One of the most important things to understand when you are fighting a war is the mindset of the enemy you are fighting. That has been one of the biggest mistakes made so far in the war on terror. Al Qaeda understands our justice system and knows how to use it against us. Al Qaeda is also not run by people we would consider rational.
Yahoo.news reported yesterday on the attack on the Danish cartoonist who drew a cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb as a hat. Kurt Westergaard.has had death threats on his life since drawing the cartoon. The would-be assassin broke into the cartoonist's house carrying a knife and an axe. The would-be assassin was a Somali man who is accused of having links with Somalia's al-Shabaab militant group as well as al Qaeda militants.
We need to understand that the members of Al Qaeda do not fit the common definition of rational people. Religion is the cloak they use as they work toward their goal of absolute power. There is no secret that the ideal of radical Islamists is a worldwide Caliphate. The bottom line here is that they intend to kill anyone who stands in the way of that goal--military or civilian--it doesn't matter.
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