What will the new crusades become known as?

[Jim Warren]

The Holy Nuclear Crusades?

Folks, that's what we are witnessing today, right now!
Not WW III, but the next (and maybe final) installment of Holy Wars.

I point to the 9/11/06 issue of the New Yorker and the piece by Lawrence Wright titled THE MASTER PLAN. IMO an excellent piece of journalism albeit quite lengthy. If you get a chance I highly recommend it, not solely for the fact of the reporting on the radical
elements of Muslim fundamentalist but also because it is what I think bushco Inc. also truly believes to be the case in their inner circle. The Holy Wars have begun!

Below is a synopsis and timetable of THE MASTER PLAN distilled from the article as a quick read, inadequate as it for the whole piece is really worth the time.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060911fa_fact3

*1.The twenty-year plan began on September 11th, with a stage called “The Awakening.” The ideologues within Al Qaeda believed that “the Islamic nation was in a state of hibernation,” because of repeated catastrophes inflicted upon Muslims by the West. By striking America—“the head of the serpent”—Al Qaeda caused the United States to “lose consciousness and act chaotically against those who attacked it. This entitled the party that hit the serpent to lead the Islamic nation.” This first stage ended in 2003, when American troops entered Baghdad.
*2.The second, “Eye-Opening” stage will last until the end of 2006, Hussein writes. Iraq will become the recruiting ground for young men eager to attack America.
*3.The third stage, “Arising and Standing Up,” will last from 2007 to 2010. Al Qaeda’s focus will be on Syria and Turkey, but it will also begin to directly confront Israel, in order to gain more credibility among the Muslim population.
*4.In the fourth stage, lasting until 2013, Al Qaeda will bring about the demise of Arab governments. “The creeping loss of the regimes’ power will lead to a steady growth in strength within Al Qaeda,” Hussein predicts. Meanwhile, attacks against the Middle East petroleum industry will continue, and America’s power will deteriorate through the constant expansion of the circle of confrontation. “By then, Al Qaeda will have completed its electronic capabilities, and it will be time to use them to launch electronic attacks to undermine the U.S. economy.” Islamists will promote the idea of using gold as the international medium of exchange, leading to the collapse of the dollar.
*5.Then an Islamic caliphate can be declared, inaugurating the fifth stage of Al Qaeda’s grand plan, which will last until 2016. “At this stage, the Western fist in the Arab region will loosen, and Israel will not be able to carry out preëmptive or precautionary strikes,” Hussein writes. “The international balance will change.” Al Qaeda and the Islamist movement will attract powerful new economic allies, such as China, and Europe will fall into disunity.
*6.The sixth phase will be a period of “total confrontation.” The now established caliphate will form an Islamic Army and will instigate a worldwide fight between the “believers” and the “non-believers.” Hussein proclaims, “The world will realize the meaning of real terrorism.” By 2020, “definitive victory” will have been achieved. Victory, according to the Al Qaeda ideologues, means that “falsehood will come to an end. . . . The Islamic state will lead the human race once again to the shore of safety and the oasis of happiness.”

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1. when Al Quaeda and the rest of them find out that Mr Cheney's funding them

then there will be a kind of turn around