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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (476242)	10/15/2003 1:24:45 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Emile, re:Iraq War Swells Al Qaeda's Ranks, Report Says Didn't we all expect this to occur for a time, even the Bush administration claimed this would probably occur. What will be interesting is if it subsides over time or continues to grow. The article appears balanced with it's section: "On the plus side, war in Iraq has denied al Qaeda a potential supplier of weapons of mass destruction and discouraged state sponsors of terrorism from continuing to support it," the report said. "On the minus side, war in Iraq has probably inflamed radical passions among Muslims and thus increased al Qaeda's recruiting power and morale and, at least marginally, its operating capability," it said. "The immediate effect of the war may have been to isolate further al Qaeda from any potential state supporters while also swelling its ranks and galvanizing its will." Only the headline appears to grab at you, the content is less alarming.