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To: Dale Baker who wrote (12194)	2/15/2006 6:40:33 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540859

Yes Al Qaida is a loose organization it doesn't quite have a single pool, but I still think it need to make trade offs. No organization has unlimited resources. I think that Al Qaida can get more resources from Iraq for use in Iraq, because of American involvment in Iraq. OTOH it also loses resources to American and Iraqi government actions (and also against the British and other involved allies). More recently I've even heard of other insurgent groups fighting Al Qaida, although whether this is significant or just a few isolated incidents I don't really know. Our adversary is using our size and lack of mobility against us They are using tactics that allow them to get by with a much lower size, but I'm not sure how that is actually using our size against us. If our size was much lower their tactics would in many cases work better. There would be less targets for them to hit, but these targets are pretty tough, and there would also be less force going on the offense against them, or protecting installations and the supply chain. I'm not sure what you mean by lack of mobility. Tim