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To: michael97123 who wrote (662)	5/22/2007 12:18:24 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

Getting OBL in Pakistan is extremely important. Yeah, BUT : Pakistan says he is not in Pakistan. Thats what we get for $1B/year to them to fight terrorism.

To: michael97123 who wrote (662)	5/22/2007 5:05:06 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4152

I disagree. OBL is the Chairman of the Board of Al Queda Inc.. OBL is no more the current chairman of AQ than Bill W is the current chairman of AA, or Al Gore is the President of the Internet. OBL was and is important to some of our eyes, but not to the terrorists. Like AA and the Internet, AQ is highly decentralized for both recruiting and operations. Just as nobody knows how many members belong to AA, nor how many cells (meetings) AA has; and nobody knows how many servers work the Internet at any given time, nor do they know how many servers joined up today, this week, this month or this year; so it is for AQ. Nobody knows how many cells are in AQ, what their recruiting statistics are, nor what operations are being planned and where. Even OBL does not know. AQ is world-wide. We only know it is growing. But neither we nor OBL have a handle on how big or how fast. The book Starfish and The Spider describes a hybrid flat leaderless organization. It is in essence flat and leaderless like AA and the Internet, but it does have a bump in it that could be described as a primitive central nervous system that may influence parts of the whole, but has no overall control. That to me is descriptive of AQ. Each cell has an activist. Cells vary in size and composition. There is no standard. Zawahiri is the activist in his cell. Nothing more nothing less, except in the eyes of MSM. Eliminating OBL and Zawahiri will neither disrupt operations nor recruiting. AQ has grown way beyond a coupla of whacky guys with an idea. AQ has something much larger than those two driving it now. AQ has highly motivated religious fervor going for it. AQ members do not consider Jihad a battle. They accept Jihad as a permanent lifestyle and prefer to die in battle.