The Watchman On The Wall

The Watchman On The Wall
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Verse 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Watchman Report Aug. 19, 2021 "Al Qaeda's Caliphate Plan Moves Forward"

 

                                   Above, Al Qaeda's Caliphate that now includes Afghanistan 

Al-Qaeda’s Learning Curve: the Fall of the Roman Empire

 Former FBI agent Ali Soufan says its goal is to unite ‘the savage regions’ like the barbarians who took down Rome

Former FBI special agent and counter-terror expert Ali Soufan says the Taliban’s shocking conquest of Kabul is giving heart to Muslim militants the world over that they can bring down the remaining U.S.-backed autocratic regimes in the region and eventually take back Jerusalem.

The Taliban’s terrorist partner Al Qaeda likens the triumph in Afghanistan  to the victory of the barbarian tribes that ate away at far flung Roman provinces until they were able to advance on the capital, which fell like a rotten plum in 410 AD.  (The Eastern Roman Empire lasted another thousand years.)

Sack of Rome by the Visigoths

From Yemen to Lebanon to the Palestinian territories of Israel, to Tehran and across North Africa, both Sunni and Iran-backed Shiite Muslim militants are congratulating the Taliban and celebrating its victory “over what they call the American occupation” of Afghanistan, Soufan said during a SpyTalk podcast interview that aired Tuesday evening.

 “The lesson to everyone is that anyone who depends on the Americans should [know] that America is going to leave…” said Soufan, author of two landmark books on the subject, Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State and The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda.

“That's a narrative that has been going on for awhile from Iran and Iraq, [with]  groups like Hashd al-Sha’bi [the Popular Mobilization Units] and Hezbollah in Lebanon,  talking about what they call the axis of ‘access of resistance.’ But now we're also hearing it from the Taliban and a lot of the other Sunni extremist organizations,” Soufan said. 

“There are three parts to Al Qaeda’s grand plan,” he explained. “It’s called the management of savagery, the management of what Rome called the savage regions, which basically got together and ultimately destroyed the Roman Empire.” Weakening the international order was “ushered in by 9/11,” the Sept. 11, 2001 airborne-terror attacks on the Word Trade Center and Pentagon. Phase two is moving into power vacuums in places like Libya and Egypt, he said, after the fall of Muammar Al-Gadaffi and Hosni Mubarak, respectively, where Al Qaeda seeks to “create alliances with tribes and different opposition groups in these areas until they depend on [them] a lot.”

“And after they depend on you a lot, you establish a state, then eventually you connect all these states together to establish the caliphate,” he added. “ISIS went from phase one to phase three. It immediately wanted to establish the caliphate. Al-Qaeda continued to operate in phase two. Now you have to look at the victory of the Taliban as part of phase two, right? So now the capital of this caliphate is Afghanistan. And they believe they will be victorious when [they take] Jerusalem

The militants have good reason to be optimistic, and not just because of the swift capitulation of the U.S.-backed regime in Kabul, he added. 

Before 9/11, the U.S. had embassies in Libya, Yemen, Syria. All gone now. What remains of the American embassy in Kabul is operating out of temporary quarters at Hamid Karzai International Airport, surrounded by the Taliban.

The Taliban victory is “way bigger than Kabul,” said Soufan, who was born in Beirut, came to America for his education and joined the FBI in 1997. “This is way bigger than, frankly, Saigon. This is a great geopolitical shift in the world. 

Hear the entire 25-minute interview here, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Taliban flag emblazoned with the Shahada

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