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<DIV>The below is roughly what happened in Chechnya, BTW. Especially the last sentence.</DIV>
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<DIV>MICHAEL WARE: Absolutely. I've been tracking the insurgency for over a <BR>year<BR>now. I've been joining their groups, visiting then in their safe <BR>houses,<BR>their villages, I've been travelling with them, I've seen their weapons<BR>caches, I've been trying to keep as close tabs as possible over the <BR>last 12<BR>months. I've seen the shift. Men I know, professional military officers <BR>from<BR>the Republican Guards, the secret police, these men are in the military <BR>for<BR>a career. They fought for their nation. Two years ago they were out <BR>drinking<BR>and whoring under the regime, a year ago they're out defending their <BR>homes.<BR>Now, they're talking about how they want an Islamic state for Iraq. <BR>They<BR>didn't dream of that six months ago. Sharia law, they want a <BR>pan-Islamic<BR>Khilafati, they now adhere to the extremist teachings in Saudi Arabia, <BR>they<BR>didn't care about anything beyond their borders before now.<BR><BR>TONY JONES: What has
happened is this change has occurred, particularly <BR>in<BR>the last six months.<BR><BR>MICHAEL WARE: We used to have a two track war, a terrorist war with<BR>terrorists such as Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the suicide bombings, the<BR>assassinations the symbolic political strikes, but the daily drip feed <BR>of<BR>attacks were the guerrillas fighting for Iraq, when Saddam was captured <BR>in<BR>the time that evolved, the coffers of the Baath started to dry up the<BR>squeeze was on. So they turned elsewhere, what did they find? Terrorist<BR>money - with that comes ideological baggage, new membership, a change <BR>in<BR>tactics and ideology.<BR></DIV><p>
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