BS: Spain elects new Premier

Subject: RE: BS: Spain elects new Premier
From: Wolfgang
Date: 18 Mar 04 - 07:46 AM

Does anyone have a link to the booklet Iraqi Jihad, hopes and risks: Analysis of the reality and visions for the future, and actual steps in the path of the blessed Jihad.? I have only found a version in what I guess is Arabic. In German or English I have only read summaries and I'd like to read it all.

There the Al Qaeda strategy is laid out quite clearly, why they start with Spain and that they actually had the change of government in Spain as a tactical aim. By the way, they do not expect Britain to give in after two or three attacks. They think that only public pressure will change British politics.

As for the USA. they say "We believe...Iraqi resistance will be able to increase the costs for the USA near to 400 Billion Dollars... the expected upper limit". Their thinking is very differentiated and they are out to use a different approach with each country. With the USA, as becomes clear in the quote, they see financial costs as the best means of pressure and not loss of American lives.

They do not say so explicitely, but 9/11 from their point of view was a success for the economical damage and not for the human damage. The concrete aim for Iraq is a strict islamistic state without any interference.

Wolfgang