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To me AQ is like a monster with several heads, cut one off and another pops up to take its place. This fight won't ever be over
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I agree that AQ is like the Hydra. And like Heracles we have certainly figured out that to remove one head only resulted in a another growing in it's place. Again borrowing from Heracles we have figured out that once the head is severed the wound must be cauterized to prevent the growth of a new "head".
The cauterization occurred after our troops killed Abu Misssorry. Raids were conducted, intelligence materials gathered, and their organization became somewhat of an open book.
I am an optimist and I firmly believe that this is the beginning of the end. I might be overly optimistic in thinking that the Chechnyan Leaders discovery and death was somehow linked to what was learned from MsSorry's documents.
Dismantling AQ does not resolve all the concerns of this war. It does allow us to concentrate our efforts against fewer concerns. I also found it interesting that AQ in Iraq would identify MsSorry's replacement. This Egyptian understudy just put a large target on his torso. Take him out quickly and I bet the next in line is a little less apt to have the AQ Public Information Officer release his identity!