Posted by
Tim Blessing on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:18:19 PM
Al Qaeda simply translated mean's the base.
It is a movement with many independent operatoring cells with no direct connection with each other, except over the Internet.
It is not a monolithic organization like the PLO or Hizbollah.
That mean's its decentralized with the center (if it exists) acting as an inspirational force instead of a command team.
An unorganized guerilla force in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and mainly in the Middle East.
A cell can form in Iraq like they've done on numerous occassions and call themselves the muslim soldiers or whatever.
They imply they have thousands of members when its a small band.
These cells get money mainly from Saudi Arabia.
A large plurality of these terrorists in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia.
The rest come from North Africa or the Middle East.
You don't see many East Asians taking on this Iraq Project.
They are good at making bombs and usually limit themselves to spectacular displays of terrorism.
Most of them are educated Arab Males and some females.
They can't accept the fact that the West and Far East and soon Russia outclass Islam as a dominant force in the world.
You will never defeat them on the battlefield in the Middle East because they have the home field advantage (football).
You have isolate the problem: Arab Radicalism as much as possible, until it burn's itself out.
The Eisenhower Doctrine: Containment of Arab Nationalism by an author I can't remember has the best overview of this phenomenom. The actors have switched places, but the basic facts haven't changed.
Arabs are good at terrorism, but they are lousy at conventional warfare.
Special Operations and Intel People have a better feel for rooting out this phenomenom than do people in conventional military forces.
Why? I don't know. Arabs from a cultural standpoint are hottempered and extremely patient and extremely warlike all at the same time.