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To: tejek who wrote (364040)	12/21/2007 7:28:32 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1574446

I suspect when we leave al Qaida will leave. Thats a view based in naive ignorance. AQ's leadership has said they intend to install a caliphate anywhere in the Arab world they can, particularly in Iraq if possible. From a letter from al Zawahiri, AQ's second in command, to the then leader of AQ in Iraq: "..and it is my humble opinion that the Jihad in Iraq requires several incremental goals: The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq. The second stage: Establish an Islamic authority or amirate, then develop it and support it until it achieves the level of a caliphate- over as much territory as you can to spread its power in Iraq, i.e., in Sunni areas, is in order to fill the void stemming from the departure of the Americans, immediately upon their exit and before un-Islamic forces attempt to fill this void, whether those whom the Americans will leave behind them, or those among the un-Islamic forces who will try to jump at taking power. There is no doubt that this amirate will enter into a fierce struggle with the foreign infidel forces, and those supporting them among the local forces, to put it in a state of constant preoccupation with defending itself, to make it impossible for it to establish a stable state which could proclaim a caliphate, and to keep the Jihadist groups in a constant state of war, until these forces find a chance to annihilate them." globalsecurity.org cpt-mi.org. ------------------------------------------ Nevertheless the major invasion liberals were hoping for hasn't happened. Huh? Who was hoping for a major invasion? And this was not a one time shot. Turkey isn't about to go quietly into the nite. You'er not hoping for a major Turkish invasion and the next one will be bigger. And Turkey and Kurdistan really big trading partners. And the Kurds have eyes on eastern Turkey where the Turkish Kurds live as well as western Iran where the Iranian Kurds live.....that is what constitutes Kurdistan. How do you think the Turks [and the Iranians] feel about dem apples. Esp Turkey because the Kurds and the Turks have been fighting for decades and the Kurdish militia has branches in Turkey. The national rivalries are all the more reason business relations are desirable. I hope someday the Turks will end the oppression of its Kurdish population.