PER THE 9/11 TERRORIST MASTERMIND: AMERICANS WILL LOSE THE WAR BY QUITTING THE FIGHT

…The 9/11 attack mastermind: Khalid Sheik Mohammed

 

America's leaders are saying that Americans are too weary and want to end the war.

 

You know, over the past 8 years we have heard American leaders telling us that we Americans are weary of war and need to focus on our nation building at home.

 

But you may also not be aware that after our enhanced torture interrogation was discontinued, some of the captured al Qaeda leaders such as the 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) and others have actually become helpful in leading the CIA to capture other terrorists.

 

In addition, those captured terrorists also predicted that the American people would eventually be weary of war and would be asking their leaders to stop fighting and come home.  KSM has said that this is the way the Muslim extremists will eventually win the fight against their opposition.

 

James E. Mitchell of the CIA has now written a book, “Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying To Destroy America.”  In his book he describes his interrogations of terrorists like KSM and what they are saying about their war against the Western infidels.

 

The most amazing part of the book is what KSM told Mitchell about what inspired al-Qaeda to attack the United States in the first place, and the response they had expected from the US.  

 

KSM said that the Western argument that al-Qaeda wanted to draw the US into a quagmire in Afghanistan, and that now the Islamic State wants to do the same in Iraq and Syria, KSM said that concept is totally wrong. 

 

KSM instead says that al-Qaeda had totally expected the United States to respond to 9/11 as we had to the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut.  According to KSM, the United States from al Qaeda’s point of view, “turned tail and ran”.

 

 

He said they thought the US would treat 9/11 as a law enforcement matter, just as we had the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the USS Cole in Yemen.  They expected that we would arrest some operatives and fire a few missiles into some of their staged, empty tents, but otherwise we would leave them free to plan the next attack.

 

He told Mr. Mitchell, “How was I supposed to know that a cowboy President George W. Bush would announce he wanted us all dead or captured alive and then invade Afghanistan to hunt us down?’” Mitchell writes. “KSM explained that if the United States had treated 9/11 like a law enforcement matter, KSM would have had time to launch a second wave of attacks.” He was not able to do so because al-Qaeda was stunned by the ferocity and swiftness of George W. Bush’s fierce response.”

 

But KSM has said something else that has become prophetic. He told Mitchell, “We will eventually win because Americans don’t realize . . . we do not need to defeat you militarily; we only need to fight long enough for you to defeat yourself by quitting the fight.”

 

KSM explained that large-scale attacks such as 9/11 were “nice, but not necessary” and that a series of “low-tech attacks could bring down America the same way some disease-infected fleas can fell an elephant.” He said, “The brothers would relentlessly continue their attacks and the American people would eventually become so tired, so frightened, and so weary of war that they would just want to end it all.”

 

“Eventually,” KSM said, “America will expose her neck for us to slaughter.”

 

KSM may be right in that, for the past eight years, our leaders have told us that we are weary of war.  According to KSM, we have been defeating ourselves by quitting just as al Qaeda has predicted.

 

The world had heard almost nothing from KSM for the past 15 years since the 9/11 attacks.  However, Mr. Mitchell did spent thousands of hours with KSM and other captured al-Qaeda leaders. For the first time, Mitchell’s book shares what he says KSM and other former terrorists have told him.

 

KSM has described for Mitchell, many of his unconsummated ideas for future terrorist attacks.  But Mitchell does not revealed the terrifying details of those ideas for fear they might actually be implemented in the US. “If we ever allow him [KSM] to communicate unmonitored with the outside world,” Mitchell writes, “he could easily spread his deviously simple but potentially deadly ideas.”

The point from KSM seems to be that no matter what the Western powers do in the years going forward, the extreme Muslims will eventually win the war.  And according to KSM, “America may not be in a religious war with him, but he and other true Muslims are in a religious war with America” and “he and his brothers will not stop until the entire world lives under Sharia law.”

 

A frightening thought that bears noting and remembering.

 

Copyright G.Ater  2016