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...militants and Iranian agents, no group claimed responsibility. In the 1980s and '90s, Sunni-Shi'a tensions led to sporadic violence, promoted by forces from outside: first from Shi'ite Iran and then from the Sunni Arab states. In recent times, the violence has been homegrown. Tariq headed a militant outfit that backed the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and denounced Shi'as as infidels, until it was proscribed in 2002 by the government. He and his followers were implicated in the deaths of scores of Shi'as, including more than 50 killed in a July attack on a mosque...
Recognizing that he could not lead a standard insurgency in Saudi Arabia—largely because the U.S. military was there by invitation, not force—bin Laden instead needed to galvanize the moderate Arab majorities in the Gulf to oppose the U.S. and support Islamic revolution. To achieve this, he progressively escalated his strikes against the U.S.—the East African embassies, the U.S.S. Cole and finally the World Trade Center and the Pentagon—in an effort to wake the proverbial sleeping giant. It is logical to speculate that bin Laden was counting...
...conspicuous military operations from their soil, and the majority of U.S. forces stationed there have been withdrawn. We have invaded Iraq and deposed a regime that bin Laden hated only slightly less than the United States, but was nonetheless incapable of openly challenging himself. The popular response on the Arab street, as suggested by the massive protests in Cairo and Amman, clearly indicate growing animosity towards the U.S. Finally, the U.S.’s inability to quickly stabilize and reconstruct Iraq—regardless of fault—has created a focal point for anti-American Islamic militants...
...Iraq Mess, Sept. 15], you described how bin Laden's network is rallying new recruits to battle U.S. forces in Iraq. It seems likely that the same political situation that made it possible for the Taliban to take control in Afghanistan will now emerge in Iraq. Foreign, mainly Arab, volunteers may enter the country in massive numbers, carrying with them one great desire: to fight the U.S. soldiers who occupy the country. The foreseeable future looks bleak when one takes into account that the voluntary jihadists have a clear-cut goal and a fanatic determination and that...
...Hostility toward America has reached shocking levels." U.S. ADVISORY GROUP ON PUBLIC DIPLOMACY FOR THE ARAB AND MUSLIM WORLD, a panel appointed by the White House to review the U.S.'s image, in a newly released report...