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Thursday, October 13, 2005
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This is required reading for two reasons. First reason is the look inside al Qaeda's war plan, which includes making Iraq their home base country (after the Americans leave) to export their jihad, killing their way all over the middle east, especially Egypt. This letter from Zawahiri seems to confirm what President Bush said in his address on the war on terror last week, that the center of the war on terror right now is Iraq. The second reason you should read it is because you won't see it in any detail in the biased media. They don't want that to get out. Doesn't fit the template. If anything, Zawahiri seems propped up by all the 'get out of Iraq' and 'illegal war' talk by the Democrats. Look how confident he is that we will leave prematurely.
(A) The matter of preparing for the aftermath of the exit of the Americans: The Americans will exit soon, God willing, and the establishment of a governing authority-as soon as the country is freed from the Americans-does not depend on force alone. . . . Things may develop faster than we imagine. The aftermath of the collapse of American power in Vietnam-and how they ran and left their agents-is noteworthy. Because of that, we must be ready starting now, before events overtake us, and before we are surprised by the conspiracies of the Americans and the United Nations and their plans to fill the void behind them. We must take the initiative and impose a fait accompli upon our enemies, instead of the enemy imposing one on us, wherein our lot would be to merely resist their schemes.
And lastly, it shows Zawahiri's concern over Zarqowi's chances of success in Iraq. Abu Musab al Zarqawi is al Qaeda's commander in Iraq. A country where we wouldn't be if Al Gore had his way. Nothing like aiding and abetting the enemy from a foreign country. A chic thing to do if you're a flaming liberal. He continues . . .
This is the most vital part. This authority, or the Sharia amirate that is necessary, requires fieldwork starting now, alongside the combat and war. It would be a political endeavor in which the mujahedeen would be a nucleus around which would gather the tribes and their elders, and the people in positions, and scientists, and merchants, and people of opinion, and all the distinguished ones who were not sullied by appeasing the occupation and those who defended Islam.
We don't want to repeat the mistake of the Taliban, who restricted participation in governance to the students and the people of Qandahar alone. They did not have any representation for the Afghan people in their ruling regime, so the result was that the Afghan people disengaged themselves from them.
Check out the article in today's Opinion Journal, Zawahiri's Lament 'What our enemy thinks about Iraq.' The full text of the letter is on the Web site of the Director of National Intelligence at www.dni.gov
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