[MaineVoter2002]

Al Qaeda

1993 World Trade Center bombing

1993 plots against Holland Tunnel, Empire State Building, UN headquarters

Dec. 1994 attempt to plunge airliner into Eiffel Tower

Mid-1990s plot to bomb CIA headquarters

December 1999 plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport

October 2000 bombing of USS Cole

September 2001 plot to crash aircraft into U.S. Capitol and White House

[cripplecreek]

They want the world to live under the law of allah or die.

[SittinYonder]

What do Islamist terrorists want?

World domination. Anyone who doesn't get that must be answering the PEW polls.

[EBH]

And so try and explain that we are indeed at war with a nation, a nation whose rule of law is a theocracy by nature.

Can a free nation be at war with a theocratic government and not face the condemnations of prejudice?

[Selous]

"What do Islamist terrorists want?"

The answer is distressingly simple. They want our souls.

[sgtbono2002]

I dont think they really want anything, They get off on the power to frighten and commit heinous acts.

They are people with small minds who think their act will bring them some sort of fame.
Their leaders get off on knowing that their followers are stupid enough to do their bidding.

[wyattearp]

Who cares what they want? Just kill 'em.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

I thought it was all about virgins in the afterlife.

[Tacis]

The real answer is "Everything they can extort!" Thier list changes constanty, influenced by their last victory or failure. Therefore, there is nothimg that can be done to placate them for more than a short period.

If we surrendered like the scumbag dems want and got out of Iraq and Afghanistan, they would soon want Israel gone. Then, they'd want Spain back and independent states in France and Germany. Current Muslim nations would convert to fundamentalism. Then, they'd want, maybe, Kansas. And, in Europe and the Americas, women would have to comply with their silly rules. All the while, we'd have triator dems saying, "If we don't make them mad, maybe, they'll go away." And, they on;y thing that would stop Muslim world domination would be a Muslim civil war over whether Mohammed boinked dogs or camels.

[protest1]

In nearly all cases, the jihadi terrorists have a patently self-evident ambition: to establish a world dominated by Muslims, Islam, and Islamic law, the Shari'a. Or, again to cite the Daily Telegraph, their "real project is the extension of the Islamic territory across the globe, and the establishment of a worldwide ‘caliphate' founded on Shari'a law."

What the terrorists want is abundantly clear. It requires monumental denial not to acknowledge it, but we Westerners have risen to the challenge.

[Little Pig]

As long as mainstream society thinks that if they just redress the right grievance, everything will be all right, we will continue to be attacked.

This is all that needs to be said:

As Hussein Massawi, former leader of Hezbollah, neatly put it, "We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you."

[IronJack]

Upon attacking the B'nai B'rith headquarters and two other Washington, D.C. buildings in 1977, a Hanafi Muslim group ...

Shot during that "occupation" was none other than the man who rose to become a hero of the DC underclass, everybody's favorite cocaine vacuum: Marion Barry.