[Vision2020] Al Qaida

[Ted Moffett]

All:

Bill Maher hosted "Larry King Live" last night on CNN.  He commented that he
thought the killing of this supposed second in command for "Al-Qaeda," if
true, would have about as much effect on Al-Qaeda as the death of Ray Kroc
did on the McDonald's fast food empire.

In other words, not much!

I agree.

In fact, this alleged killing, if true, may have even less effect.  Al-Qaeda
can function as a very decentralized loose knit group of like minded
individuals, who deliberately avoid a hierarchical or centralized
structure.  Terror cells thus operate with no direct contact between them,
and deliberately so, to avoid exposing each other if caught and tortured to
reveal other terrorist operatives.  Al-Qaeda is thus more of a "big idea"
that motivates those of an extremist religious ideology, than an
organization.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/040808/2/q8lp.html

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0629-08.htm

As the CIA analyst who wrote the book "Imperial Hubris" (see info at links
above) asserted, the invasion of Iraq was a "Christmas gift to Bin Laden,"
insofar as this invasion has fueled hatred of the US among Islamic people
around the world, who see the US engaged in a war against Islam (whether
this is true or not), swelling the ranks of these independently functioning
terror cells, who will not be compromised by killing Osama Bin Laden, or his
so called second in command and personal physician, Ayman Al Zawahiri

Ted Moffett


On 1/14/06, g. crabtree <jampot at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> Hope he's having a very unpleasant chat with Allah right about now
> concerning the error of his ways and his immediate and long term future.
>
> gc
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Decker" <mattd2107 at hotmail.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 8:27 AM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Al Qaida
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> > Anybody see the news last night? Al Qaida 2nd man Al Zawahiri is thought
> > to have been killed in a house that was bombed. Any thoughts.
> >
> > Matt D
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