Bin Laden and Future Jihad in Europe

Here's Walid Phares' analysis of Bin Laden's latest audio message. As always Mr. Phares has a good handel on the Jihad and where it is going.
FROM NEWMEDIAJOURNAL.US:
Bin Laden and Future Jihad in Europe Terrorism
Dr. Walid Phares
December 1, 2007
What is interesting about the latest audio message of Usama Bin Laden, carried by al Jazeera, is its delayed argument. Strangely he is trying to convince the Europeans - seven years later - that they are wrong to have followed the United States into Afghanistan. Why?

In his speech - irrespective of the ritual investigative questions regarding its location, technology and other details - the central issue appears to be his growing concern with the European role in Afghanistan, and perhaps because of it, the potential growth of that role in the fight against the forces of Jihadism worldwide. As a reader of the Jihadi strategic mind, I believe that the speech writers (Bin Laden himself or his “advisors”) are looking ahead in their evaluation of future European involvement in the so-called War on Terror, and are positioning al Qaeda to “own” it. The significance of this is, as al Qaeda’s war room has showed in the past, they are skilled at anticipating trends.
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