Thursday, August 24, 2006

Reading...

an eye-opening interview with the former chief of the Bin Laden unit of the Counterterrorist Center (remember when we were still hunting Bin Laden?):
The war has validated everything bin Laden said: that the United States will destroy any strong government in the Arab world, that it will seek to destroy Israel's enemies, that it will occupy Muslim holy places, that it will seize Arab oil, and that it will replace God's law with man's law.

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If we pull out of Iraq, we have a problem in that we may have to leave a large contingent of troops in Jordan. All of this is a tremendous advantage for Al Qaeda. We've moved the center of jihad a thousand miles west from Afghanistan to the Middle East.

1 comment:

Julie Pippert said...

What I still don't know is the ultimate goal and plan. I mean...all this...to what end?

I also commented below...good post!