Al-Dari is to Al Qaeda what Gerry Adams is to Sein Fein, the public "acceptable" face of a largely beaten and discredited movement that is capable of little more than *occasional* mild violence against soft targets.
The NYT also just reported the following: Sheik Harith al-Dari said he would continue to view the armed resistance in Iraq as legitimate until the U.S. military offered a timetable for its withdrawal. Al-Dari wants to remake Iraq into the political structure of Saudi Arabia but now finds himself as a big fish in an increasingly smaller and more discredited pond.
Al-Dari is to Al Qaeda what Gerry Adams is to Sein Fein, the public "acceptable" face of a largely beaten and discredited movement that is capable of little more than *occasional* mild violence against soft targets.