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| Al-Qaeda waiting for US-Iran clash |
| 2006-05-19 |
| As Washington is stepping up pressure on Iran to stop enriching uranium, the Al-Qaeda, for its part, is waiting for a new opportunity to expand the circle of war with the United States. Arab Gulf sources believe the Al-Qaeda-linked groups in the Gulf and the Red Sea are preparing for the period that will follow a US-Iran clash over the Iranian nuclear issue, as it waited for the US invasion of Iraq. According to these sources, the Al-Qaeda thinks this clash will offer it a new great opportunity to open a large front after Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya and Waziristan in Pakistan. A US-Iran clash will not have a limited impact. It will rather have repercussions on the whole region. All the tacit agreements between Iran and the USA on Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to collapse. In addition, Iran and Al-Qaeda may put their differences aside and stand side by side against the United States. The GCC states, including notably Saudi Arabia, do not want the situation to deteriorate any further. They rather prefer to contain it before it is too late. They believe the way out of the crisis is to see the Americans agreeing to their demand to have the Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction. Circles close to the Saudi Foreign Ministry say the Saudis will not give up efforts to settle the Iranian nuclear issue despite Washington and Tehran hardening their positions. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #6 Of course, the first thing that would have to be done would be to round up all the dummycritter "peaceniks" and send them to Guantanamo... You misspelled "cannon fodder". |
| Posted by: AzCat 2006-05-19 23:08 |
| #5 since they've been so successful in all their objectives in Iraq that they have to find a new battlefield |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-05-19 16:59 |
| #4 al-Q is making a very bad assumption, namely that "the Ummah" will at some point rise up to defeat the US and whoever else. Again and again they posit that *something* will finally motivate *everybody* to take up arms and go to war. However, the US knows better. Most people are not inclined to fight at all, and a minority will only fight if it is their neighborhood. And only a tiny number will leave their neighborhood to go fight somewhere else, even if someone holds their hand and pays for them to go. This is why armies are created only by governments. Only governments can stimulate men to go fight en masse. Otherwise, you just have a small handful of hotheads, and when they are gone, they are gone. And the US has been systematically bleeding the hotheads throughout the Moslem world in Iraq and Afghanistan. There just aren't that many left. So al-Q stupidly looks forward to the Moslem world getting thumped. It assumes, time and again, that this will be *the* last straw. In a US and Iran fight, the Iranian government will demand that all non-Mullahs go to the front lines and die for the cause of the Mullahs. But the US is not going to slaughter a bunch of green and unwilling recruits. We will go around them and take out the dedicated and determined Mullah supporters, and hopefully the Mullahs themselves. Optimally, the tens or hundreds of thousands of green recruits sent to the front will get little out of the experience other than some foot blisters and an appetite from not eating a whole lot for two or three weeks. Then they will go home. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-05-19 16:38 |
| #3 All the tacit agreements between Iran and the USA on Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to collapse. Oh, really? And what might these "tacit agreements" be? In addition, Iran and Al-Qaeda may put their differences aside and stand side by side against the United States. What, will Iran now give them their Teheran apartments rent free? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-05-19 16:10 |
| #2 I would love to see the United States go totally anal on all the governments of the Middle East, from pakistan to libya, and south to somalia and sudan. I'd even volunteer to go back into uniform and be assigned anywhere the Air Force wants me. I can't speak for OS or CyberSarge, but I'm sure the sentiment is valid for a lot of us "old fogies". It wouldn't take very long to build the US military into a 10-million man force, if the Government would quit playing games. Of course, the first thing that would have to be done would be to round up all the dummycritter "peaceniks" and send them to Guantanamo... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-05-19 16:04 |
| #1 Like Saint Bill, IRAN wants to make it categorically absolutely undeniably, unequivocally unconditionally, but only co-incidentally, clear to its ME neightbors - Iran and MadMoud will NOT attack or destroy its ME neighbors! SSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH,Iranian-supported/controlled Radical Terror groups-militias will, ergo Iran cannot be blamed for anything. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-05-19 02:11 |