[QUOTE=Dudesky;3284200]According to PBS Frontline, they have been opening up friendly neighborhood offices back and forth between Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Sudan......most likely due to extreme heat in those areas at times.

If you study what Mao did in China you will see they are following in his footsteps. Mao saw a people that were suffering under the combination of warlords and whatever was passing for a government in China and jumped into the middle of it. If he was going to take over he had to have the people behind him first and he was not that concerned about their support. He just didn't want them to oppose him.

China did not have any history of regular elections, so when Mao took over he was just another warlord in the east trying to run a bunch of small fiefdoms, or so everyone in the fiefdoms thought.

Some in Al-Queta knows it has to do the same. It is easier to get the population to follow you if they love you than if they see you as someone who is constantly making their lives worse. Those that decide to roll in and take over through force have found the population, no matter where they have tried this, to be quite resistant to the savage behavior a lot of those in Al-Queta seem to think is the pathway to a better life.