'Chilling' Al Qaeda Memo Obtained

[gilliam]

**(CBS) **The U.S. has obtained a 13-page letter written by Osama bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, to Abu Musab al Zarqawi in Iraq, outlining with what one senior official calls “chilling clarity” al Qaeda’s strategy for Iraq and beyond, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin.

cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/06/eveningnews/main924484.shtml

 

[Fitz]

This is really an amazing memo that they found. It is disturbing, yet we all knew that this must be going on. It is hard to read it though.

 

[gilliam]

“It included a four-stage battle plan, beginning with the expulsion of the American military and followed by the establishment of a militant Islamic caliphate across Iraq before moving to Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. The final step would be a battle by Islamic forces against Israel.”

nytimes.com/2005/10/07/politics/07zarqawi.html