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To: LindyBill who wrote (95735)	4/25/2003 10:59:48 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) of 281500

From Ledeen's piece... The Iranians will combine this political strategy with terrorist acts and assassinations, as in the case of the very charismatic Ayatollah Khoi in Najaf. He was a real threat to them, because of his personality and his solid pro-Western views. So they killed him, and they are planning to kill others of his ilk, along with as many Coalition soldiers as they can murder. Thousands of Iranian-backed terrorists have been sent to Iraq, from Hezbollah killers to the remnants of al Qaeda, from Islamic Jihadists to top Iranian Revolutionary Guards fighters... We have not taken suitable precautions against the infiltration of suicide bombers and terrorists... We cannot defeat this strategy militarily without a level of violence against civilians that would redound against us; we have to use their methods to defeat them... We have won a dazzling military battle, but victory in the war against terrorism is suddenly in peril. We can certainly win, but we are up against a desperate enemy with great skill and cunning, and the cynical ruthlessness that comes from an ancient civilization that has survived countless invaders and occupiers over many millennia. We’d better take them seriously. I don't know if this is funny or scary, but he sounds exactly like me. The only point I'd add is that I think they will target American civilians as much as coalition forces. They don't fight back, and private companies are more likely to pull people out if they are attacked. We can't manage the reconstruction without them, and that creates a point of vulnerability.

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