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**Raj_Copi_Jin** · 10-22-2005, 07:00 AM

So you see it as more of an attack on the increasingly enfeebled Mubarek then? Hurt the tourist industry, force him to rely on or work with Israel and the 2 billion dollars a year from the US and wait for magic hour when the Egyptians rise up? I suspect then that al Qaeda has been deluded into believing that arab states are as tentative dealing with real on the ground terrorist threats as we are. We never really hear all that much about squashing insurrections in the arab world, do we? That't usually because they are merciless.

It's possible that al Qaeda wants to drive a wedge between between nominally secular arab states and the west but then that would give lie to their actions in Saudi Arabia. Puzzling.

10-22-2005, 07:00 AM	#3
Raj_Copi_Jin Join Date Oct 2005 Age 48 Posts 4,533 Senior Member	So you see it as more of an attack on the increasingly enfeebled Mubarek then? Hurt the tourist industry, force him to rely on or work with Israel and the 2 billion dollars a year from the US and wait for magic hour when the Egyptians rise up? I suspect then that al Qaeda has been deluded into believing that arab states are as tentative dealing with real on the ground terrorist threats as we are. We never really hear all that much about squashing insurrections in the arab world, do we? That't usually because they are merciless. It's possible that al Qaeda wants to drive a wedge between between nominally secular arab states and the west but then that would give lie to their actions in Saudi Arabia. Puzzling.
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