Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, July 17, 2009 1:15:05 AM
"It can thus be expected that al-Qaida will seek to unleash new attacks on U.S. interests in an effort to intensify its drive to expel America from Muslim lands. Bin-Laden may also deem the current economic difficulties as a perfect opportunity to deal a coup de grace to America's power itself."
Obama's Middle East Strategy Meets Reality
By Avigdor Haselkorn
There is good reason to believe the goals of the 9/11attacks were not just to inflict maximum casualties, economic dislocation and humiliation on America, but also to provoke a strong US response. Osama bin-Laden and his band of murderers apparently calculated that a large scale American military reaction will ignite the Muslim world and possibly lead to an all-out confrontation with the infidels. The plot failed but the current Muslim-US tensions must be viewed with great satisfaction in al-Qaida's hideouts.
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