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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (640)	9/10/2006 9:31:28 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

It may well take 20 years. But al-Qaeda's days are numbered Five years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden waits in vain for a Muslim 'awakening'. The lure of the West is just too powerful a force Jason Burke Sunday September 10, 2006 The Observer (UK) Tomorrow will mark five years since the attacks of 11 September 2001. If one generation knew where they were when mankind first walked on the moon, another knows where they were when the Twin Towers crumbled. And they know where they were when coalition troops first entered Iraq. And when the bombs exploded in London a year ago. By the end of this decade, there is no doubt we will have other sad anniversaries of other terrible events to be mindful of. There is a sense that history, far from ending, is accelerating. That the centre cannot hold. That the individual counts for nothing. Certainly, Osama bin Laden, egoist though he may be, is convinced that his 'life or death does not matter'. This is because, as he said a few months after the 11 September attacks: 'The awakening has started.' An al-Qaeda video said much the same thing in his umpteenth similar statement last week. Times have changed but the song remains the same. Bin Laden was in one sense right. His life or death doesn't matter, but not for the reasons he thought. He meant that the attacks of 9/11, the culmination of a series of attempts which began in the late 1990s to use spectacular violence to spark a general uprising of the world's Muslims, had been largely successful. And, he felt in December 2001, his work was more or less over. Five years later, it is clear that, in this, he was wrong. Yes, there is increasing radicalisation. (Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk .... observer.guardian.co.uk