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Interesting bit on this morning's Morning Edition:
They interview the West Point graduate who has translated the Jihadist tract of the above title:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5545338
(streaming audio available)
An excerpt from the site blurb:
-- News from Baghdad is grim. A killing spree apparently aimed at Sunnis, and more bombings apparently aimed at Shiites. Also, Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep interviews the West Point analyst who translated The Management of Savagery, the jihadist manifesto found on the Web.
It's a Rosetta Stone of jihadist theory. Basically, it counsels jihadists to create chaos and then move in. It also suggests that Muslims read Western anthropologists' studies of Islamic cultures to see how Westerners view them.
The interview went on to describe how Jihadists target certain countries; looking for states that have weak/disfunctional governments, a heavily-armed populace, and so forth.
They pointed out Somalia, now with a fundamentalist Islamic government presence that has effectively taken over.
They interview the West Point graduate who has translated the Jihadist tract of the above title:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5545338
(streaming audio available)
An excerpt from the site blurb:
-- News from Baghdad is grim. A killing spree apparently aimed at Sunnis, and more bombings apparently aimed at Shiites. Also, Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep interviews the West Point analyst who translated The Management of Savagery, the jihadist manifesto found on the Web.
It's a Rosetta Stone of jihadist theory. Basically, it counsels jihadists to create chaos and then move in. It also suggests that Muslims read Western anthropologists' studies of Islamic cultures to see how Westerners view them.
The interview went on to describe how Jihadists target certain countries; looking for states that have weak/disfunctional governments, a heavily-armed populace, and so forth.
They pointed out Somalia, now with a fundamentalist Islamic government presence that has effectively taken over.