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[rborum]

IntelTrooper - I love that you have a quote from wilf in your signature line. Great stuff.

What I gather from the comments so far is that (1) there is no systematic (at least open source) data available on the extent to which US presence trumps religious ideology as an insurgent motivator in AFG; (2) it would be near impossible to disaggregate those sentiments from other insurgent motivations anyway.

[j37]

There is some polling data that has been conducted by the BBC. I found it in an article on foreignpolicy.com The article ( http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article...ight?page=full ) ran a few days ago. If you'd like to skip the commentary, here is a link to the bbc polling data http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/h..._poll_2009.pdf

I hope this information sheds some light on the subject.

[rborum]

I hope this information sheds some light on the subject.

Very helpful. Thanks j37.

[bellz]

I wouldn't put any money on the accuracy of any poll coming out of Afghanistan on public attitudes, its just simply impossible to get a decent sample