al Qaeda Attacks in Saudi Arabia
It is important to be patient. As things heat up in Iraq and the Democrats yelp “Quagmire!” like lisping sodomized ducks, I have been telling myself - and others who would listen - that we are on the down-slope now in Iraq. Simply by getting rid of Saddam we win for each and every day that he is not in power. This fact tends to snowball since the longer he is out of power, the less likely he is to regain it. And if Saddam is alive, time is on our side as well. He can’t slip up for fear of getting caught; we just have to get lucky once. One suggestion I have: make the reward for his capture $1 Billion. Who wants to be a billionaire? I think it would be worth the money and would gladly contribute my $3.50.
Now things are getting interesting in Saudi Arabia. By attacking a predominantly Muslim enclave in Riyadh, al-Qaeda has shown its true nature to the disaffected Muslim masses who has sympathized with the group in the past. It’s one thing to kill infidel women and children. It’s a whole other thing entirely to kill Muslims. In Saudi Arabia. During Ramadan. Note that there is even a term for attacking one’s own fellow Muslims: as al-takfeer walhigrah (atonement and withdrawal). The crime of these (predominantly poor) lesser Muslims? Allowing women to drive and sharing Western food.
al-Qaeda has employed this tactic numerous times, as the Daily Telegraph article notes. However it fails to mention the Muslim on Muslim violence common in Pakistan, as well as the indiscriminate shelling of Kabul by the Taliban. It also fails to recognize the fact that as leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar has killed more Muslims than any living (or dead) American or Jew. Add in those killed by Osama bin Laden, and it becomes plain that the greatest danger a Muslim faces is not from an American bullet or an Israeli bomb, but an al-Qaeda suicide bomber.
Attacks such as Saturday serve to remind Muslims - and our “allies” the Saudis - that from the al-Qaeda/Taliban perspective, the circle of righteousness is quite tight and 99% of Islam is not in it. The Saudis are especially at risk since al Qaeda hates the Saudi royal family more than the Bush family, and the former make much easier targets. We now have to see how the attack effects the American position in Iraq. One would expect it to lead to further arrests on the Saudi side of the border with Iraq, preventing some attacks against Iraqis and foreigners in Iraq. It should also encourage more cooperation between Saudi and American intelligence services.
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