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To: stockman_scott who wrote (25808)	8/20/2003 9:46:13 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

The goal of creating a better Iraq is a noble one, but a first step will be making sure that ordinary Iraqis find America's ideals and assistance more appealing than Al Qaeda's. <font color=blue> It's been <font color=red>702 <font color=blue>days since Bush said he'd catch Osama bin Laden 'Dead or Alive!'<font color=black> TP

To: stockman_scott who wrote (25808)	8/20/2003 2:20:49 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Thanks for the Jessica Stern article. Hamid Mir, a biographer of Osama bin Laden, has been traveling in Iraq and told me that Hezbollah has greatly stepped up its activities not only in Shiite regions but also in Baghdad. I've long believed that Hezbollah would be "active" in Iraq. In my post of last night Message 19225451 these guys are definitely in the "pro" category. Hezbollah has been credited with inventing the modern notion and use of 'suicide bombing', and is said to have provided training to terrorist groups HAMAS and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Its most infamous attack is probably the October 1983 suicide bombing of a US Marine barracks in Beirut which killed 241 US and 56 French soldiers. from aph.gov.au Interesting that they have "greatly stepped up" activities in Baghdad, and the truck bombs at the Jordanian Embassy and the UN headquarters. Hezbollah knows truck bombs. So now we have reports of Hezbollah and Hamas in Iraq. With all of the Saudi extremist crossing the Iraq border, a reasonable inference is that Al Qaeda is there also. This means that on the surface we have a Shia Sunni alliance Message 19217046 and, sub rosa, a budding modus vivendi between Hezbollah and Al Qaeda. A key Al Qaeda attribute is it’s “global reach”. Certainly, Al Qaeda has been hurt since 9-11, but the Iraqi invasion has provided an infusion of “new blood”. If it can maintain it’s “global reach”, and “offer” that capability to Hezbollah et al., expect Homeland Security to be tested. As I said last night, all of this is still disorganized, but give it time. The neo-con thesis in the Middle East is producing its Hegelian antithesis. JMO lurqer