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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:38 AM
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Al Qaeda Strategic Vision: Engage the U.S. Overseas, Not at Home

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/06/al_qaeda_strate.html

Al Qaeda Strategic Vision: Engage the U.S. Overseas, Not at Home


Al Qaeda's strategic vision involves challenging the United States and its allies overseas using small- to medium-scale attacks, according to an online book available on extremist websites that has become the seminal jihadi textbook. The first English translation of the text is being circulated this week among DOD and government policy circles.

The translation is being released by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. As ABC News reported last month, the Center has been translating thousands of declassified insurgent and extremist documents that were seized in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Abu Bakr Naji, an al Qaeda insider and author of the book, "The Management of Savagery," believes that the 9/11 attacks accomplished what they needed to by forcing the U.S. to commit their military overseas. He says 9/11 forced the U.S. to fall into the "trap" of overextending their military and that "it began to become clear to the American administration that it was being drained."

He says that al Qaeda shouldn't be focused on any more of those kinds of attacks for now.

"The focus is on mid- to small-range targets in the region and not go after big symbolic targets like the Twin Towers," says Will McCants, a fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, who translated the 268-page document.



We are fighting them "over there", because that's what they want...
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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:41 AM
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1. Well, there's no reason to stage an attack here in this country.
Our own government has aided and abetted terrorists - done their work for them here by keeping us scared enough to take away our freedoms. When we lose the essential liberties provided us in the Constitution, the terrorists win.

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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 10:48 AM
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14. Osama came out and told us that was what he wanted.
It was in one of his early tapes. Osama has led bush around by the nose.
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:44 AM
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2. Worked perfectly well against their first victims: the now...
defunct USSR.

Their second victims R on the right path for their second victory. I'd even bet they have a third victim listed next, and even a fourth and a fifth one...

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IA_Seth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:51 AM
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3. Anyone have a link to the text of this book? n/t
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:03 PM
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4. News flash: they are winning.
Actually this has been pointed out many times over the last few years by quite a few knowledgable folks. Our Resident Idiots have been played, and all too willingly.
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 01:55 PM
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5. And if it wasn't what they wanted--and
statements from the late '90s seem to say it wasn't what they expected--would they actually admit it?

If so, then the statement's meaningful as far as it relates to former strategy. If they wouldn't admit it, and would make up some other rational to cover their tails, however, then the statement's irrelevant to what their strategy was.

Psy-ops. Not just for professionals.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:57 PM
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6. Well, then, time to shut down the NSA spy program, then
If they have no interest in domestic US terrorism any more, then why all the fuss?
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 12:40 AM
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7. Ah-um. In reality the NSA spy program isn't to catch terrarissts
(the 'real' ones') LD phone calls (them fools: one would think they'd have no clue about being taped! Duh!).

No, the illegal NSA spy program is to listen to the liberals' calls (all-calls), the many local Peace groups' and the Democratic candidates' conversations.

Of course, this worst-than-Nixon mal-administration would never reveal their true objectives for using it this way without warrants: what truth have they ever told?
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 02:14 AM
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8. Fight Them Over There, Then We CAN'T Fight Them Here
That's what I've been saying since day one: it's bleeding the beast, and they suckered GWB right into it, knowing that his own greed dog motives would play into it.

GWB is Osama's task monkey -- and a big enough idiot to "stay the course" Thelma and Louise style, no matter how obviously the results prove the tactics wrong.
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 02:48 AM
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9. Now the GOP will say that Al Qaeda is saying this...
to make the US do the opposite and bring the troops home. No matter what get said or who says it, the republicans will spin it to their own advantage.
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BrokenBeyondRepair Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 02:49 AM
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10. who are we fighting again?
al qaeda wants our freedumbs.. yeah right
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 02:58 AM
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11. so bush did exactly what the terrorists wanted.
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 03:33 AM
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12. They hate us for our freedumbs!
'They' can't hate us anymore because we have no freedumbs left!
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4_TN_TITANS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 10:44 AM
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13. Could it be the point of bringing this up
is to give the MisAdministration an out for beginning withdrawal before they're forced to? :think:
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 10:51 AM
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15. OK folks it is time to be the media. Spread this far and wide. Also
Now it is clear why we haven't been hit since 9-11. As long as bush continues destroying America, al Qaeda needs to do nothing.
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rustydog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 10:58 AM
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16. They want to fight us over there too?
I'm confused.

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