Al Qaeda is preventing the closing of Guantanamo. Guantanamo will unlikely be closed without the American people facing up to the fact that al Qaeda is doing what it can to prevent a major asset for their propaganda from being closed down. (PS Some will say this blog is ridiculous because there are no al Qaeda troops in Afghanistan, however there are al Qaeda suicide bombers.)
On Inauguration Day President Obama announced that he was planning to close Guantanamo within a year. On that same day bin Laden made a video that al Qaeda of Yemen, then new group, was merging with al Qaeda of Saudi Arabia and the new head would be Jamal al Badiwi. Al Badiwi one of those convicted of bombing the US Cole. The US turned him over to Yemen custody which he escaped for a while. Later he and other al Qaeda members in an amnesty process each in their own words condemned the idea that Islam believed in attacking the innocent and he was free again,
www.economist.com/node/13041120
As a supposed head of an al Qaeda he never did anything. But think of the fallout on the Obama administration if someone like him had been released by Obama from Guantanamo and was pressured, perhaps under knife point, to claim to be al Qaeda’s new leader.
The US talks of Afghanistan policy between one election and the next. But bin Laden talks of the over a thousand-year war between Islam and the West, and claims that Islam stopped being the leader of the world because the idea of a permanent war fell out of favor. And that Muslim culture will continue to be picked on as inferior unless Islam becomes a permanent warring state. The CIA‘s own annalists admit that bin Laden’s videotape chiding Bush for reading “the Little Goat” instead of attending to business was an attempt to get Bush re-elected.
Bin Laden’s mind isn’t on nukes or chemicals but on bankrupting the US. Even the amateurs who sent the package bomb that didn’t explode or those who sent the underpants bomber bragged on how much the US spent in response compared to what they spent.
France also has been countering al Qaeda. An al Qaeda faction also happens the be involved in North East Africa especially in Mali, where the US hasn’t been involved since 2006. France is handling things there. Al Qaeda has had some very successful kidnapings for ransom. But France attacked instead of paying ransom. Bin Laden video threatened the Eiffel Tower, and general mayhem on France a country that is almost 5% Islam. Goggle France declares war against al Qaeda, and vice versa to get a lot of details. As far as baiting France into bankruptcy, France’s defense budget steadily declines.
I could make armchair suggestions that Obama announce that we are getting out even if al Qaeda suicide-bombs US withdrawing troops. But the main thing is to realize that Al Qaeda plans to win and will be very disappointed if all the deaths of Muslims al Qaeda caused would be in vain. I wonder what would happen if Obama announced that his al Qaeda policy would be whatever France might suggest it should be.
Sufi Muslims are being slaughtered in Pakistan. The Sufi belief that Islam has something to do with love infuriates al Qaeda.
www.twocircles.net/2010jul03/indian_sufi_sunnis_condemn_lahore_blasts_talibani_jehad.html
Imam Abdul Rauf a Sufi who wants a cultural center which will include a mosque, near the 9/11 attack, went to the US government to offer his help in stopping al Qaeda and calls al Qaeda a “cult of death” rather unSufi-like. Some so-called US patriots condemn him for not likewise condemning Hamas, which would also be un-Sufi like. In the meantime many Americans ask why US Muslims don’t speak out more against al Qaeda while showing anything but appreciation for a Muslim who is systematically doing so.
In the end it is more than possible that al Qaeda will win, and the US will be no more. I actually don’t believe this because I think we will wise up instead, but as to this belief I have of yet no evidence to back it up.
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