"The fight against the enemy nearest to you has precedence over the fight against the enemy farther away. . . . In all Muslim countries the enemy has the reins of power. The enemy is the present rulers." --Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj, tried and hanged in connection with the 1981 assassination of Anwar al-Sadat1 "Victory for the Islamic movements . . . cannot be attained unless these movements possess an Islamic base in the heart of the Arab region." --Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden deputy, 20012 "We do not want stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and even Saudi Arabia. ....