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Very interesting. This is the kind of thing one would expect, although it's impossible to know if this interpretation is correct.

I note that even Surat 1, has, as the last and the longest of only seven short verses, the following:

The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger (such as the Jews), nor of those who went astray (such as the Christians).

This Surat is described as the introduction or preface, and it presumably sets the tone for the entire Koran, and, therefore, the entire religion. One of the important ways Islam defines itself, right at the beginning of the Koran, is by deriding Judaism and Christianity.

I notice that Surat 9 includes instructions that the unbelievers are to be given four months, at the end of which time all treaties with them are considered to be no longer valid, and the idolaters should then be slain if they do not repent. Wasn't there a similar statement made by Mullah Omar this past Fall?

On the other hand, it seems that if you pick almost any chapter of the Koran, you can find statements just as inflammatory as the ones in chapters 9 and 11. I think the argument is therefore inconclusive.

From:

Translated Text: Hijackers' How-To [Interesting Arabic scholars' analysis] CBS

(The article you posted).

3. Reading and understanding well the chapters Al-Anfaal and At-Tawba
[or chapters 8 and 9 of the Holy Koran]
and understanding their meanings very well
and what Allah has prepared for the believers
or the permanent bliss for the martyrs.

So Chapter 9 certainly is important to them.
Why no reference to chapter 11??
(assuming the text was not altered by someone)

Dunno.
maybe that was meant for a later date.

If you read Surat 11
it reads like a plan
for the ‘final solution’
of the unbelievers.