[lit-ideas] Terrorism Flashback
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:34:01 -0400
>>Over what? A cancelled idea?
The idea was canceled either (a) because it was not
destructive enough, and/or (b) it would interfere with a
much more destructive attack already being planned.
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Q: What's the leading theory about why al-Zawahiri called
them off?
Suskind: What has been concluded for the most part is this:
al-Qaeda's thinking is that a second-wave attack should be
more destructive and more disruptive than 9/11. Why? Because
that would create an upward arc of terror and anticipation
between the second and ostensibly a third attack. That fear
and terror is a central goal of the al-Qaeda strategy.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1205320,00.html
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