Posted on 08/23/2005 12:13:37 PM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
THE al-Qaeda master plan to take over the world and turn it into an Islamic state has been revealed for the first time.
For a new book, Jordanian journalist Fouad Hussein interviewed top lieutenants of the terrorist network, including the mastermind of many atrocities in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Al-Zarqawi al-Qaeda's Second Generation is published only in Arabic, but could be translated into English.
Hussein says al-Qaeda views its struggle as a long-term war with seven distinct phases.
Phase one is the "awakening" in the consciousness of Muslims worldwide following the September 11, 2001, suicide attacks. The aim of the attacks was to provoke the US into declaring war on the Islamic world and thereby mobilising the radicals.
Phase two is "Opening Eyes", the period we are now in and which should last until 2006. Hussein says the terrorists hope to make the "Western conspiracy" aware of the "Islamic community" as al-Qaeda continues to mould its secret battalions ready for battle.
Phase three, "Arising and Standing Up", should last from 2007 to 2010, with increasingly frequent attacks against secular Turkey and arch-enemy Israel.
Phase four, between 2010 and 2013, will see the downfall of hated Arab regimes, including Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Oil suppliers will be attacked and the US economy will be targeted using cyber terrorism.
Phase five will be the point at which an Islamic state, or caliphate, can be declared between 2013 and 2016.
Phase six, from 2016 on, will be a period of "total confrontation". As soon as the caliphate has been declared, the "Islamic army" will instigate the "fight between the believers and the non-believers" that has so often been predicted by al-Qaeda's leader, Osama bin Laden.
Phase seven, the 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 billion Muslims", the caliphate will undoubtedly succeed. This phase should be completed by 2020, although the war should not last longer than two years.
I hadn't looked at it that way, but you are exactly right. These pukes can't even agree with each other. They will kill each other off before the reach stage 3.
Damn, you beat me.
I vote for the baboon, it looks more civilized.
Well said
I saw part of the 9-11 program on National Geographic last night and Osama wanted to provoke US to attack Afghanistan
Yeah, that was a good plan/sarc off
Phase 8 - Mecca and Medina uninhabitable for 10,000 years due to extremely high levels of radioactivity.
if there are 1.5 BILLION Of them in active combat, as explained in phase 5 or 6.. no issue "finding" them...
"We will dominate the world and push the Jews and Crusaders off the edge!"
1.5 billion Muslims, perhaps (by their count). Not all equally dedicated to the proposition that they should stay in the fight to the death.
If the choice is to be dead, or perhaps converted to Zoroastrianism, or Buddhism, or Kung Fu, or Christianity, or Judaism, despite much of their early training, a sizable majority would opt for conversion.
A small minority, of course, would rather fight than switch. Regardless of the outcome and their personal fate.
I wish they release Pinky and the Brain on DVD I wouldn't mind getting that cartoon LOL!
They forgot phase 8: West totally incinerates Muslim "caliphate" with WMD then moves in to claim its resources.
Probably executed between phase 4 and 5 of the Al Qaida plan.
Bin Laden had been warning for years that he wanted to strike America, and many treated his diatribes as just more Islamo-lunatic blather from another crazy towel head.
Some crazy towel head he turned out to be. Now, the terrorists are getting pushed back by America's actions now, and they increasingly appear in dissaray, but what happens when (if) they get a nuke or other WMD? Personally, I think they eventually will, and we'll have little if any time to stop the catastrophe.
When a man stands across the street screaming that he's going to burn down your house, do you just ignore him as nuts and go back inside? Do you call the cops then or wait until he's screaming on your front lawn. What about when he's standing on your porch with a can of gasoline? After the flames start? At that point calling him on when he was still across the street doesn't seem like so much of an overreaction, does it?
And as we speak, our liberal friends are doing all they can to help meet the timetable!
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