If it looks like an Aiel, lopes like an Aiel and wears a veil like an Aiel, in my book, it's an Aiel.
I chose that quotation because it's pithy.Aiel have light eyes and light hair, almost universally. We have never seen an Aiel with dark eyes before. So faced with five data points (black and brown clothing, red veils, spears on their back, dark eyes which are glassy and hard, pointy teeth) one of which is disqualifying and only one of which is common to Aiel (spears), I say they're plainly not Aiel and another explanation is needed.
"Loping" crouched-over while reading tracks is an Aiel attribute? A unique one? Sorry, I don't think that's grounded in fact. Many societies veil, including the Taraboners and the Sharans, and Aiel veils are black, not red. Cadin'sor are tan, not black. What in the description of these "Aiel" (provided by someone who thought they were Myrddraal seconds earlier and "not Aiel" seconds later) is recognizably unique to the Aiel? Nothing.
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The Turned Ashaman and Aiel - not 13x13
- 30/11/2010 10:20:07 PM
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Tarna's the only one we have a handle on
- 01/12/2010 01:39:28 AM
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The Aiel at the end are Aiel because they have veils (which they didn't replace before killing).
- 01/12/2010 02:01:17 PM
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Liah didn't veil in Aridhol when she killed some Trollocs.
- 01/12/2010 03:41:56 PM
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True, at that point she was essentially a feral animal.
- 02/12/2010 01:18:14 AM
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Re: True, at that point she was essentially a feral animal.
- 02/12/2010 11:08:16 AM
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There's actually a pretty good chance they aren't channelers, I think.
- 02/12/2010 02:45:41 PM
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Whoever she had been, she was surely no Aiel, not with that pale skin and /those dark eyes./
- 02/12/2010 12:34:46 AM
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"An Aes Sedai, perhaps. "
- 02/12/2010 01:59:32 AM
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The point is it doesn't look like an Aiel
- 02/12/2010 04:22:14 AM
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Perhaps the black eyes are due to something akin to the saa? *NM*
- 02/12/2010 11:12:03 AM
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Makes sense if they're Dreadlords, though, in a way, that would be disappointing.
- 06/12/2010 02:39:54 AM
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FIFTY quatloos on the oldcomers! 
- 02/12/2010 02:37:19 PM
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- 02/12/2010 02:37:19 PM
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They did "ethnically cleanse"
- 03/12/2010 07:50:24 AM
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There's no evidence to that effect; on what do you base that statement?
- 06/12/2010 02:14:09 AM
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I suppose that means the guys who stabbed Demira in Caemlyn were Aiel too
- 05/12/2010 04:56:59 PM
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If these guys were trying to make it look like a failed AIel killing, they suck at it.
- 05/12/2010 06:10:32 PM
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Re: If these guys were trying to make it look like a failed AIel killing, they suck at it.
- 05/12/2010 11:26:52 PM
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Glad we're on the same page now.
- 06/12/2010 02:24:38 AM
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I'm not holding my breath that they are Aiel
- 06/12/2010 08:42:11 PM
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Seriously framed comments usually prompt responses in kind.
- 06/12/2010 10:12:08 PM
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Just pointing out that it's been a sure sign of shenanigans when RJ pointed to something as obvious
- 07/12/2010 03:52:46 AM
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I thought this was what it meant. Posted about it in another thread somewhere.
- 01/12/2010 03:12:19 PM
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