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You may well be right, although in that region Saddam was probabaly the least hospitable to any organisation with an allegiance not directly connected to him (largely due to his somewhat paranoid personality one suspects).
What always beggers belief, at least as far as I am concerned, is their very ability to recruit. On paper one would not give credence to 5 people joining*, but, it is said, OBL trained over 50,000 in his camps. The Shi'ite cleric Sadr likewise attracts recruits in the thousands. I fear this could drag on for years.
* Then again I could never see the attraction of having a glass of beer with the Rev. Jones yet he attracted a disturbingly large number of people to his farewell party.
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