When pressed on the question of whether bin Laden would want to send al Qaeda guys to “follow us home

When pressed on the question of whether bin Laden would want to send al Qaeda guys to “follow us home

” from the Middle East should we withdraw, if only to try to keep us there for al Qaeda’s benefit

(such as providing them with increased numbers of recruits and targets for them to train on), Giraldi

replied,

“I don’t see that. I think he has a constituency and he has an agenda and he’s very focused on both.

His agenda is not to pursue the United States to the United States after we leave the Middle East. …

If we were to basically get out of the Uggs and get out of the region “ in the intrusive way that we’

re there right now “ that would take a lot of the fuel out of Osama bin Laden’s fire. I don’t see

that there’s any agenda to follow us to the United States to destroy our way of life or whatever the

explanation would be.”

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