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To: one_less who wrote (237961)	7/26/2007 1:22:48 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I think you track them. But as they do with the mob, I think it's critical to know who belongs to whom, and who the outsiders are. That's not to say the outsiders may not be insiders one day, but messing up the organizational chart when you report on them seems absolutely counterproductive to me.

To: one_less who wrote (237961)	7/26/2007 1:29:03 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't see the two (AQ and AQ-lite) as mutually exclusive. For example, it was reported that Zarqawi split from OBL over some rift. Then when he had some successful operations in Iraq they began nuzzling again. That is true, AQ is hardly rift-free. But Zarqawi was considered by himself and AQ as part of the AQ, and so was al-Masri his sucessor. The reports coming out of Iraq are saying that the top officer core of AQI is part of AQ (so much so that they invented an Iraqi, Omar al-Baghdadi to give more of a local face to it) though as we saw from Zarqawi's course of action that Zawahiri couldn't override his decisions even when he disagreed with them.