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The Jawa Report: al-Qaeda Supporting Troll Gets a Bite

All the liberal blogs are pointing to this story about some Jihadi Moron on al-Hesbah speculating that al-Qaeda will attack to help John McCain get elected. They must have forgotten Rusty's rule, Online terrorists are for the most part morons.

Via WAPO: "It will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaeda," said the posting, attributed to Muhammad Haafid, a longtime contributor to the password-protected site. "Al-Qaeda then will succeed in exhausting America."

the problem with that is why would al-Qaeda attack us now? What al-Qaeda wants is for the US to stop fighting, for us to give up and leave them to their goal of creating an Radical Wahhabist Islamic Caliphate. For al-Qaeda to succeed, the US and other nations have to stop fighting them.

But so far as al-Qaeda's strategy so far as I see it, and I've studied it a lot, an attack now is the last thing al-Qaeda would do. Why do it when what you want is being handed to you already? Why risk helping McCain fight you when you are sitting pretty? The American voter is just about to hand them a victory. They've always said America was a paper tiger. That we don't have the political will to keep up the fight.

No, al-Qaeda will wait and then trumpet Obama's election as a great vindication of their strategy. They will probably even congratulate the American people for "coming to their senses".

So far as Obama's promise to take it to them in Afghanistan, if that happens they'll just shift their focus back to Iraq, Algeria or Somalia.

You have to fight them on all the fronts and the only way they win is if we don't show up.

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