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2007-04-29 Terror Networks

Is Al Qaedas jihad entering terminal phase?

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Posted by ryuge 2007-04-29 08:37|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Pakistans interior minister, Aftab Sherpao, saying that the arrest was a significant development"

And Sherpao was targeted by a very-nearly-successful assassination attempt later that same week. Coincidence?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-04-29 09:01|| 2007-04-29 09:01|| Front Page Top

#2 "Irans real enemy is Al Qaeda. It is killing Shias in Iraq"

No, Iran's real enemy is the West. The Shia lost in Iraq are acceptable, if it leads to defeat of the West. Plus, a stable, quasi-free Iraq, even under Shia leadership, is not a comfortable situation for the MM - it could be contagious. Both AQ and the MM have the same interest in causing chaos in Iraq - they just see different end-states to the chaos (and neither sees chaos itself as the end state - must have missed that lecture in Thermodynamics).

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-04-29 09:07|| 2007-04-29 09:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Now Al Qaeda stands poised against Iran. In Iraq, where it has chosen to base itself, it will ultimately be less safe than in Pakistan.

Spinning hard to conceal the widely known fact that the Al Qaeda leadership are comfortably ensconced in Pakistan's tribal regions near the Afghan border, under the protection of both the tribal elders and Pakistan's oh-so-clever ISI wallahs. AQ based in Iraq? I think most definitely not.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-29 13:03|| 2007-04-29 13:03|| Front Page Top

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