They are not being engaged on the Internet, they are winning on the WWW with USA as a "no show".
USA needs to deploy the mother of all "Social Change Engines".
al Qaeda has Weaknesses:
They still have a base of operations in Pakistan and continue to erode that government.
When USA does pull out of Iraq all the AQ assets will shift to Afghanistan.
AQ has become a criminal enterprise with kidnappings, extortion and Bank robberies, They have so much money in Iraq now they can send money back to AQ in Pakistan.
AQ is trying to create a new state in Western Iraq, in effect seceding form Iraq.
Hamas has carried out dozens of suicide attacks against Israeli.
The founder of Hamas supported AQ, but refused an alliance with them.
Hamas has been independent, and realizes it is an national case not international problem.
Hamas has rejected the sectarian violence AQ espouses,
And Hamas won the elections last year and AQ then became critics of Hamas,
stating they had sold out for wining using a political movement.
AQ has apologized for Hamas for their surrender to the political answer
to the violence in Gaza.
AQ fears a solution to the Arab-Israeli war movement, as it removes a leg of their
logic in recruiting.
The Israeli Arab problem is a basic recruiting tool and they do not want an answer, they want cannon fodder, recruits, financing not peace.
AQ may view Hamas as an enemy if they move towards peace with Israel.
Any move in that direction will bring Hamas under attack by AQ.
Iran and AQ have "convergence of interests." and inclined to co-operate, on a temporary basis. When USA leaves Iraq they will become mortal enemies.
Fighting to corrupt the soul of Islam....
al Qaeda is vulnerable, these vulneriblities need to be exploited and USA needs to be setting the Internet Paradigm, not al Qaeda. The ammunition is there, use it.
Gerald
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