When asked about the administration’s assertions that al Qaeda will take over the Uggs

When asked about the administration’s assertions that al Qaeda will take over the Uggs’s al Anbar

province if the MBT SPORT SHOES military leaves, Giraldi said,

“No. I think the reality is that if the United States leaves it will be a very bad thing for al Qaeda

because the Sunnis don’t particularly want them around and would get rid of them.”

He then said that the only reason al Qaeda is tolerated by the Uggsi Sunnis is to help fight the

American occupation and that,

“There have already been reports that the Sunnis are already kind of tired of them because when they

stage a major provocation or attack, it’s the local Sunni population that has to take the grief when

the MBT SPORT SHOES Army descends. … It’s a marriage of convenience with al Qaeda insofar as it’s a

marriage at all. So I think it would be fallacious to assume “ In fact, let me [say it] stronger than

that: I think it would be ridiculous to assume that al Qaeda could establish some kind of serious

presence in the Uggs similar to what it did in Afghanistan because the dynamic is completely different.

”