"...Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida is bloodied and "nearing its end," but he warned the next generation of militants could keep special operations fighting for a decade to come..."

The top commander of U.S. Special Operations Forces, Navy SEAL Adm. Eric T. Olson said that, but somehow he missed the overall picture and has no idea what the ideology is that drives these new "Al-Qaeda 2.0" jihadists.  Nowhere in the article is there any hint that Adm. Olson knows about Islamic doctrine, sharia law, what the Qur'an says and how Islam views the world.  I am sure he has not read the Qur'an, but if he has it was through a filter, probably through the interpretation of a military imam.  It is depressing to see our military commanders be so clueless on the enemy at our doors. 

From AP/Yahoo July 28 by Kimberly Dozier

Spec ops chief warns of al-Qaida 2.0

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — The top commander of U.S. special operations forces said Wednesday that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida is bloodied and "nearing its end," but he warned the next generation of militants could keep special operations fighting for a decade to come.
 
Navy SEAL Adm. Eric T. Olson described the killing of bin Laden by a special operations raid on May 2 as a near-killing blow for what he called "al-Qaida 1.0," as created by bin Laden and led from his hideout in Pakistan.
 
Olson said the group had already lost steam because of the revolts of the Arab Spring, which proved the Muslim world did not need al-Qaida to bring down governments, from Tunisia to Egypt.
 
"I think the death of bin Laden was an uppercut to the jaw," Olson told a packed crowd, opening the Aspen Security Forum. "It just knocked them on their heels."
 
Olson echoed other administration officials who are predicting al-Qaida's demise if a few more key leaders can be eliminated.
 
But the four-star admiral warned of the fight to come against what he called al-Qaida 2.0, with new leaders like American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, who Olson said understands America better than Americans understand him.
 
"It will morph, it will disperse," he said of the movement. "It will become in some ways more westernized, (with) dual passport holders" and "fewer cave dwellers," he said.
 
Olson said others like al-Awlaki will probably refine their message to appeal to a wider audience, and seek ungoverned spaces to operate from, where they can smuggle in weapons and train their followers. He described how current offshoots like al-Awlaki's al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen are cooperating with militants in Somalia, describing what he called an "invisible bridge" between the two.
 
Nor did the admiral write off bin Laden's successor, Ayman al-Zawahri. He said al-Zawahri had not yet put his stamp on the original organization, so U.S. counterterrorist forces do not yet know what kind of threat his leadership will present.
 
Olson agreed with the White House's newly announced policy to strike terrorists through focused action rather than full-scale invasion, preferably by training and working with the host country's forces. He cautioned against thinking raids would solve all U.S. foreign policy problems.
 

"This idea of being able to wait over the horizon and spring over and chop off heads doesn't really work," he said, describing the "yin and yang" of special operations as including capture-and-kill raids as well as long-term engagement with host countries' militaries. The latter involves U.S. troops "developing long-term relationships, learning languages, meeting people, studying histories, learning black markets."

 

I suggest adding "reading the Qur'an" and studying the Pact of Umar and the Battle at Kaybar" as basic reading.

 

"If you don't know that, you won't be an effective counterterrorism force," Olson said.

 

Really Adm?  Tell us what you do know, OK?

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