Al-Qaeda's 7 point plan .

[Guest mursa]

..interesting read , may seem a lil "x-filish" but it is a plausable and somewhat believable article .

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,369448,00.html

[Guest mursa]

Please go to the site and read the article.......this info is based upon several interviews with Al-Qaida members and is co-written by Fouad Hussein - the man who spent time in prison with Al-Zarqawi. The info below is Al-Qaida's seven point plan.

What al-Qaida Really Wants

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/int...,369448,00.html

# The First Phase Known as "the awakening" -- this has already been carried out and was supposed to have lasted from 2000 to 2003, or more precisely from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington to the fall of Baghdad in 2003. The aim of the attacks of 9/11 was to provoke the US into declaring war on the Islamic world and thereby "awakening" Muslims. "The first phase was judged by the strategists and masterminds behind al-Qaida as very successful," writes Hussein. "The battle field was opened up and the Americans and their allies became a closer and easier target." The terrorist network is also reported as being satisfied that its message can now be heard "everywhere."

# The Second Phase "Opening Eyes" is, according to Hussein's definition, the period we are now in and should last until 2006. Hussein says the terrorists hope to make the western conspiracy aware of the "Islamic community." Hussein believes this is a phase in which al-Qaida wants an organization to develop into a movement. The network is banking on recruiting young men during this period. Iraq should become the center for all global operations, with an "army" set up there and bases established in other Arabic states.

# The Third Phase This is described as "Arising and Standing Up" and should last from 2007 to 2010. "There will be a focus on Syria," prophesies Hussein, based on what his sources told him. The fighting cadres are supposedly already prepared and some are in Iraq. Attacks on Turkey and -- even more explosive -- in Israel are predicted. Al-Qaida's masterminds hope that attacks on Israel will help the terrorist group become a recognized organization. The author also believes that countries neighboring Iraq, such as Jordan, are also in danger.

# The Fourth Phase Between 2010 and 2013, Hussein writes that al-Qaida will aim to bring about the collapse of the hated Arabic governments. The estimate is that "the creeping loss of the regimes' power will lead to a steady growth in strength within al-Qaida." At the same time attacks will be carried out against oil suppliers and the US economy will be targeted using cyber terrorism.

# The Fifth Phase This will be the point at which an Islamic state, or caliphate, can be declared. The plan is that by this time, between 2013 and 2016, Western influence in the Islamic world will be so reduced and Israel weakened so much, that resistance will not be feared. Al-Qaida hopes that by then the Islamic state will be able to bring about a new world order.

# The Sixth Phase Hussein believes that from 2016 onwards there will a period of "total confrontation." As soon as the caliphate has been declared the "Islamic army" it will instigate the "fight between the believers and the non-believers" which has so often been predicted by Osama bin Laden.

# The Seventh Phase This final stage is described as "definitive victory." Hussein writes that in the terrorists' eyes, because the rest of the world will be so beaten down by the "one-and-a-half million Muslims," the caliphate will undoubtedly succeed. This phase should be completed by 2020, although the war shouldn't last longer than two years.

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Fixed the link for u

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,369448,00.html

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Lesson learned is..

Don't ever underestimate your enemy, expect them to be 10 times their perceived strength.

[Guest saintjohn]

Thanks for the linkage, Mursa. I thought this passage was particularly interesting:

Nevertheless, there is no way the scenario he depicts can be seen as a plan which al-Qaida can follow step by step. The terrorist network just doesn't work like that anymore. The significance of the central leadership has diminished and its direct commands have lost a great deal of importance. The supposed master plan for the years 2000 to 2020 reads in parts more like a group of ideas cobbled together in retrospect, than something planned and presented in advance. And not to mention the terrorist agenda is simply unworkable: the idea that al-Qaida could set up a caliphate in the entire Islamic world is absurd. The 20-year plan is based mainly on religious ideas. It hardly has anything to do with reality -- especially phases four to seven.

According to informed sources, AQ no longer has a centralized command, control, and communication (C3) structure. The latest thinking in the intelligence community is that we're now fighting AQ ver 3.0. OBL and his chiefs were the first generation, the leaders of the late 90s were the second generation, and the self-sufficient cells (like those responsible for the London bombings) are the third generation.

While the seven-phase plan outlined in the article may be more rhetoric than blueprint, it does provide an insight into what the terrorists want (what they really, really want). Notice, there is no step that says "Drive the infidels from Iraq, install a religious regime, and then stop killing innocent Americans and Britons." This isn't about troops in Mecca, prisoners in Gitmo, Israeli settlements, or any other grievance. Those issues may help fuel the movement, but they're not its raison d'ete. The spiritual leaders of AQ will not be satisfied with anything less than the total destruction of Israel, America, and so-called Western Civilization.

Appeasement is not an option.