Bin Laden's war with the Saudis is out in the open
Walid Phares:
"Since I have been asked to analyze them since the Fall of 2001, I have always argued that Bin Laden's tapes have to be taken seriously. When he called his Mujahedeen to attack infidels around the Middle East last October on an audiotape released on al-Jazeera, he was, in fact, issuing orders.
"Last May, Al-Qaida engaged itself in its first major terror attack within Saudi Arabia when it targeted the Western compound. That was a testing strike. It could have been read also as a threat against the ruling establishment in the Kingdom. The princes who have been showing signs of reluctance in supporting the "sheik of Jihad" were taught a lesson, according to circles sympathetic to Bin Laden.
"...The attack against the al-Muhayya neighborhood is typical of al-Qaida methodology. The organization attacks the "infidels" wherever it can reach them in Arabia, then waits to see the authorities falling in front of hard choices; either with the infidels or against them. That's what drives al-Qaida and its Jihadists today: Simply divide the world into what they want it to be, the world of international law and the world of Jihad."
Walid Phares:
"Since I have been asked to analyze them since the Fall of 2001, I have always argued that Bin Laden's tapes have to be taken seriously. When he called his Mujahedeen to attack infidels around the Middle East last October on an audiotape released on al-Jazeera, he was, in fact, issuing orders.
"Last May, Al-Qaida engaged itself in its first major terror attack within Saudi Arabia when it targeted the Western compound. That was a testing strike. It could have been read also as a threat against the ruling establishment in the Kingdom. The princes who have been showing signs of reluctance in supporting the "sheik of Jihad" were taught a lesson, according to circles sympathetic to Bin Laden.
"...The attack against the al-Muhayya neighborhood is typical of al-Qaida methodology. The organization attacks the "infidels" wherever it can reach them in Arabia, then waits to see the authorities falling in front of hard choices; either with the infidels or against them. That's what drives al-Qaida and its Jihadists today: Simply divide the world into what they want it to be, the world of international law and the world of Jihad."
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