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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: average joe who wrote (93250)1/11/2005 1:18:08 PM
From: one_less   of 108807
 
I Introduction
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Al-Qaeda, international terrorist network, founded by Osama bin Laden. Al-Qaeda seeks to purge Muslim countries of Western—and especially United States—influence and install fundamentalist Islamic rule. Al-Qaeda, also spelled al-Qaida, is the Arabic word for “the base” or “the camp”—meaning the base or camp from which worldwide Islamic revolution will be fought.

II Al-Qaeda’s Mission

Al-Qaeda seeks to incite a global jihad (holy war) to overthrow regimes with predominantly Arab or Muslim populations that al-Qaeda considers corrupt and anti-Islamic. It wants to replace these regimes with a single Muslim nation or empire strictly governed according to sharia (Islamic law). Al-Qaeda sees the United States and other Western countries as blocking this goal because they are allied with many of the countries al-Qaeda considers corrupt.

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The same is true of Al-Sadr's Shi'ite group the Al Mahdi Army btw... on top of that, the two oppose each other.
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