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Kohlmann on Zarqawi, the internet
Q. Well let me just start by asking a really simple question from what youve looked at on the internet: how significant is Abu Musab al Zarqawi or some people have actually said to me in our research for this that his role is totally exaggerated.A. I think thats a mistake. I think anyone who thinks that Zarqawis role is exaggerated doesnt understand the way that al Qaeda functions. Al Qaeda is an organisation that works like a leach, it requires a host country from which to manifest itself. It needs a conflict, it breathes on conflict, on violence. When you see al Qaedas origins in Afghanistan, it breathes out of the Afghan civil war, it continues through the Bosnian civil war, through the Chechnya civil war, it breathes on violence and conflict. It needs military leaders. Without those military leaders, without young very militant folks like Abu Musab al Zarqawi, al Qaeda doesnt move forward. Zarqawi is the new face of al Qaeda, hes the cutting edge sword of al Qaeda he is the terrorist arm of al Qaeda right now and everyone thats willing to carry out a suicide operation, any one whos willing to crash a plain into a building, any one whos willing to blow up a bomb, that person idolizes Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Last month I was in a protest rally in London and it was made very clear by the people that were organising that rally that we must speak to the infidels and the language of Abu Musab al Zarqawi and Osama bin Laden because that is the only language that they understand. He is a symbol, he is a military leader, he is al Qaeda. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-05-02 |
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