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To: GST who wrote (118082)	10/30/2003 12:01:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Iraqis increasingly view the US as an army of occupation, al Qaeda can swell its ranks immensely by tapping a groundswell of anti-US sentiment -- and with several hundred attacks in recent days this is arguably exactly what we are seeing GST, you read Friedman but you didn't listen to a word he said. The Iraqis don't want to be ruled by Baathists or Al Qaeda. That's who is running these attacks. It's a rear guard guerilla war, run by those who lost power and want it back. Friedman compared them to the Khmer Rouge, that's not a bad comparison. If it were an anti-occupation groundswell as you say, it would be happening all over, because the occupation is all over. It's not. It's happening in the Sunni triangle with few exceptions.