Via Instapundit and The Fourth Rail comes this article from the German magazine Der Spiegal about Al Qaeda’s future plans.
The article descripes a seven-phase strategic plan culminating the establishing of a nuclear-armed Islamic Caliphate which would then confront and defeat the weakened West.
From the article:
What is interesting is that major attacks against the West are not even mentioned by Fouad Hussein. Terrorism here cannot be ignored — but it seems these attacks simply supplement the larger aim of setting up an Islamic caliphate. Attacks such as those in New York, Madrid and London would in this case not be ends in themselves, but rather means to a achieve a larger purpose — steps in a process of increasing insecurity in the West.
Assuming this is true, its not really news. Al Qaeda’s dream of returning the Middle East to the way it was in the 10th century when the caliphate controlled it has been known for years. What it establishes beyond any doubt, though, is that the real battlefield in the war against Islamofacism is not in the streets of New York, Madrid, or London, but where its always been —- in the Middle East and, right now, in Iraq.
Nevertheless, we should not deceive ourselves into thinking that something on the scale of 9/11, or worse, cannot happen again.
