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Dontreadonme
Mar 8 2003, 03:09 PM
Your not catching the analogy here.

As Paladin pointed out:
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The U.S. knows who most of them are because of the units they were captured with. If you are engaged with an Al Qaeda battalion and you capture a few guys toting AK-47s, it's a reasonable assumption that they are part of Al Qaeda.

It is a SIMILAR situation to our experience with the VC in Vietnam.
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Paladin
Mar 8 2003, 03:23 PM
QUOTE(Eeyore @ Mar 8 2003, 12:29 PM)
from Paladin
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The U.S. knows who most of them are because of the units they were captured with. If you are engaged with an Al Qaeda battalion and you capture a few guys toting AK-47s, it's a reasonable assumption that they are part of Al Qaeda.


This is faulty logic and most unreasonable. Were we facing Al-Qaeda in Vietnam?



Let me repeat, if we are engaging an Al Qaeda Battalion, and happen to capture a few guys toting Ak-47s, its a reasonable assumption that they are part of Al Qaeda.

As far as I know, the Viet Cong didn't fight in Al Qaeda battalions.
Eeyore
Mar 9 2003, 04:19 AM
DTOM and Paladin

You are both correct. I misread the comment. My apologies.
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