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To: Sam who wrote (238011)	7/26/2007 9:39:41 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Al Qaeda in Iraq doesn't even come close to having the support or the infrastructure that Saddam had in place. And they are NOT "the only outfit in town with big guns, organization, and utter ruthlessness." You keep asserting this. Based on what evidence? We know how many of Saddam's enforcers have wound up in AQI. They know how to keep Iraqis in line, if anybody does. What is making you say that the Sunnis were kicking Al Qaeda out all on their own, with no help from the Marines or anybody else? Where is your evidence? AQ has been fostering the civil war, setting bombs along the fault lines in Iraqi society, blowing up Shia, taking over Sunni strongholds like Baqubah and declaring them part of an AQ Emirate. If they had no organized opposition, they would succeed. This is no fantasy, this is what is being reported from the ground. What makes you say different?