Subject: LONG- Interesting Insight on Islamic Goals
Date: 95-01-13 03:10:54 EST
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= =   This article was mailed to me several months ago, before the
bodyguard-L list was established, and before the latest events in
Algeria.

     Useful for those doing threat planning and monitoring world 
terrorism trends.

     Reprinted with permission and full credit.


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            Terrorism and Islam - Understated Brilliance
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YOSSEF BODANSKY  -    World Terrorism Anaylst
Freeman Center for Strategic Studies          
                              
                      


Yossef Bodansky, who is an expert on terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism was
in Houston last week for a series of high level meetings and speeches to
Jewish and Hindu audiences. He is also director of the Republican Task Force
on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare for the United States Congress.

During Bodansky's  visit, I had the unique privilege of spending three days
with him. We talked almost constantly as I probed his incisive mind on
political and strategic issues ranging from the Middle East to the Indian
sub-continent and then back to the minefields of Washington. After dropping
Bodansky off at Hobby Airport last Monday, I began to reflect on the insights
he had given me.  

Bodansky receives his information directly in its raw form from the Middle
East, where he has extensive connections. His view of the so called "peace
process" is that it is a dangerous distraction from what is rally happening
in the region. Essentially, he says repeatedly, nothing Israel does or
doesn't do affects the dynamics of the region. That dynamic is the rapid
growth of radical Islamic fundamentalism. In  countries like Egypt, Jordan,
and Syria where Israel has or seeks a peace agreement, the Islamist forces
will eventually gain control and  will surely nullify the agreements.  The
influence of Islam can be illustrated by the case of Egyptian Dictator Anwar
Sadat. Sadat was under a death sentence from the Moslem clergy for
introducing Western culture into Egypt. The death sentence was held in
abeyance by an Islamic  or edict which stated that any ruler involved in a
jihad against the "illegitimate offspring of the Great Satan" (Israel) was
forgiven other offenses. When he signed the treaty with Israel at Camp David,
then the jihad was discontinued (even if only temporarily) and the death
sentence could be carried out.

Very important for the proper understanding of relations between Israel and
the Moslem world, is the concept that Israel is hated because it represents
Western culture and decadence. The full fury of the Islamic radicals today is
directed at Israel, India (Kashmir), and Bosnia. If the current trend
continues nations soon to fall to Islamic fundamentalists are: Algeria,
Egypt, Jordan, Palestine (in formation). Next to fall will be Saudi Arabia.
As long a Syria remains loyal to Iran and appears useful to the Islamic
Alliance for the destruction of  Israel, it will be safe. Once Hafez Assad
dies (he is quite ill) and the Golan is in Syrian hands, pressure will grow
to convert Syria to an Iranian form of Islamic government.

Bodansky further explains: An event of great significance took place a couple
of years ago in Sudan. A charismatic Moslem cleric named Turabi who is the
spirtual leader of Sudan succeeded in merging the Shi'ite world vision of the
Ayatollahs of Iran to the Sunni Islamists. The significance is that he was a
Sunni Moslem while the religious leaders in Iran are Shi'ite. The Sunnis make
up 85% of the world's Moslem population, and Turabi successfully made
possible a unified Islamist movement which is now threatening the secular
regimes of North Africa and the Middle East.

Bodansky has written two books on terrorism (TARGET AMERICA, Terrorism in the
U.S Today and TERROR, The Inside Story Of The Terrorist Conspiracy in
America). We talked quite a bit about the World Trade Center bombing and the
terrorist threat in America. I was shocked to learn that terrorist cells are
located all over the United States. Some raise funds for the Islamist
movement and some just wait to be activated for a mission (terror attack).
Much has been written about the Afghan warriors (mujahideen) trained by the
CIA to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. It has been revealed that they are
deeply involved in the Islamist terrorist network in America. Bodansky
informed me that the CIA never recruited and trained the mujahideen. That is
myth. They were trained and indoctrinated by the Pakistani ISI (Inter-
Service Intelligence). The CIA supplied the weapons and money for their war
effort but was not involved in their political motivation.  The Soviet Union
is gone as is its regime in Afghanistan. Remaining are several thousand
mujahideen, trained by Pakistan to wage Jihad and hate the Great Satan (US).

Projecting into the future, Bodansky sees a grand alliance of Asian and
Islamic countries confronting the West. In this alliance, priority was
wresting Kashmir from India to open up land routes direct from Teheran to
Bejing. Next it was agreed that Israel would be destroyed to create a
contiguous land mass of Islamist states from Iran to North Africa. It is also
understood that the current Arab-Israeli "peace process" is working in the
radicals favor by weakening Israel. Once PLO Chief Yasir Arafat achieves all
that he can through negotiations, Hamas and other Islamist forces under
control of Iran will take over. Egypt will have fallen by then. The Islamists
will precipitate a war with Israel. They already have avery precise scenario
for this war. Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and Iran will launch a joint attack with
ballistic missiles armed with chemical and biological warheads,  in the first
minutes of the conflict. 

The Iranian scenario calls for simultaneous attacks on the oil resources of
the Persian Gulf so that the US will have difficulty supporting Israel.


Bernard J. Shapiro is director of the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in
Houston, Texas and is editor of its monthly magazine, THE MACCABEAN. This
article was published in the Jewish Herald-Voice)



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