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To: NightOwl who wrote (127379)3/26/2004 7:28:21 AM
From: Noel de Leon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"As best I can tell their strategic assumptions haven't changed since the Mohammed's day."

There is an interview(Danish newspaper) with a Moroccan terror researcher, Mohammed Darif(MD), who believes that Al-Qaeda's strategic goals are the establishment of Islamic states in the Arab world. Since this can only be done by splitting the USA away from, for example SA, hence the attack on WTC. In that sense bin-Laden has succeeded in his partial goal. Few in the USA trust the Saudi regime today.

MD also believes that it is a banal and incorrect conception to claim that OBL wants to "Islamitise" the whole world.

OBL's ideology, Salafistic Islam, is based on 2 concepts:
1) get people to believe that there is a religious duty to fight the enemy.
2) the enemy is the enemy close by.
In other words the Arab regimes not Christianity or Judaism.

MD also believes that Madrid is a new stage in al-Qaeda's plan. Not only did it occur in Madrid(and not England or the US) because of Spain's close connection to the US and Britain but also because Spain had uncovered an al-Qaeda network and charged them in the Spanish courts.

Finally MD points out that there are very few of the 300 million Arabs in the world who support terror. The west can help to strengthen democracy in the Arab world as a way of reducing terror by insuring that all factions be represented in the budding democracies, not just those which are friendly towards the West. He uses Japan's democracy as an example.
Unfortunately, the article is in Danish so there is no point in reproducing it here.

It can be found at www.politiken.dk
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