Al Qaeda's North African plot

Washington Times:

North African authorities say a wave of suicide attacks in Morocco and Algeria over the past week may be the first phase of an al Qaeda plot drafted in Sudan three years ago.
The plan calls for a reign of terror, implantation of guerrilla units in mountain hideouts, a paralysis of Algerian oil supplies and of tourist resorts in Tunisia and Morocco, a senior North African official said.
Other officials said last week's bombings in Algiers, which killed 33 persons and wounded 22, and a series of suicide explosions in Casablanca, Morocco's main port, may signal the start of the campaign.
Algerian officials said the original plot called for the area known as the Maghreb, spanning Africa's Mediterranean coast, to be plunged into a reign of terror reminiscent of the "decade of blood" waged by Islamic fanatics in Algeria in the 1990s, which claimed 100,000 victims.
Although that revolt was crushed, its surviving perpetrators have remained in hiding, rejecting a reconciliation offer from Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Last year in March, the president renewed the offer "even to those with blood on their hands." Since then, hard-line Armed Islamic Groups have been transformed into the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (known by the French acronym GSPC), which last fall was renamed as the al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.
The transformation was reportedly ordered by al Qaeda's chief, Osama Bin Laden, the world's most wanted terrorist.
Bin Laden's plan to destabilize three North African countries became known to Tunisian officials early in 2004, and Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali mentioned it to President Bush during a trip to Washington in February of that year.
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This is another example of how simplistic the Democrats vision of events in Iraq is. We are fighting an enemy with ambitions to dominate the world. Retreating from one battlefield in this war is not going to satiate the enemy. These attacks cannot be blamed on a US invasion or wrong intelligence by the US. We are fighting an enemy who wants the world to bow to its weird religious beliefs and is willing to murder and terrorize as many people as it takes. He will not be defeated with Cindy Sheehan logic or wishful thinking and he will not quit just because we do.