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Originally Posted by Undertoad
They labeled themselves AQ. bin Laden labeled them AQ in an audio tape, if you believe he's alive and made audio tapes. bin Laden said Iraq is where the battle is, if you believe he's alive and made audio tapes.
Thousands upon thousands of hardass foreign fighters entered Iraq just for the chance to blow up some infidels. Not AQ? I guess -- AQ doesn't hand out membership cards. But also, we are not at war with AQ. We're at war with radical Islamists (but we can't SAY we're at war with radical Islamists). When they design to kill us, anything that discourages them or kills them, without making more of them, is a good thing.
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A shitload of what the Pentagon were calling "AQ", battling us in Iraq, said they are not AQ, they are Iraqis. They then joined with the U.S. Coalition in defeating the other ones the Pentagon had labeled AQs.
Using "AQ" as a blanket title for Islamic radicals is OK, as long as people realize it's not a stable, cohesive, easily targeted group. In reality, the radical Islamists are dozens, maybe hundreds, of groups in constant flux. They're making and breaking alliances constantly, with each leader trying to accomplish his own agenda. The only thing they really have in common is using hate-the-Infidels as a recruiting/rallying point.