Iraq: U.S. Analysts Say 'Surge' Progress Warrants Patience

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Originally Posted by queequeger

And one more thing, I swear to god, please, please, please stop assigning value to AQI. They are a near insignificant group when looking at the whole insurgency. They make up about 10% of the problem and we devote well over half of our resources on them.

Where did you get that number from?

I know it has gone down since this was written (3/2/07) because IAI, 1920 and others have left Al Qaeda but I have heard up to 50% of insurgencies are aliened with Al Qaeda now.

The hardcore true believers of al-Qaida at one time were probably 10 percent of the insurgent groups. Now they're 50 percent.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20...02/insurgency/