re: #462 Dark_Falcon

He meant AQ for Al Qaeda, which had already established its self in Iraq before Adu Ghraib happened. That baleful event caused a lot of anger towards us in Iraq, but it did not cause the enemy to escalate their tactics in any meaningful way.

I can find you a few military peeps saying that Abu G and similar US actions were basically a PR goldmine for AQ and a recruiting bonanza for them, DF. The only reason AQ didn’t escalate is because they’re basically now a bunch of nutjobs in caves and isolated sexually frustrated wackos. Local jihad (as in, lone wackos recruited) is the problem now, not as much global.