Future Jihad Terrorist Strategies Against West – Walid Phares

He asked the regime to authorize him to lead the Islamist jihad against the Baathists. In reality, he wanted to kill two birds with one stone. By pounding Saddam’s forces in Kuwait and possibly inside Iraq, he wanted to return as a leader in the Wahabi country. His real strategic aim was to be received as a commander of the jihadists and eventually, in a historic fantasy, as a newly anointed caliph. By way of comparison, he would be an Islamist Trotsky who would become an Emir Stalin, and perhaps even a jihadic Hitler.

His dreams shattered when his own Wahabi rulers dismissed his plans, ignored his jihadist achievements in Afghanistan, and in the worst insult of all, extended their invitation to the very archenemies he wanted to fight next: the infidel Americans. In this crossroads between the end of the cold war and the beginning of the Gulf War, the new jihad was redefined. From within Saudi Arabia, radical clerics were developing what would become neo-Wahabism—Wahabism beyond the state considerations of the ruling Saudis.

Many joined in without stating it. The neo-Wahabis claimed they were the true Salafists— accusing the state Wahabis, the king, and the bulk of his emirs of being false Salafis who had betrayed the pure objectives of Wahabism’s founding fathers. The new wave, reinforced by the returning veterans from Afghanistan, mounted an all-out political assault on the American presence on Arabian soil. As soon as the operations ended in Kuwait and the Iraqi regime signed a cease-fire agreement, the Salafists were at work to regroup and ready themselves for the new war: the march toward the rest of the world.

But the action undertaken by the United States and the coalition changed the geopolitics of the region. For one thing, unlike Vietnam and Beirut in 1983, the “strong Americans” had reemerged internationally. Winds were blowing under their wings.

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Chapter Three After the Caliphate Chapter Four The Nazi Alliance Chapter Five The Communist Dilemma Chapter Six Israel’s Fate Chapter Seven What the Cold War Meant for the Future Chapter Eight The New Jihad Chapter Nine Jihadist Strategies against America Chapter Ten The Inevitability of 9/11 Chapter Eleven Bin Laden’s Strategy against America Chapter Twelve The Root Causes of America’s Failure Chapter Thirteen Projecting Future Jihad Chapter Fourteen The Clash of Strategies: America Versus Jihad Chapter Fifteen America: Jihad’s Second Generation Chapter Sixteen Mutant Jihad Chapter Seventeen Guidelines and Prescriptive Policies Conclusion Notes Index Praise for Walid Phares and Future Jihad Copyright OceanofPDF.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book is the result of a lifetime of observation and analysis.

Its findings were drawn from decades of reading and research and patient listening to opinions expressed in a variety of forms. The birth of the book has to be credited to an endless number of people I have met in my long journey across the world. My first acknowledgment must be to my readers, audiences, and faithful participants in the many forums to which I have made presentations. I must thank everyone who over the years had encouraged me to put these thoughts into writing.

My second acknowledgment is to Cliff May, the president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington. I owe Cliff for his continuous support for my projects, and, along with my colleagues at the Foundation, I thank him for hosting me as a senior fellow and for deeply understanding the importance of my work and promoting it. My third acknowledgment goes to the team to which I owe the publishing project.

Lynne Rabinoff, my very patient agent, never lost hope in this book, even as I postponed my decision for two years. She relentlessly encouraged me to take the step and make this book a reality.

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