buy weapons with, and he's got the sympathy of Al Qaeda, according to recent news reports, but is that the functional equivalent of proxy backing by the US, Soviet Union or China during the Cold War?

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