Well, it like any mob boss in the US. If they authorities take down some of the big guys, then they have an opportunity to greatly take away from the public effectiveness of the rest of the organization.
Take away Osama from Al-Qaida, and you have a group of people, public perception is greatly affected. Look at major corporations, you think the CEO or the rest of the board knows every deal that goes down? While a change in leadership may change how the public looks at things, it doesn't have to change the way the company works. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:30 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Report: Al-Qaida Leaders Deny Working With Iraq > > You might be right. There is some good logic in what you say. But they > were > crowing over this guy the other week, it was the victory over terrorism du > jour. I suspect he will suddenly become a nobody. I guess I just dislike > being lied to. > > Dana > > Nick McClure writes: > > > Here is part of my point: > > > > How can we trust that the CIA knows the rank of these guys in the first > > place? > > > > It seems to me, that if these guys were high ranking, then there are a > lot > > of high ranking Al-Qaida officials running around, considering the loss > of > > these guys haven't really stopped any thing. > > > > I think we(the public) only know some of these figure heads are. Al- > Qaida is > > more like a country than a gang. They have people who are big names, but > > they don't actually operate the day to day. One group may have gotten > > funding from Iraq, and Osama himself didn't even know about it. > > > > We don't know what the facts are, we don't really understand the > complexity > > of this group, now is the CIA going to let us know all of it, as doing > so > > would compromise everything. > > > > Even in terror organizations they need plausible deniability. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:04 PM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: Re: Report: Al-Qaida Leaders Deny Working With Iraq > > > > > > That Sheik Mohammed guy... I'd have to look this up but weren't they > > > saying > > > he was second in command or something when they captured him last > week? > > > > > > Nick McClure writes: > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
