[lit-ideas] Re: Terrorism Flashback
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:32:49 -0700 (PDT)
Ah, you know everything about Al-Queda thinking. Maybe
that's the place to sign up.
O.K.
--- Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>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.
>
> ______________
>
>
> 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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