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To: NickSE who wrote (17816)	11/26/2003 1:23:20 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 793600

Garner says "If we did it over again, we probably would have put more dismounted infantrymen in Baghdad and maybe more troops there," Hi Ghost, Interesting isnt it that we feared to put folks on the ground initially for fear of terrorism and then we allowed things to fester so a much more potent form of terror arose later on. If we had put those cats on the ground, there may at that point in time been little or no organized resistance. Stories of all wars are full of mistakes and missed opportunities. Sometimes folks lose their jobs like garner did. For political reasons, Bush probably should look for someone to fire and replace with a more widely respected non-neocon type. Some folks screwed up and it is probably a good thing to change faces a bit and continue the effort. What we dont want to is let the fog of war make us forget our righteous objectives. And those objectives while they include democracy and capitalism in iraq are more about freedom and self determination for the iraqi people in a system that THEY, not US will have to live in. That is the biggest danger in Bush rhetoric--the expressed desire to make iraq over in our image. What they need is progressive islam(both shiaa and sunni), a federal solution that works and public participation. This does not rule out an Islamic presence or a strong leader. Mike

To: NickSE who wrote (17816)	11/26/2003 9:51:31 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793600

USS Cole bombing mastermind nabbed in Yemen straitstimes.asia1.com.sg SANAA - Yemen's security forces have detained a top Al-Qaeda man, a suspected mastermind of the deadly suicide bombings of the USS Cole and a French oil tanker off the country's coast. Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal had evaded arrest despite heading the Arab state's wanted list for nearly two years. The official Yemeni news agency, Saba, said the man, also known as Abu Asem al-Macci, surrendered to police after they surrounded a house in the capital, Sanaa, where the Islamic militant had been hiding. In Washington, a US counter-terrorism official said Ahdal had been among the top 20 to 25 Al-Qaeda leaders still at large and called his capture a significant development. 'He was a key Al-Qaeda facilitator in Yemen,' said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. 'He was believed to be involved in planning terrorist operations.' The official said Ahdal also had an important financial role in moving Al-Qaeda money around. Yemeni security officials believe Ahdal was one of the masterminds of the 2000 bombing of the Cole, which killed 17 US sailors, and the 2002 bombing of the French oil tanker, Limburg. In each of those attacks, an explosives-laden boat was piloted up to the larger ship and detonated. The Limburg attack killed a Bulgarian crew member and spilled 90,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Aden. Ahdal had significant combat experience in Afghanistan in the 1980s and in Bosnia in 1990s, and also had a lot of contacts in Al-Qaeda, the official added. -- Reuters, AP