Al Quaeda's Strategy to the Year 2020

[Truth2Tell]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_qaeda#Strategy

Strategy

On March 11, 2005, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Quds_Al-Arabi">Al-Quds Al-Arabi published extracts from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saif_al-Adel">Saif al-Adel's document "Al Quaeda's Strategy to the Year 2020". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Bari_Atwan">Abdel Bari Atwan summarizes this strategy as comprising five stages:

1. Provoke the United States into invading a Muslim country.

2. Incite local resistance to occupying forces.

3. Expand the conflict to neighboring countries, and engage the U.S. in a long war of attrition.

4. Convert Al-Qaeda into an ideology and set of operating principles that can be loosely franchised in other countries without requiring direct command and control, and via these franchises incite attacks against countries allied with the U.S. until they withdraw from the conflict, as happened with the 2004 Madrid train bombings, but which did not have the same effect with the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

5. The U.S. economy will finally collapse under the strain of too many engagements in too many places, similarly to the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Arab regimes supported by the U.S. will collapse, and a Wahhabi Caliphate will be installed across the region.

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I think there hasn't been a major attack inside the U.S. by Al Quaeda since 9-11 because they haven't needed one. They probably figure things are going pretty much according to plan.

[sufrommich]

1. "a Wahhabi Caliphate will be installed across the region"

Please. And sharia law will invade the U.S. :tinfoilhat:

[KatyMan]

2. I think that was referring to the ME n/t

n/t

[Truth2Tell]

4. Doesn't mean they don't believe it. It tells us

what they are trying to do. I don't think they have any shot at achieving wild fantasies like a Caliphate. But we've played directly into the rest of their plan, to the point that we've engineered our own decline.

[Quezacoatl]

3. Simple strategy fro success

If Al-Qaeda really wanted to destroy America there is a simple way - incorporate.

Then they would have free reign to do whatever they wanted to the American economy.