Subj : Re: The War Has No Clothe
To   : Daemon
From : Frank Reid
Date : Wed Oct 12 2005 05:09 am

  Re: Re: The War Has No Clothe
  By: Daemon to Frank Reid on Mon Oct 10 2005 23:17:00

 >   Or terrorists, actually?

You've probably read about this now:

Senior U.S. intelligence officials call a letter from al Qaeda's No. 2 man to
its leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, "chilling" because of how "calm,
clear and well argued" it is in urging preparation for a U.S. departure from
Iraq. In the letter, Ayman al-Zawahiri is concerned that videotaped beheadings
of hostages could lose the "hearts and minds" of Muslims. A U.S. official
described the letter's language as that of "an al Qaeda elder to an
occasionally hotheaded field commander."
....
"Is the opening of another front now in addition to the front against the
Americans and the government a wise decision?" al-Zawahiri asks. "Or does this
conflict with Shia lift the burden from the Americans by diverting the
mujahedeen to the Shia, while the Americans continue to control matters from
afar?"
....
The letter outlines a four-stage plan to expand the war in Iraq: Expel U.S.
forces, establish an Islamic authority, take the fight to Iraq's secular
neighbors and battle with Israel -- "because Israel was established only to
challenge any new Islamic entity."

So, do you really think this Islamic extremism is some made-up bogeyman?

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