To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45018 ) 11/20/2003 1:59:35 AM From: Bilow Respond to Hi IQBAL LATIF; Re: "And I would like to reiterate my response to that particular post on March 31, 2003. "[In] Iraq short of urban battle, the opportunities for a guerrilla like campaign are negligible. "FM 90-8 Counterguerilla Operations globalsecurity.org I think you completely overlooked the Peshmergas. ... In case of Afghanistan once Mazar-e- Sheriff had fallen National Alliance was the key factor that helped overcome lack of US infantry on the ground. "If the southerners or Iraqis who are hard marshland people (not urbanites Baghdadis who are far more refined ) owned guns than Brits would not have deserted helmets to Berets. "British troops abandon their berets and return to their helmets after six of their colleagues were shot dead. cnn.com If this scenario of your would be true I should have seen a lot more weapons from Iran and huge number of Iranian volunteers already in the south of Iraq. That is not the case and definitely if that was a case the war would have taken entirely different shape. "DEFENSE SECRETARY RUMSFELD WARNS SYRIA, IRAN During a Pentagon briefing Friday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld issued a warning to Syria, who he accused of selling military equipment to Iraq, and to Iran, who he said is backing anti-Saddam Hussein Shiite fighters who have entered the war zone . pbs.org A regional conflict where Iran gets involved will take the whole global economy into tailspin, you know why? "
