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To: kumar who wrote (2107)	7/9/2007 12:36:37 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 4152

The evidence of the role of special forces in Afghanistan is broadly understood. We did not invade with large force -- we used special forces to mobilize local resources -- providing evidence should not be necessary. As for redeployment, the use of timing of the shift in special forces to prepare the ground for full scale involvement Iraq is not easily documented by public access document -- you would need first hand knowledge of this. The role of our special forces has evolved into an array of roles, not the least of which is to mirror the fighting capability of terrorist cells and to penetrate terrorist networks. This is not a resource we have in abundance -- quite the opposite, it is as scarce as it is pricelessly valuable to our self-defense. If you want to know if our special forces were redeployed when they were right in the middle of dismantling bin laden, and told instead to prepare the ground for the invasion of Iraq, I suggest you find one and ask him.