Al-Qaeda's Completed Warning Cycle - Ready to Attack?

The Jamestown Foundation ^ | March 3, 2005 | by Michael Scheuer

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LOL! Good Gawd!

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We have a very strict moral code in the South:

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It could be also be in the hands of

15 May Organization 3rd October Organization 17 November Revolutionary Organization Abu Nidal organization (ANO) Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) Action Directe Aceh Merdeka Ahl-e-Hadees Aid for Northern Ireland Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Al-`Asifa Al-Badhr Mujahidin Al Faran Al-Fatah al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya Al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI) al-Jihad al-Qa'ida (The Base) Albanian National Army (ANA) Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB) Algeti Wolves Ali Suleiyman Alliance of Eritrean National Force Alliance pour la resistance democratique (ARD) Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) AMAL Amn Araissi Ansar al-Islam Anti-Imperialist International Brigade (AIIB) Anti-Imperialist Territorial Nuclei (NTA) Arab Revolutionary Brigades Arab Revolutionary Council Arewa People's Congress [Nigeria] Armed Forces of Puerto Rican National Liberation (FALN) Armed Islamic Group (GIA) Armed Islamic Movement [AIM] Armed Nuclei for Proletarian Autonomy Armed Proletarian Nuclei Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (ARN) Armée pour la libération du Rwanda (ALIR) Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) 'Asbat al-Ansar Aum Shinrikyo Aum Supreme Truth Azad Khalistan Babbar Khalsa Babbar Khalsa Force Baader Meinhof Gang Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) Bavarian Liberation Army Bhinderanwala Tiger Force Black Mamba Black September Breton Liberation Front Breton Revolutionary Army Brigades of the Martyr Abdallah Al Hudhaifi Brigate Rosse Cambodian Freedom Fighters Caprivi Liberation Front Catholic Reaction Force (CRF) Cellules Communistes Combattantes Chukaku-Ha CNRM National Council of Maubere Resistance CNRT Timorese National Resistance Council Commandos of the November 95 Anarchist Group Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights Committee for Eastern Turkistan Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Conseil national pour la défense de la democratie (CNDD) Dal Khalsa Dark Harvest Dayak Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) Democratic Karen Burmese Army (DKBA) Devrimci Sol (Revolutionary Left) Dev Sol Direct Action Against Drugs (DADD) Djibouti Youth Movement Dukhtaran E Millat Eastern Shan State Army (ESSA) Ejercito Popular Boricua (Macheteros) Ejercito Popular Revolucionario (EPR) ELA - Revolutionary People's Struggle Ellalan Force ELN - National Liberation Army -- Colombia EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston) ERP [Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo] Eritrean Democratic Liberation Movement Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement Eritrean Liberation Front-Revolutionary Council (ELF-RC) Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) - Basque Fatherland and Liberty Executive Outcomes FALINTIL National Armed Forces for the Liberation of East Timor Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) FARC - Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Fatah Revolutionary Council Fatah Special Operations Group Federation of Associations of Canadian Tamils (FACT) Fighting Islamic Group (FIG) Force 17 Forces armees du peuple (FAP) ex-FAR (Forces armees rwandaises) Forces nationales de liberation (FNL) Forces de liberation nationale (FALINA) Forces pour la défense de la democratie (FDD) Fraxia Midheniston Free Aceh Free Aceh Movement Free Papua Movement FPM - Morazanist Patriotic Front FPMR - Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front FRETILIN Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor Front contre l’occupation tutsie (FLOT) Front De La Liberation Nationale Front Line Front pour la liberation nationale (FROLINA) Fuerzas Armadas Liberacion Nacional Puertoriquena (FALN) al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya Gerakin Aceh Merdeka (GAM) God's Army GRAPO - 1 October Antifascist Resistance Group Gray Wolves [Sivi Vukovi] Grey Wolves Great East Islamic Raiders–Front (IBDA-C) HAMAS Harakat ul-Ansar (HUA) Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami (HUJI) Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B) Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM) Hawari Group Hawari Special Operations Group Hizballah Al Khalji Hizballah [Bahrain] Hizballa [Kuwait] Hizballah [Lebanon] Hizbullah [Turkish] Hizb-i-Islami Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) Hizb-i Wahdat Hizb ul-Mujahidin (HM) Ikhwan-ul-Mussalmin Interahamwe International Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders International Justice Group International Revolutionary Action Group International Sikh Youth Federation Iparretarrak (IK) Iranian National Front Iraqi National Accord (INA) Iraqi National Congress Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) Irish Republican Army (IRA) Irish Republican Army (IRA) - Continuity Irish Republican Army (IRA) - New Irish Republican Army (IRA) - Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) - Real Isatabu Freedom Movement Islamic Army of Aden Islamic Group (IG) Islamic Great Eastern Raiders Front Jamat-E- Islami Islamic Armed Group (GIA) Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade Islamic Jihad [Egypt] Islamic Jihad [Lebanon] Islamic Jihad [Turkey] Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine Islamic Liberation Army (AIS) Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) Islamic Movement Organization Islamic Movement for Change Islamic Reform Movement Islamic Resistance Movement Islamic Salvation Army Islamic Salvation Front / Movement (FIS) Islamic Salvation Movement Islamic Union (Al-Ittihad al-Islami) Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya Jemaah Islamiya (JI) Jamat-e-Islami Jamaat ul-Fuqra Jamiat-e-Ahl-e-Hadees Jamiat ul-Mujahidin Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Japanese Red Army (JRA) Jihad Group Kach Kachin Defense Army (KDA) Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) Kahane Chai Karen National Defense Organization (KNDO) Karen National Union (KNU) Khalistan Liberation Tiger Force Khalistan Commando Force Khalistan Liberation Front Khalistan National Army Khmer Rouge Komala Kosovo Liberation Army [KLA] Ku Klux Klan Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia (KMM) Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) La Cosa Nostra Lashkar I Jhangvi Lashkar-e-Taiba Lautaro Youth Movement (MJL) Lautaro faction of the United Popular Action Movement (MAPU/L) Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces (FRPL) Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction Les mongoles Liberation Army of the Islamic Sanctuaries Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) Macheteros Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK - Services Office Malaita Eagles Force Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) Martyrs of Tal Al Za'atar Mau Mau Mayi-Mayi Meccan Group Middle-Core Faction Minnesota Patriots Council Mong Tai Army (MTA) Mohajir Qaumi Movement [MQM] Morazanist Patriotic Front (FPM) Moro Islamic Liberation Front [MILF] Moro National Liberation Front [MNLF] Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM) Mothaidda Quami Movement (MQM) Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) Mouvement de liberation congolais (MLC) Movement for an Islamic State Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance (MFDC) Movimento Sociale Italiano Movimiento De Liberacion Nacional MRTA - Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO) Muslim Brotherhood Muslim Iranian Student's Society Muslims Against Global Oppresion Muttahida Jihad Council [MJC] Muttahidda Quami Movement (MQM) Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU) National Committee for the Liberation and Defense of Albanian Lands (KKCMTSH) National Council for Resistance (NCR) National Front for the Liberation of Corsica National Liberation Army (ELN) -- Bolivia National Liberation Army (ELN) -- Colombia National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA) National Liberation Front Of Kurdistan (ERNK) National Patriotic Front of Liberia National United Front of Arakan (NUFA) New Jihad Group New Mon State Party (NMSP) New People's Army (NPA) New Red Brigades/Communist Combatant Party Northern Alliance Nucleus Faction Orange Volunteers Ordine Nuovo (New Order) Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM) Organisation of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority) OIPFM Organization of the Oppressed on Earth Orly Group Osama bin Laden Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Parti pour la liberation du peuple hutu (PALIPEHUTU) Partido Democratico Popular Revolucionario (PDPR) Party of Allah Party of Democratic Kampuchea Party of God Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) People's Liberation Army (PLA) Ireland People's Liberation Army Of Kurdistan (ARGK) People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) People's Republican Army (PRA) Peoples' War Group (PWG) [India] Peoples' War Group (PWG) [Nepal] Peuple en armes pour la liberation du Rwanda (PALIR) Pirates PKK - Kurdistan Workers' Party Popular Boricua Army (Macheteros) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Special Command (PFLP-SC) Popular Liberation Forces Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) Popular Revolutionary Vanguard Popular Struggle Front (PSF) Prima Lina Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) Provos Puka Inti Rajneeshee Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) Real IRA Red Army Faction (RAF) Red Brigades Red Hand Defenders RENAMO - Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana Recontra 380 Recontras Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Revolutionary Cells Revolutionary Council of Nigeria (RCN) Revolutionary Justice Organization Revolutionary Left Revolutionary Nuclei Revolutionary Organization 17 November Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims Revolutionary Organization of the Toilers of Kurdistan Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) Revolutionary People's Struggle (ELA) Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative Nuclei (NIPR) Revolutionary Struggle Revolutionary United Front (RUF) Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs Russian Organized Crime (ROC) Rwandan Liberation Army Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) Saheed Khalsa Force Sendero Luminoso (SL) Serb Volunteer Guard [SDG / SSJ] "Tigers" Serbian Radical Party [SRS] Shan Democratic Union Shining Path Shora-e-Jehad Sipah I Sahaba Pakistan SLA - South Lebanese Army Special Purpose Islamic Regiment Students of the Engineer Students of Yahya Ayyash Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SAIRI) Talaa' al-Fateh Taleban Terra Lliure (TL) (Free Land) Territorial Anti Imperialist Nucleus The Brotherhood The Order The Tunisian Combatant Group (TCG) Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army Turkish Hizballah Turkish Islamic Jihad Turkish Peoples Liberation Army Uganda National Rescue Front Uganda National Rescue Front II Uganda Salvation Front/Army Uighur militants Ulster Defence Association (UDA) UDT Uniao Democratica Timorense Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) Union des forces vives pour la liberation et la democratie en RDC-Zaire (UFLD) Union pour la liberation nationale (ULINA) UNITA Union Nacional Por La Independencee Totale Do Angola United Company of Jihad United Jihad Council United Liberation Front of Assam United Self-Defense Forces/Group of Colombia (AUC) United Wa State Army (UWSA) Vanguards of Conquest Vasat Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors Weathermen Weather Underground Organization West Nile Bank Front [WNBF] White Eagles World Tamil Association (WTA) World Tamil Movement (WTM) Zapatista National Liberation Army Zimbabwe African National Union Sources and Resources.

But I guess that's just another minor difference in the big scheme of things.