From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:45:01 -0500, Mark  wrote:

>  Also, now that Bin Laden is encouraging them, it indicates
> to me that they've "jumped the shark."

Kevin Drum quotes Juan Cole on that:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_12/005390.php
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Bin Laden's intervention in Iraq was hamfisted and clumsy, and will benefit
the United States and the Shiites enormously. Most Iraqi Muslims, Sunni or
Shiite, dislike the Wahhabi branch of Islam prevalent in Saudi Arabia, and
with which Bin Laden is associated. Nationalistic Iraqis will object to a
foreigner interfering in their national affairs...
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Steve 
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