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To: RMF who wrote (305359)	10/9/2006 1:45:25 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571871

You realize Afghanistan is still a NATO intervention - don't we still have "the world on our side" there? Yeah, it would have been great to have gotten OBL, but let's not fool ourselves - AQ would continue w/o him. As it stands now, al Qaida has pretty much "free reign" in Pakistan, Western Iraq and Somolia and I don't see anything that we can really do about it. Western Pakistan perhaps, though we have hit sites there as recently as a few months ago. I expect we'll continue to do so. As for western Iraq, saying AQ is operating there is an argument we should be fighting them there. Somalia - developments remain to be seen. We've turned one "small" group of terrorists into an international JIHAD, with cells everywhere. It wasn't a small group of terrorists. It was always an int'l jihad. AQ was an international coalition of terror groups - Abu Sayyaf in the Phillipines is a part of it, so are Chechnyan terrorists, the Egyptian terror group which killed Sadat, and more. Thousands of Muslims from all over the world went to Afghanistan for terror training, including North Africans, European Muslims and a few Americans.