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Originally posted by Jimbo
There is very little evidence of top down recruitment in AQ. Folks I know have used the recruitment chapter from HFCUI as a hypothesis for investigating this current issue and have not found more than a few incidents to back it up. Granted, they COULD get their act together and do some good recruitng, however that would leave tehm open to penetration and frankly, enough people want to join that they do not have to recruit all that much. From open sources, recruitment more accurately consists of facilitation of travel to a camp.
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If I had hair, this thread would make it hurt. And why do you think that there is very little evidence of top down recruitment? Folks are going to be recruited at different levels with different vetting for different jobs. Those that are being recruited for AQ are going to be put thru sufficient vetting hoops to ensure that in fact they are who they say they are and can do that what it is for which they are being recruited. Foot soldiers who are needed for low level "fire and forget" jobs are going to be rounded up off the streets, runs through whatever tests need to be done, given what limited training they need, and sent off on their expendable way. I doubt if you are going to see any of the movement's leaders strapped down with explosives. There are several issues here. One is that in addition to the madrassas and mullahs are the tribal loyalties and affiliations. When that bond is broken and kids wander into the cities to find jobs they have lost all bonds that they had under the tribal leaders that controlled them. This becomes one of the centers of gravity for defeating islamic terrorists-do what is needed to allow the tribal leaders to maintain the bonds over those that would stray. The other center of gravity here, seems to be, the poplulation in general that have had their religion co-opted by the radical fundamentalists supported by the madrassas and mullahs. The effort here is to invalidate the brand of islam that is being spewed forth and revalidate the non-fundamental brand of islam. Just my opinion.
Jack Moroney