You're right. I was only thinking of the March 14 vs March 8 political confrontation.
As far as Fatah al-Islam is concerned, it's instructive sometimes to listen to bin Laden's own words:
All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note ...
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