Know . . .

. . . your enemy . . .


(from http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/)
". . . The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy, and can help the West know its enemy and predict its behavior. Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates) than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million.

We have misunderstood the nature of the Islamic State in at least two ways. First, we tend to see jihadism as monolithic, and to apply the logic of al‑Qaeda to an organization that has decisively eclipsed it. The Islamic State supporters I spoke with still refer to Osama bin Laden as “Sheikh Osama,” a title of honor. But jihadism has evolved since al-Qaeda’s heyday, from about 1998 to 2003, and many jihadists disdain the group’s priorities and current leadership. . . "

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(from The Hidden History of 9-11, Edited by Paul Zarembka)
". . . According to Chossudovsky (2004), the 9-11 attacks have been used as "a war pretext incident," in which the over twenty-year history of the CIA inventing and supporting the terrorist network that is now call al-Qaeda has been "shoved to the background".

    The fact that the successive US governments since the Soviet-Afghan
    war have supported and abetted the Islamic terror network is no longer
    mentioned for obvious reasons.  It would break the consensus regarding
    al-Qaeda as the outside enemy of America, which is a crucial building
    block of the entire National Security doctrine. (Chossudovsky, 2004)

Focusing on the 9-11 "hijackers," we have shown that the US government withheld crucial evidence from the public for no justifiable reason, fabricated other evidence in support of its story, and confiscated and destroyed still other evidence which would prove that story a falsehood. . ."

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