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Falling into al-Qaeda's trap.(Brief article)
Defenders of the Bush administration's war in Iraq have often invoked the "flypaper strategy"--namely, the idea that by attracting Islamist radicals to Iraq, the United States would be fighting them "over there" rather than "over here."
The problem is this: getting the United States mired in Mesopotamia is central to al-Qaeda's strategy. To borrow a phrase from Steinbeck's classic novella The Moon Is Down, the Islamist movement sees the United States as the flies in this scenario, and are quite happy to have the "flies" conquer the "flypaper."
That strategy is mapped out in The Management of Savagery, a 268-page document written by al-Qaeda insider Abu Bakr Naji and recently published in an English translation by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. As summarized by ABC News: "Al-Qaeda's strategic vision involves challenging the United States and its allies overseas using small- to medium-scale attacks." The manual concludes that the 9/11 attack "forced ...
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