Quote Originally Posted by aktarian View Post
Which has both it advantages and disadvantages. The most obvious disadvantage is that they can't coordinate forces to launch coordinated actions on large scale. The advantage is that counterinsurgency can't decapitate them by killing couple of people and thus remove entire leadership nor can it infiltrate them all to same level. If you destroy one group there are many more that are still up and running.

Afghan muyahedeen had similar "structure".
Oh, I agree with you. But this is a classic opportunity for counterinsurgency to take advantage of. Right now both sides are not very well coordinated to deal with the other. Nobody is winning and as such all the insurgency has to do is not lose.

But here is an example of the insurgency taking advantage of the progaganda war. We don't put out any statistics and this is what they throw back at us as a result...

New al-Qaida tape says 12,000 activated


By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD, Associated Press Writer 42 minutes ago

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida in
Iraq claimed in a new audio tape Friday to be winning the war faster than expected in Iraq, saying it had mobilized 12,000 fighters.
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The group also said it welcomed the Republican electoral defeat that led to the departure of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, and it added that its fighters would not rest until they had blown up the White House.

Abu Ayyub al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, also urged the U.S. to stay in Iraq so his group would have more opportunities to kill American troops.

"The al-Qaida army has 12,000 fighters in Iraq, and they have vowed to die for God's sake," a man introduced as al-Muhajir said in an audio tape made available on militant Web sites.

"We will not rest from our Jihad until we are under the olive trees of Rumieh and we have blown up the filthiest house — which is called the White House," al-Muhajir said.

Al-Muhajir became the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike in June.