" We planned this battle to bring the Great Satan and its allies into this swamp. Afghanistan is one of the most unique places in the world where a hunter has all sorts of traps to choose from. The traps might be set in deserts, rivers, mountains or even in urban centres. This is our thinking. We are sick and tired of The Great Satan's global intrigues and aim for its demise to make this world a place for peace and justice. The Great Satan is full of arrogance of its superiority and thinks of Afghans as helpless statues who can be easily hit from all four sides by America's war machine without the power or capacity to retaliate."
(Asia Times Online, Octobeer 15,2009) (Muhammad Ilyas Kashmiri, Al-Qaeda's then Military Commitee chairman and mastermind of 26/11, reportedly killed in a U.S. drone strike in June 2011)
Post 9/11, Al-Qaeda(AQ) realised that a mere intermitten interference by the West would not be enough to fan out for a clandestine phalanx, aimed at delivering 'self-convenience defined' act of retribution. The inspiration for their version of Jihad has to conceivably originate from various sources that could be streamlined into one common fundamental cause. For the 'North Atlantics' though, it was a case of religion being politically manipulated to suit the mindset of such a cult.
Nevertheless,the AQ identified, their binding glue--Islam and their fomenting tool--The causal inferences of the verses.
Connotations beyond La ilaha ilallah: Belied as monotheism at the AQ altar. AQ pronounced that there is no other God but Allah and his must be the sole supreme authority, thereby denouncing anything that is artifact in nature, including demcracy. AQ pronounced, Muslims to abjure such democratic, secular forms of government, as they are against the Islamic laws of governance, as a decree.
AQ themselves believe to be following on the predictions of Prophet Muhammad, vis-a-vis, 'The End of Time' battle, which they believe is predicted of being started from the soils of present Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia, followed by the Ghazwa-e-hind (war on India) and then marching for the final battle of acquiring Palestine (which coincides with their present agendas of liberating Afghanistan, Palestine, Chechnya, Kashmir and Xingjian from whom they call as the oppressive zionists), thereby bringing the states within the periphery of Central Asia and the present Bangladesh, together under the Islamic theocracy.
However, with Osama rotting in hell and a new operational commander who isn't a product from 'The Land of Pure', Saudi Arabia, AQ looks more disintegrated and emasculated than it ever has, but with The Americans preparing for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and Pakistan's incessant belief of using Taliban to keep Indian interest in the war torn country at bay, the insidual rise of this misanthropic ideology can never be ignored.
