Posted on 10/02/2001 5:32:15 PM PDT by Feisty1
Wheels Within Wheels: Osama´s True Goals By Beth Goodtree
While most people have been assuming that Osama bin Laden´s primary goal has been to start a jihad with America, there have been some lesser reported news items that have been niggling at me. On a timeline, these events have bracketed the actual attack and do not, at first glance, seem directly related to September 11 or to each other. But closer scrutiny yields a Machiavellian plan, many years in the making, with the conquering of the United States as Osama´s second goal.
Back on May 3, 2001, the United States was voted off the United Nations Human Rights Commission. This was remarkable for several reasons and should have raised emergency beacons all over the intelligence community. First is the fact that many of those countries which were voted or appointed onto the commission are the ones with the most human rights violations. The new countries voted on were Bahrain, South Korea and Pakistan in the Asia group, and Croatia and Armenia in the Eastern European group. Chosen without a vote were Chile and Mexico for the Latin America group and Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo and Uganda for the Africa group. What should have also set off alarm bells is that some of these countries are controlled by radical Islamists, or have very strong radical Islamist groups operating openly within their borders. And radical Islam is the antithesis of human rights.
Meanwhile, about a month ago, I began seeing reports of our military´s lack of preparedness for future warfare and the need to rethink and streamline certain policies. In particular, I noticed recommendations that we no longer have our military maintain operations that would enable us to fight wars on two fronts. Frankly, making such an announcement seemed to me like an open invitation to our enemies to plan a two-pronged attack.
Then there is the UN Conference on racism that was just held in Durban, South Africa. What makes this conference notable is not that it had been hijacked into a hate fest of Israel, Jews, and Americans. Gather together a bunch of radical Islamists and this agenda will always be the soup de jour. What is remarkable and unprecedented is that all the Islamic countries, moderates, fundamentalist, and radicals alike, agreed with each other. They stood shoulder to shoulder against the ´Great Satan,´ America, and the ´little Satan,´ Israel. Emergency flares should have been going off in America´s foreign relations and security circles.
Fast forward to shortly after the attacks. Saudi Arabia´s King Fahd fled his country with an huge entourage of medical personnel, equipment, and other assistants, for the safety of Switzerland. He appears to be holed up there for the duration, if not permanently. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is playing an on-again-off-again game with us as regards the use of their military bases. All this activity points to some major internal fighting among the differing Saudi factions.
Here´s what I think has been happening. Radical Islamists have been working behind the scenes to take control of national and international institutions. Osama bin Laden has been one of the leaders of this movement. But he also has a personal agenda, which will aid his broader goals of eventual global domination. Osama first wants to take control of Saudi Arabia. Attacking us served two purposes. Not only did it give us the proverbial bloody nose; it's repercussions forced a rift in the tenuous relationships within the Saudi regime. Witness the hasty departure of the Saudi King.
Osama was hoping that we would immediately retaliate against someone Islamic. In fact, he made sure his operatives left a trail of bread crumbs for us to follow so the we would figure out it was his group´s doing. He counted on us indiscriminately bombing Afghanistan, knowing that no major facilities or property would be lost. He doesn´t care about the value of human life in this psychotic ‘jihad´ of his, but our knee-jerk reaction would have one effect. He was hoping that it would radicalize the non-radical Muslims -- especially the ones in Saudi Arabia. (And by the way, there are at least 1 billion Muslims in the world.) Once that happened, he or one of his cells could move in, take over that country and get control of the oil and military assets, which are substantial.
Meanwhile, we´d be bombing the heck out of a pile of rubble. And while our forces were concentrated in sending Afghanistan back to the Paleolithic era, he would be in Saudi Arabia joining forces with Iraq, Syria, and Iran (and maybe Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon too) to wipe Israel off the map. Then we´d be forced to split our forces up between Afghanistan and Israel. And while all this was going on, he´d have terrorist cells planted all over the Western world just waiting to wreak terrorist havoc and further divide our military resources.
Finally, once the Western world had been ‘softened up´ enough, bin Laden and his minions would come and conquer us. He would kill or enslave the non-Muslims and turn our planet into a medieval hellhole of ignorance, intolerance and torture. If you think this scenario is far-fetched, all one has to do is look to the Taliban, Sudan or Indonesia to see what is being done to Christians and other non-Muslims. We don´t want this to be a war against the entire Muslim world, but Osama does. And if all of us aren´t very careful and very clever, he will get his way.
The Middle Eastern countries had nothing to do with our getting kicked off the Human Rights Commission. It was our allies that did that, because the members of the Commission are elected by region. Since the beginning, the West has been allowed three members. Our allies always nominated only three countries, and the United States was always one of them. This time, our allies nominated four countries, giving the rest of the General Assembly a chance to vote against us. They did it because the Bush administration was no longer supporting the European and Canadian radical human rights agenda, regarding homosexual rights and abortion. The Middle Easterners couldn't have controlled that if they had wanted to. And they can only control the nominees for the regions in which they vote. Besides, the Human Rights Commission doesn't really do anything, and certainly has nothing to do with defense. The only really powerful body is the Security Council, where we have a veto.
The rest of the article is just as far off base.
I can't believe that any person who was smart enough to orchestrate all of these events would be dumb enough to assume what kind of reaction he would get from the United States. As I've said many times on this forum, anyone who thinks the U.S. and Britain have sent five aircraft carrier groups to the Indian Ocean just to fire a few cruise missiles up a camel's @ss is naive.
As far as these Middle Eastern countries are concerned, the U.S. and Britain have a weapon that is far more destructive than bombs. It's called the ability to implement a naval blockade on an entire region of the world.
But there's other forces that have been waiting and planning for the right moment/opportunity, that have a loose affilation with Islam. Indigenous people and some blacks have been looking to these days with anticipation.
I was reluctant to write this but these are observations I've made and have held for several years. Ignoring the facts won't make them go away.
There are more than a few that were aware of something big comming down previous to the 11th.
I truely believe that the greatest threat is from within. If the armed forces get bogged down out-country in sufficiant enough numbers things are going to get rough and will never be the same.
What exactly are you saying?
Would you break this down for me?
Whatever his goals are, he is a deadman...
I'll show you respect because you joined on my birthday. ;^)
Please pray tell us, why the article is "far off base"? And, please give us specifics?
You can't. Everything the writer describes will happen. Remember, it was only 60 years ago, they were using ovens.
As if Islamic fundamentalists will want to have anything to do with some baggy-panted thug with an L.A. Lakers jersey and limited verbal skills.
Thank God for the 2nd Amendment.
In fact, if things get crazy, you're going to see legislation for sale of automatic weapons to the public.
Or at the very least, the government will have to look the other way.
I believe we need to destroy this enemy. And, afterwards, the Islamic Hierchary will have to disavow any connection with the recently deceased Taliban, and more importantly, their extremist interpretations of the Koran.
That's, after they will be forced to eat a Big-Mac and fries.
Sure, no problem.
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Indigenous
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some
blacks
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The use of whatever is at hand or at your disposal was already demonstrated several weeks ago.
Anything can be a weapon.
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