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Saturday, September 11, 2004

 AT.  Back to Afghanistan.  Islamic guerrillas are gearing up an insurgency to put the US into a two front war.  By the end of Bush's next administration, we should be up to our ears in two hot guerrilla wars.  Remember, this is fourth generation warfare.  It turns strength into weakness.  There are better ways to prevent another 9/11 other than getting caught in a trap like this.

Our amazing military, when bogged down in hot guerrilla wars transforms itself into an extremely expensive, legitimacy depleting liability.  For example, we have set up a situation where we can't lose either Afghanistan or Iraq.  Two hot guerrilla wars would put all of the military assets we have into those theaters.  The additional cost would run well in excess of $400 b a year.  Casualties and confusion would rise as attention is divided between the theaters.  This situation would then make it possible to strike at other areas (Saudi Arabia inparticular) with impunity.  Events would be staged to bait the US into expanding new areas of operations.  The key here is to inflate the bubble of US power to the point it become vulnerable to catastrophic failure.  Add global guerrilla systemic disruption to the mix and we are in for a disaster.

Note:  This effort is led by mens such as Mansoor:  Mansoor is the son of Nasrullah Mansoor, one of the most respected Afghan guerrilla leaders from the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, who terrorized Soviet troops around Gardez. Saifullah Mansoor's reputation as a chip off the old block was cemented when in April 2002 he led a raid in which 18 US soldiers were killed in a guerrilla attack at Shahi Kot in the Zarmat area.
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 WT.   The reality is there are "a load of contracts" with U.S. agencies attracting veterans of Special Forces and other elite units to Pakistan, one source told The Washington Times.
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