FUTURE JIHAD – Terrorist Strategies against the West and other Democracies

by Walid Phares, Ph.D.
World Defense Review columnist

The international version of Professor Walid Phares' Future Jihad is now released. The new title is "Terrorist Strategies against the West" (Palgrave/St Martin; New York and London, December 2006). The paperback includes a long chapter on the Jihadist movement strategies around the world.

Following are adapted excerpts:

During the year Future Jihad was published in America, significant developments further proved true the conclusions of the initial book. In one single year, before and after its publication a series of declarations by the Jihadists, by international leaders and by intellectuals on all sides of the conflict, signaled that the "War on Terrorism" was after all an all-out confrontation between a worldwide Web of Islamist movements and regimes on the one hand and a dispersed international community, some of which was engaged, while parts of it weren't in this world war, on the other hand.

My first objective was to explain basic facts to the international public community: That there was an ideological current out there, aiming at world domination, which he defined as "Jihadism." The latter comes from two trees, one is Salafi the other is Khomeinist. The Salafists, formed in Sunni environment, are inspired by middle ages doctrinaires and have emerged in modern times as Wahabis, Muslim Brotherhoods, Takfiris, Deobandis, Tablighi and others. They want the reestablishment of a modern day Caliphate. They feel they are the heirs of 14 centuries of history and reject modern international law. The Khumeinists are the Jihadists who emerged in the Shiia community. They aim at establishing an Imamate to reunify all Muslims under their guidance in pursuit of Jihad.

The books' second objective was to show how Jihadists view the world, its modern history, its international relations, its wars, the various civilizations and how they adapt their strategies to modernity. Chapters three, seven, eight and nine were dedicated to show the readers how the Jihadists viewed the 20th century, WWII, the cold war, the choices they made and the different options they developed as Salafists, Wahabis, Khumeinists, regarding the Soviets, Israel, the West, and the Muslim regions. The bottom line was to show that there were no sheer emotional and simplistic reactions to crisis, but rather focused, integrated, and complex policies and strategic objectives. This assertion goes against the dominant theories of the past, which never went away yet, that in essence Islamist attitudes are created by Western policies. Future Jihad precisely argues otherwise: Jihadi ideologies are sui generis. They were developed before current international relations were formalized in laws, survived the latter and have projected their aims regardless of Western or non-Western policies. Certainly, diplomatic, economic and military acts by greater and small powers impact the evolution, decisions and plans of the Islamists. Policies affect other policies, but Jihadism and its various trees and branches, is a being of its own. It relates to the evolution of political Islam historically and can only be explained from inside out.

The third objective of the book was to describe the Jihadi war against the Soviet Union during the Cold War and against the United States and some of its allies after the cold war, leading to 9/11 and beyond.

The final objective in producing Future Jihad was an attempt to analyze the specific conflict between al Qaeda and the United States. In chapter twelve I examined the root causes of America ‘s failure showing that the breaches were not simple security flaws but rather systemic malfunctioning at the national security level. In Chapter thirteen, I suggested a model of what could have been a historically successful Jihadist offensive worldwide and its consequences in the US had a 9/11 of a greater dimension occurred years later instead.

The fifth objective was to offer modest guidelines and prescriptions to face off with the growing dangers of Salafi and Khomeinist ideologically based terrorism. While geopolitical threats to regional and world peace come from classical radical regimes, such as Tehran's and to a certain extent Damascus' and Khartoum's, another type of threats is represented by the capacity of Jihadi networks to transform moderate or stable Muslim Governments into radical ones, with a full use of their resources.

Finally I made another set of recommendations to educate the public, the Government's agencies and the media as to the mind, visions, strategies and if possible the tactics of the Jihadists. The prescription aimed at developing a "global resistance" against Jihad-Terrorism, both within the Arab Muslim world and within the international community. I am glad to announce that the paperback Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West is out in English and Spanish. Versions in other languages are expected in the near future.

The Jihadi counteroffensive

During 2005-2006, I had several important opportunities to address and interact with policy, legislative, media, community decision makers, experts and concerned citizens across the US and Europe, including in Paris, London, Brussels, Vienna, and Lisbon. In America, my book tour allowed me to discuss Future Jihad in Washington, New York, New Jersey, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami and on many campuses nationwide. Since its launching I have received many emails and messages from bright readers of the book as well as viewers of and listeners to talk shows. These inputs were sociologically critical for the assessment of the public understanding of the bigger picture. I was also able to conduct briefings at the European Parliament, the US Congress, the United Nations Security Council, Interpol and other international bodies. In addition, my participation in Arab media forums including on al Jazeera, al Hurra, al Arabiya and other outlets provided me the opportunity to interact with ideologues, academics and activists from all sides, and particularly of relevance the self declared Jihadi camp. In addition, my interactions with democracy groups and intellectuals from the Arab and Muslim world on the one hand, and frequent visits to and learning process from the various Islamists -particularly Jihadists- chat rooms online, helped my analysis of Future Jihad refines itself and develop ballistics of knowledge in the clashing strategies of the so-called War on Terrorism. My main post-book conclusion is as follow: The Jihadists are -Salafists and Khumeinists alike- on a worldwide counter offensive with their perceived enemies and they are planning on widening it, rationalize it, and render it irreversible. Here are the various sketches from present situations into future trends:

In the paperback version of 2006 I discussed the specific issue of Bin Laden and al Qaeda and their importance in the global Jihadi movement; their centrality but also their relativity as well. One concept I noted particularly the so-called Hudna (truce) proposed several times by the group, particularly to Europe. The Hudna is indicative of Jihadi geopolitics, often misunderstood in the West. Another concept I revisited is the worldwide web of Jihadism, stressing its ideological but also its political nature. While loose and full of fragments, I believe it has a centrality that escapes the classical perception of Western defense parameters.

Europe's Jihads

Following my several field trips to Europe and monitoring of Jihadi deployments on the continent I analyzed the global strategies of the Salafists in specific zones: the United Kingdom; Western European battlefields: Belgium, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany in addition to the southern European zone including Spain and Italy; finally France (which I consider as one zone by itself). Two other European zones are Eastern Europe and the Balkans with different outlooks and geopolitical Jihadi realities. The European Jihads are ahead of their cross Atlantic parallels. The ideological mobilization that surfaced during the so called "Cartoons Jihad" is an important indicator of the wide spread of Wahabi and Salafi teachings across the continent.

The world's battlefields

Russia's battlefields with the Salafists have reached a national security level of threat, both from Chechnya and through its southern borders with Central Asia . The Asian battlefields have grown geometrically in intensity and scope: Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Malaysia to the East; Bengla Desh, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the West; and Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the center. Asian Jihad is gradually including a Chinese Jihad in the old Muslim Sin Kiang and spills over to Australia south bound and to the Greater Middle East West bound. Aussie is facing two threats: One regional to its north, linked to the success and advance of Salafi forces in Indonesia and the Philippines, and the other through domestic infiltration by radical Islamists, similar to the global patterns of penetration in the West. In Africa, the Jihadi battlefields are spreading rapidly from Somalia to Darfur all the way to the sub-Saharan countries of Chad, Mauritania, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.

The Greater Middle East

But it is in the Greater Middle East, from Morocco to Iran, where the central battlefields will be decisive. Iraq ‘s Sunni triangle – contrary to the mediatized wisdom in the West – is only the tip of the Jihadi iceberg. Al Qaeda in Iraq has "chosen" the battlefield to pin down US central forces while Salafist and Khomeinist forces are on the offensive in other spots. Had America not chosen Iraq as a ground for confrontation, the Jihadists would have chosen another terrain for the clash. It is ironic that mainstream scholarship in the West is blind to this reality. In the Arabian Peninsula, al Qaeda and its wider web of Wahabis patiently await their moment for the ultimate leap. In North Africa, the combat Salafists are omnipresent, and from there on, dispatch their cells into Europe . In Egypt and among Palestinians, the Brotherhoods and Hamas have created strongholds; and in Turkey the soft Islamists are taking all the time needed to deliver their battle of ideas against the seculars. In addition to the Salafi surge, the Iranian-led axis of Jihadism from Tehran to southern Lebanon, with the Syrian regime in the center wages its own campaign. Ahmedinijad's regional offensive – with nuclear ambitions and terrorism tools – is only the most recent expression of the older Khamanei's regime. The "axis" has mounted a separate state-sponsored Jihad: Hamas and PIJ in Palestine, HizbAllah in Lebanon, Muqtada al Sadr in Iraq and cells around the Middle East and within the West. The question of Terrorism in the Greater Middle East isn't confined to the Arab-Israeli conflict anymore. The latter has become a consequence of the region's Jihadism, not the other way around.

Latin American Ambitions of the Jihadists

From Venezuela under Chavez's populist power and from Bolivia's new "Castrist" leadership the Jihadist bases are growing to meet the tri-border emerging "Emirate" of the tips of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. Al Qaeda and HizbAllah are racing to outnumber the cells of each other organizations. From the south of the Americas, the Jihadi thrust will be reaching the US mainly through the Mexican border and deep into the heart of the country.

Canada's Jihadists

With the arrest of cells during the summer of 2006 in Toronto, Canada has entered the Global sphere of Jihadi penetration. Modeled after their American counterparts, the Canadian Jihadists are as determined and prepared to strike and enflame the country. In fact North America seems to have become a one continental hub of operations. Cells form on both sides of the border and interact with each other. For example the arrest of the Georgia cell last year showed a Montreal connection. The same type of radical literature is found in American and Canadian cities, and interestingly enough the Islamist radical activism operates on a "North American" level.

America's Jihad mutates

As I argued in the first edition of Future Jihad (Terrorist Strategies against America ), the Mohammed Atta type of Terrorists is not in the majority anymore. Today, 2006-2007, the new Jihadists are mostly US-born, speak the language well, are educated and operates within the system. And more importantly, they benefit from a militant political shield, which protect them as they grow ideologically and organizationally. In the past few months more evidence is emerging on the deep influence the pro-Jihadist groups have developed inside the country. The wall protecting the spread of the Wahabi-Salafi, and even Khomeinist ideologies in America has become close to be legal, after it has thickened politically. The mutation of Jihadism inside the US is the single most important challenge the country will face in this decade and maybe beyond. The incapacitation of the US Government in its counter Jihadist efforts has become the central breach in national security.

The War of Ideas: The Future of the War on Terror

Hence, it has also become clear that whoever would be able to shape the minds of Americans as to identify the enemy will win the War on Terror. And whoever can show the US public or bar it from seeing the reality of the Jihadi wars against democracies will make or break the War on Terror and its length.

To obtain a signed copy of Future Jihad (hard copy and paperback) go to www.futurejihad.com or www.walidphares.com. For media review copies contact info@futurejihad.com.

— Dr Walid Phares is a senior fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) in Washington, D.C., and director of the Future Terrorism Project of the FDD. He is a visiting fellow with the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels. His most recent book is Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West.

Dr Phares holds degrees in law and political science from Saint Joseph University and the Lebanese University in Beirut, a Masters in international law from the Universite de Lyons in France and a Ph.D. in international relations and strategic studies from the University of Miami.

He has taught and lectured at numerous universities worldwide, practiced law in Beirut , and served as publisher of Sawt el-Mashreq and Mashrek International. He has taught Middle East political issues, ethnic and religious conflict, and comparative politics at Florida Atlantic University until 2006.

Dr. Phares has written seven books on the Middle East and published hundreds of articles in newspapers and scholarly publications such as Global Affairs, Middle East Quarterly, the Journal of South Asian and Middle East Studies and the Journal of International Security. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, BBC, al Jazeera, al Hurra, as well as on radio broadcasts.

Aside from serving on the boards of several national and international think tanks and human rights associations, Dr. Phares has testified before the US Senate Subcommittees on the Middle East and South East Asia, the House Committees on International Relations and Homeland Security and regularly conducts congressional and State Department briefings, and he was the author of the memo that introduced UNSCR 1559 in 2004.

Visit Dr. Phares on the web at walidphares.com and defenddemocracy.org.

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Allah alim

I am interested in who these "evil jihadists" are. What country do they govern?, or even their address? (ie 123 Cave, Afghanistan, perhaps), also, their power structure?, their organization structure?, their, communication?, their clandestine operations and organizations, their powerful lobby organizations?, their controlled companies, the nature of their business? their organs, their media outlets?, their weapons arsenal?, their financial power?, their OFFICIAL stated goals?

These are questions that are impossible to answer because these "jihadists" are fictional characters, "boogy-men" created by the zionists for the delusional right wing morons to feed on....designed to create fear, hatred and a focal mythical "enemy".

"Jihadists" as a state or even an organization DOES NOT EXIST.... unlike the zionists.

The problem is, that for these mythical "evil jihadists" to be really a threat the zionists yell and scream about, .... is that they need to be powerful, ie, they need a functional state, with all the resources required to challenge the west.

Despite the "hoop-la" these same right wing nuts (Cheney, Rumsfeld, the Neo-cons back then) made over the Soviet Union, it turned out, clearly, the Soviets, with their power, and ORGANIZATION, was never a threat to the west and USA in particular......

I can make the argument that the ZIONISTs are the real conspirators on the earth, via deception and subversion of swathes of countries on the earth, because every category I presented, to identify the enemy and its CAPABILITIES are present in the ZIONISTs and NONE are present in the mythical "islamist/jihadists" who want to "rule the world" out of caves in Afghanistan, the destroyed towns of Iraq and the open ghettos of Gaza... via their "previously unknown Al-Qaeda group websites...."

The zionists open and stated goals are as follows:

1. To have a GREATER state of israel that extends form the "Nile to the Eurphrates", which includes parts or the entire countries of:
a) palestine
b Syria
c) Lebanon
d) western Iraq
e) parts of northern Saudi Arabia
f) parts of southern Turkey
g) parts of various countries of eastern Africa.

and.... THAT THEY WILL RULE THE WORLD FROM JERUSALEM!

They also desire to control the regions oil and they are preparing the pipeline project from Iraq to the port city of Haifa.

Sounds like the zionists want to take over the world, and if palestine is any indications of what they plan for the "goys" we are in deep trouble less they are defeated and their plans destroyed.

For girl who claims to be Islamic, you seem clueless as to a term most dearly associated with Islam. I ponder why pretender?

To real believers and the Faithful there is but only one meaning to the word Jihad which is essential the spiritual, psychological and physical effort exerted by Muslims to be closer to God and thus achieve a just and harmonious society. Jihad literally means "striving" or "struggle" and is shorthand for Jihad fi Sabeel Allah (struggle for God's cause).

Now to the extremist adulteress of Islam who have circumvented the words of Mohammad in adulterations of the word to fit a extremists radicalism, the word has been transposed from a struggle to be closer to god, to a armed struggled in the name of god. Wholly deviant and blasphemous as to the intent and meaning of what was written to be the intent of Jihad. I hope that enlightens your ignorance of the religion at least so you can intelligently speak about that which you obvious have little to no knowledge of.

Muslim scholars explained there are five kinds of jihad fi sabilillah (struggle in the cause of God):

· Jihad of the heart/soul (jihad bin nafs/qalb) is an inner struggle of good against evil in the mind, through concepts such as tawhid.

· Jihad by the tongue (jihad bil lisan) is a struggle of good against evil waged by writing and speech, such as in the form of dawah (proselytizing), Khutbas (sermons), et al. It is one weapon in the jihadi arsenal.

· Jihad by the pen and knowledge (jihad bil qalam/ilm) is a struggle for good against evil through scholarly study of Islam, ijtihad (legal reasoning), and through sciences (such as medical sciences).

· Jihad by the hand (jihad bil yad) refers to a struggle of good against evil waged by actions or with one's wealth, such as going on the Hajj pilgrimage (seen as the best jihad for women), taking care of elderly parents, providing funding for jihad, political activity for furthering the cause of Islam, stopping evil by force, espionage, and the penetration of Western universities by salafi Islamic ideology, in numerous Middle East Studies departments funded by Saudi Arabia.

· Jihad by the sword (jihad bis saif) refers to qital fi sabilillah (armed fighting in the way of God, or holy war), the most common usage by Salafi Muslims and offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood.



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You perhaps are a Anasi Gawwad, No?



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What do you know about salafis and how they perform jihad? Did you answer my questions? No, do you have anything intelligent to say? no.... stop wasting bandwidth you pathetic moron.
Jihad in any form does not include terrorism, ie, killing civilians (ie women and children) and or destroying one's property..... unlike the zionist definition of jihad.

Take a look at what USrael did to iraq you satanic fool.

I am responding to the lunatic right wing context of "jihadists" who are a supposidly a bunch of terrorists who are a grave threat to USA, which I have proven to be fictional characters created in sick minds to forward the zionist agenda.

Traitor,

israel has murdered tens of thousands of people in the last 40 years, USA has been at war with iraq and is responsible for an GENOCIDE.... over 600,000 have been killed in iraq alone....is that better or worse than jihad?

I think its better because it means the west is winning. MARK

Thanks for exposing who you really are dixon.... no need now to use your usual lies and deception to justify your hatred and contempt for the middle east and the greater islamic world.

Btw... you loser are losing but you do not perceive it (says the Holy Qur'an by general meaning).

What do you think will happen in the hereafter for you dixon? Do you think your future will be good over there?
You morons live on this earth as if you will never die, trample all over others, look down on others, degrade others, spread lies, hatred.....what will be the result of this in your opinion... do you think you will go to heaven?

traitor... you are a liar!

Hi Trader
Thanks for the article. I shall buy the man's book.

Our local ignorant jihadists are truly in a tizzy aren't they?
Bean

Im an atheist ya ignorant towel head. I believe in decomposition after death. And I am more concerned with our future over HERE. MARK

You have no future "here".... everyone dies, and worse, after 50 years old, you can expect to be compromised heath wise and you will be dead by 70-80 yrs.

You people are the true losers, because you rebel against your Creator, who said clearly that it is easier for Him to assemble your remains then to create you in the first place!

That would be 24-34 years of "future" for me. And an unlimited future for Americans, "OUR" future.
MARK

USA will not have a future if it continues to support terrorist states like israel and attacks defenceless civilians in 3rd world muslim countries... The 'death throws" Cheney talks about is for yourself as these are tell tale signs of the end of an empire, hijacked by a small band of racist, genocial ashkeNAzi jews (zionists) and their useful idiot amercian christian zionists.

Would seem that our power and influence is only increasing. While this dreamed of caliphate of yours seems relegated to an oddity of history where it belongs. MARK

Power increasing?

USA is at the mercy of China economically, Israel was defeated by Hezbullah over the summer, and most of the USA's "mighty" military is stuck in a mess in Iraq, where they have become export torturers, murderers and rapists of 12 year old girls (they learned this from the israeli-IDF terrorists that work with them) where the resistance is gaining strength and power. USA forces are all but pin down in Anbar province.....

increasing.....

China???? We are dependent on them to manufacture cheap goods, but there are plenty of ###### hole countries where that can be done. They are at the mercy of the continuation of access to our markets, the largest in the world. They are at the mercy of the value of the dollar because they hold so much debt. Our growth rate continues to exceed that of all most all the developed world.
"Israel was defeated by Hezbullah"??? I dont know, I look at the photos of entire sections of beruit turned to rubble, and compare them to all the craters in the open desert, left by Hezbollah rockets in Israel, and cant help but laugh at the towel heads version of victory. And then there is the 15,000 UN troops occupying the south of Lebanon with a UN mandate to disarm Hezbollah.
And in Iraq



And regarding Israel, secret meetings with Syria to negotiate an agreement have taken place which includes



MARK

USA trades Chinese goods for a worthless pc of paper called the dollar. Infact, there is no trade, USA just provides IOU's to China in the form of the worthless paper. USA doesn't provide any products or services to China. The only thing keeping the worthless fiat dollar up is that world oil is traded with it..... So if petro dollars get converted to something else, you cannot buy chicklets in Mexico city with the dollar.

Comitting war crimes and defeating Hizbullah are different matters. If you think killing innocent people, by the usual israeli bombing of urban, densely populated areas has defeated hizbullah, you mind is very twisted and sick.

Soooo we give them worthless paper and they give us valuable goods, which places us at their mercy??? I dont follow. Like I said, there are plenty of shiite hole countries that can make cheap goods in exchange for worthless paper.
And if the value of the dollar drops, we pay back the debt to China with even more worthless dollars. Borrow them when they have value and pay them back when they have less value, its all good. And American goods become relatively cheap, compared to more expensive imports to both Americans and the rest of the world. American exports go up and imports go down, a new equalibrium is re-established. Better to be a debtor than a creditor when currency loses value, Thats why the Chinese work so hard to keep it high.



I never said Hezbollah was defeated. You claimed "Israel was defeated by Hezbullah". I was merely laughing at the towel heads version of a defeat of their enemy. Especially when you consider that Israel has a lot of holes in the dirt compared to both Lebanon and Hezbollah suffering so much destruction. Kind of like bragging about the cuts in the hands of the guy that just beat the shiite out of you. Israel left Lebanon because they had no intent of staying. Hebollah didnt invite 15,000 UN troops, they were imposed upon them. MARK

This situation with China is that the creditors (China, Japan, etc) will take as collateral, USA literally.ie, you will see that USA property will be owned by them.... once the dollar collapses, it will cause a chain reaction. USA will lose control over their economy, people will have to settle for much lower standard of living, people will not have health care (this exists today), people will lose their savings, people will be bankrupt.

If israel knew it was winning, it would have progressed to Syria and somehow open a new front to draw their dumb american slaves...... Terrorist Israel would have lost most of their tank divisions if they continued...

As a muslim you wouldnt be expected to understand the kufr financial system. The dollars they hold, they can only sell them to someone else or purchase goods sold for dollars. The notes they hold can only be sold to someone else, or held to maturity. The only collateral involved is the full faith and credit of the US, or in other words there is no collateral involved. And a drop in the value of the dollar would benefit the American economy, reducing the trade imbalance.
And your imagined Israeli march to Syria has no connection with reality. MARK

That's hillarious.... the US dollar has dropped 50% in value against most currencies since 2001 and what happened to the trade deficit!?

I find it funny that moronic economic theories of the retarded right wing lunatic bunch are so delusional that they think a devalued dollar will solve the massive issue at hand! That fact that the biggest transfer of capital and manufacturing abilities have been moved OUT of a single country..... in human history.

Israel got a nice bloody nose in Lebanon... however, most of the israeli commanders and genocidal gov't officials (Olmert) need to go to that Hague war crimes tribunal, and sit beside the genocidal serbian maniacs.....

Euro
2001-01-01 0.9376
2006-12-01 1.3205
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/EXUSEU.txt

Whats that, about a 30% drop. More importantly the Chinese Yuan/dollar exchange rate was fixed from 2001-2005, and the dollar value has only dropped slightly since then as it is still essentially fixed by the Chinese government. And the increase in oil prices has offset any gains with the trade deficit.



You are the moron simultaneously arguing that the dollar is "worthless" and that its value has "dropped 50%"
What "massive issue at hand"? The trade imbalance? that is a direct result of our artificially high value of the dollar. "Solved"?? I said it reduces the trade imbalance.



?????? The demand for dollars by overseas investors, anxiuos to invest in capital in the US is another factor that keeps the value high.
Manufacturing is no more a desireable industry than any other industry. Our growth in GDP continues to exceed that of Canada and the European Union.



I thought you said Israel was defeated. "bloody nose"?? Hezbollah and Lebanon got a bloody nose, broken jaw and fractured skull. Not to mention 15,000 UN troops camped out in their back yard to control the Islamic savages. MARK

You change the subject as usual... (notice I did not say that 50% decline was against the Euro...dummy) whether its 30 or 50%, the devalued dollar did nothing for the trade imbalance, things are getting worse. USA has lost its manufacturing base. USA will have burger flippers and CEOs that make 200 million dollars..... thanks to morons like you who think everything under the bizarro bush world is nice.

Next we have the zionists..... USA serves the savage zionist state. I have proven this and you continue to dance their yiddish tune. 15,000 UN troops are not concerned about "islamics"... as they witnessed last summer, israel targets THEM.

Also, on the subject of zionists, why were zionist agents sent to 'document the event' of 9/11, when that statement clearly indicates that they had (at minimum) foreknowledge of this attack, that would benefit israel, so that american dummies could attack israel's enemy (the entire islamic world)??

The dollar, euro and yuan make up over half of the worlds economy. What currency were you refering to?
Worse??? Our economy outperformed yours in Canada and Europe in 2001, and we still outpreform them in 2006. 2001 we had a growth rate of .8%, 2006 we had a growh rate of 3.4%. Canada had a growth rate of ONLY 2.8%, even with the inflated prices of oil. Worse than what? Some imagined, unattained standard?

MARK