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To: epsteinbd who wrote (56939)	11/13/2002 2:17:21 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

There is a serious flaw in Nichols demonstration when he states that the 9-11 was an AQ strategical mistake: AQ assumed that all the air attacks will succeed, thus that the US will be left with no leader alive. I don't see how anyone can dispute that 9/11 was a strategic mistake for AQ, once you take both sides' responses into account. The whole point of Nichols' arguments is that OBL does not take his enemies responses into account, whether he is too ignorant to do so or just doesn't care for reasons of ideology. If he is not taking America's likely responses into account, it doesn't really matter exactly how much damage he expected the attack to achieve. It would achieve what it would achieve, and it was up to Allah to do the rest.