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...within this context of failure that the networks to which bin Laden had lent his name and image began a strategy of substitution. The strategy involved focusing on purely terrorist activities by small groups and striking highly symbolic targets, especially American interests in the Arabian peninsula: the 1995 car bombing of a U.S.-run training facility for the Saudi National Guard in Riyadh, which killed five Americans; the destruction of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998; and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in October 2000. The enormous media impact of these operations was designed to demonstrate...
From his refuge in Afghanistan, bin Laden began issuing "declarations of jihad" against America for "occupying" the holy land of Saudi Arabia. In 1998 he ordered followers to "kill the Americans and their allies, civilians and military...in any country in which it is possible." The principal target was the U.S. and its relationship with Saudi Arabia. But the Americans weren't disposed to negotiate or yield to terrorist blackmail. Then came 9/11...
...ratcheting up the scale of terror, the jihadist authors of 9/11 sought to embody a Muslim "vanguard" (as bin Laden himself said in his videotape declaration, broadcast Oct. 7) capable of mobilizing the Islamic masses once and for all. The murderous operation had a double goal: to claim American lives on American soil, and to trigger a U.S. retaliation against Taliban-ruled Afghanistan that would turn the country into a massive cemetery for U.S. troops and precipitate the fall of America. The terrorists had in mind the Afghan rout of the Soviet army, which helped provoke the implosion...
...make such an appeal, and the radical plot resulted in failure. The American army--and its allies--did not become mired in Afghanistan, and it was the Taliban that was routed. Al-Qaeda's infrastructure was significantly damaged, even if precious little is known about the fate of bin Laden and his lieutenants or their ability to mount new operations around the globe. The Qaeda threat remains, but beyond the fascination with bin Laden among some Muslim youth who view him as a defiant hero, most of the Muslim world has followed the lead of imams who refused to lend...
...suicide bombings perpetrated by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. In the eyes of these imams, Israel represents a legitimate target of jihad because of its alleged usurpation of an Islamic land. That conflict represents a just war and was a natural choice to replace the jihad of bin Laden and the Taliban...