To: Sun Tzu who wrote (116106 ) 10/3/2003 8:49:29 AM From: Sig Respond to <<<I think you are mixing too many issues here. Afghans do not speak Arabic; they speak Dari which is dialect of Persian (almost like the difference between France's French and Canada's). Both Afghans and Iranians (and Tajiks and certain portions of other nations) can understand each other easily and are mostly Muslim. So you could recruit them for your cross border communications. Most of them do not sympathize with Arabs, so in theory it should be even easier to get them involved in Iraq. In fact, the tribal ties that you mention means that it is much easier to get an Afghan or an Iraqi to cooperate against members of other tribes than not. So that too is not a problem.
