The "Caliphate" | |
ANON (OP) 12/08/2005 10:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am suspicious of any writers who use the term caliphate or write about it to any extent. I think it is a term used by Israeli extremists to frighten Westerners. I am also suspicious of anyone and that includes whatever ideology who uses the term al qaeda since it is a term that is not normally used in Arabic. It simply means "the base." |
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kennnthomas (OP) 12/08/2005 10:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "...Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is blamed for some of the worst terrorist attacks and hostage killings in Iraq. He trusts the journalist Fouad Hussein so much that he has spilt the beans on al-Qaida´s master plan. There must be something particularly trustworthy about the Jordanian journalist Fouad Hussein. After all, he has managed to get the most sought after terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to open up to him. Maybe it helped that they spent time together in prison many years ago -- when Hussein was a political prisoner he successfully negotiated for al-Zarqawi to be released from solitary confinement. Or is it because of the honest and direct way in which he puts his ideas onto paper? Whatever the reason, the result is that a film which Hussein made about al-Zarqawi has even been shown on al-Qaida affiliated Web sites. "That showed me that they at least felt understood," the journalist says. Even for an Arab journalist it is no easy matter getting in touch with al-Qaida´s inner circle. Nevertheless, Hussein, who is based in Amman, Jordan, has succeeded in turning his correspondence with the terrorist into a remarkable book: "al-Zarqawi - al-Qaida´s Second Generation." If you meet Hussein, as you might when he is relaxing in Amman´s Café Vienna, you see he is calm and laid-back, without any of the glamour of a secret service spy. But what this small, slim man has to report is nothing less than the world´s most dangerous terrorist network´s plan of action: al-Qaida´s strategy for the next two decades. It is both frightening and absurd, a lunatic plan conceived by fanatics who live in their own world, but who continually manage to break into the real world with their brutal acts of violence. One of Hussein´s most sensational sources for the book, according to what he told SPIEGEL Online, was Seif al-Adl. The Egyptian terrorist, who is suspected of taking part in the attacks on the American Embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi in 1998, has a ransom of US$5 million on his head from the FBI. Secret services suspect that al-Adl is now in Iran. AFP Have you seen this man? If so, you could earn yourself 5 million dollars. Seif al-Adl is not only wanted by the FBI but is also one of Hussein´s main sources in the book. To prove that he really has had contact to al-Adl, Hussein includes in the first two pages of the book a copy of a hand-written letter the wanted man sent to the author. In the original document, which is 15 pages long, al-Adl describes the disagreements between al-Zarqawi and Osama bin Laden during the Afghanistan war. "Statements from Seif al-Adl have also crept into the chapter on al-Qaida´s strategy," explains Fouad Hussein. An Islamic Caliphate in Seven Easy Steps In the introduction, the Jordanian journalist writes, "I interviewed a whole range of al-Qaida members with different ideologies to get an idea of how the war between the terrorists and Washington would develop in the future." What he then describes between pages 202 and 213 is a scenario, proof both of the terrorists´ blindness as well as their brutal single-mindedness. In seven phases the terror network hopes to establish an Islamic caliphate which the West will then be too weak to fight. The First Phase Known as "the awakening" -- this ..." |
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