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To: RetiredNow who wrote (212596)	12/3/2004 6:04:06 PM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1573954

Ansar al-Islam is a radical Kurdish Islamic group that is supportive of Saddam Hussein's regime. This group is located in the pseudo-autonomous Northern Iraq. This group has ties with Taliban and al-Qaeda. It is the most radical group operating in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. It's going to be very hard for you or me to sift through all the crap coming out of Iraq and determine reliable from unreliable. I know this...Iraq has never attacked the US, the country was under the tight control of a regime that cracked down on dissidents, and, despite what one may think of Saddam, he certainly knew, as do the Iranians, that the US in crisis can crush it without spilling a drop of American blood. That means the unthinkable of course, but not the impossible. That level of deterrence would not work against AlQueda, but it is very effective against nations like Iraq and Iran. Now that Iraq has been invaded, GWB has given ALQueda the best gift anyone could, that is a fertile recruiting environment of an uncontrollable pool of terrorists and martyrs, sworn enemies of what they view as an aggressive America bent on subjugating Arabs for their resources. True or not, this claim is exploited by AQ to inflame underground terror ranks that cannot be defeated, as the Israelis have learned over the last 60 years. Al