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[Otto]

I wonder how many Muslims really consider the restoring of the
"caliphate, pure Islam" as politically naive.

2006/8/14, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
>
> I'm reading The Looming Tower, Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11--
> One of Bin Laden and Co.'s stated goals was to encourage massive
> counter-strikes by the USA in response to terrorist actions perpetuated by
> Al Qaeda, so as to gain sympathy for his cause.
>
> These knuckleheads have no political plan/agenda (beyond the naive restoring
> the caliphate, pure islam) besides nihilistic suicide martyrdom
> ops--unfortunately, we have given Bin Laden, who appears not to be a deep
> thinker, a few gifts over the years, the biggest one the fiasco that is iraq
> currently.
>
> just as an aside, I think Zarqawi accomplished his mission--spurring on a
> low-level civil war b/w shiites and sunnis b/4 he was eliminated.
> but only time will tell whether these folks can actually govern beyond the
> bombs.
>
>
> rich
>