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“The war in Iraq[…]has broadened and deepened the pools of recruits for
jihadist extremists in the Muslim world, by ‘demonstrating’ beyond Bin
Laden’s wildest dreams that the true American objective was to invade
the land of Islam. […] Previous battlegrounds for al-Qa’ida types were on
the periphery of the Arab world […]. With Iraq, these battlegrounds are
now at the heart of the Arab Middle East. By fighting the invader, these
terrorists strike a strong chord everywhere in the Arab world, even
among those who, in Iraq, were indeed liberated as they were invaded. By
casting the war in Iraq as a key stage in ‘the war on terror’, President Bush
seemed once again to play into Bin Laden’s and Zarqawi’s agendas –
especially given the fact that the war was seen by the world as a war of
choice, not a war of necessity” 109
Infine, il Paese pare rispondere perfettamente all’identikit dell’avamposto ideale
tracciato da Ayman al Zawahiri, che, in un passaggio del suo scritto “Knights under
the Prophet’s Banner”, afferma che l’instaurazione di una base qa’idista nel cuore del
mondo arabo rappresenti una precondizione irrinunciabile e da attuarsi a qualsiasi
costo per la vittoria finale:
“ «Victory for the Islamic movements against the world alliance cannot be
attained unless these movements possess an Islamic base in the heart of
the Arab region» He notes that mobilizing and arming the nation will not
yeld tangible results until a fundamentalist base is established in the
region: «The establishment of a Muslim state in the hearth of the Islamic
world is not an easy or close target. However, it is the hope of the Muslim
nation to restore its fallen caliphate and regain its lost glory… We must
not despair of the repeated strikes and calamities. We must never lay
down our arms no matter how much losses or sacrifices we endure. Let us
start again after every strike, even if we had to begin from scratch» ” 110 .
109 Philippe Errera, Three Circles of Threat, Survival, vol. 47, no. 1, Primavera 2005, p 82
110 Ayman al-Zawahiri, Knights under the Prophet’s Banner, in Ely Karmon, Al-Qa’ida and the War on Terror after the
War in Iraq, Middle East Review of International Affairs,Vol. 10, No.1, Marzo 2006,p. 1
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