From TheAustralian;
Al Queda to establish an Islamic State in Iraq
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The name 'Al Queda' is being used for everything and anything now; by both fundamentalists, malcontents and the western media and governments. It will end up becoming a verb, rather than a brand, like xerox did from overuse.
From the article:
A RADICAL plan by al-Qa'ida to take over the Sunni heartland of Iraq and turn it into a militant Islamic state once American troops have withdrawn is causing alarm among US intelligence officials. ... According to an analysis compiled by US intelligence agencies, the Islamic State has ambitions to create a terrorist enclave in the Iraqi provinces of Baghdad, Anbar, Diyala, Salah al-Din, Nineveh and parts of Babil.Pretty brainless if true. Hezbollah has all the power and trappings of a state without the overhead of actually having to be a nation-state. It is autonomous in southern Lebanon and can fight a neighbouring nation-state to a stalemate if it wants to. There is no need to establish an Islamic state in order to control the politics. Nation-states are too expensive and annoying to bother about. I doubt 'Al Queda' is planning this, the smart ones will do a Hezbollah, the dumb ones will just add 'scare' lead-ins for the western presses.
