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To: tejek who wrote (185023)	3/17/2004 3:52:40 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578012

Is their organizational structure and MO the same as al Qaeda? No. That's the key when determining how to eradicate them. With the Taliban, we could go in all guns blazing. That approach has worked to a good degree because they were mostly above ground. Of course, now they too have gone underground and are harder to nail. It doesn't work with al Qaeda because they are mostly like an iceberg loosely connected to other icebergs. With them, we have to go underground to find them. For some reason, we balk at that approach. That's too bad because we will be forever on the short end of the stick until we deal with them mano a mano. Once again its that black and white issue....one size fits all. Its a very neocon American attitude. Gosh Ted, I don't know...I am just not sure you can slice the bologna this thin. These were pretty nasty people, not so unlike AQ, who gave sanctuary to AQ and probably contributed to the ranks of AQ. I am not sure we have the luxury of psychoanalyzing them before we bomb the $hit out of them, after a 9/11 event and ample warnings to cooperate. I definitely agree that Iraq took the eye of the US off the ball, if that is the point. I may be missing some subtle other point here... Al