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To: pompsander who wrote (5317)	6/1/2007 7:43:21 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25737

it shows the people of Iraq are tired of Alqueda, how's Hugo Chavez country going ?

To: pompsander who wrote (5317)	6/1/2007 9:10:08 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 25737

Turf fight between the 1920 Revolution Brigades (Baathists mostly...) and al Qaeda and associated Sunni tribesmen, over control of Baqouba. Both sets of insurgents fight regularly against the American occupation (one from nationalist motivations, the other from religious and trans-national Arabist principles), but it's interesting to see the secularist vs. Islamicist aspects of it play out. The 'whack a mole' aspect of the American 'surge' strategy, surging forces into the capital, has - and will no doubt - cause turk battles to play out in the hinterlands a bit more... instead of in the capital quite as much. (But the recent kidnapping of the British from within 'government-secured' buildings there in the capital, mostly likely by Shia militas allied with the Shia factions controlling the government, has also illustrated that this 'disperse to the hinterlands' effect is relative, not absolute.