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Islam and the West

08 Sep 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com

9/11: Ten Years On

The Economist America has Made Mistakes over the Past Decade, but it cannot Afford to drop its guard against al-Qaeda.

The country’s fight back against al-Qaeda this past decade has been both relentless and, in many ways, successful. Even before its SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in May, America had eviscerated his organisation. Hundreds of its people have been captured and killed and many of its most dangerous plots thwarted. Its new second-in-command was killed just last month. That said, an Osama bin Laden conducting a posthumous review of the past decade would have cause to feel satisfied. Although he did not create the caliphate he dreamed of, one of his main declared aims was to draw America into “bleeding wars” in the Muslim lands, and in this he most cruelly succeeded. But for September 11th, America would not have invaded Afghanistan or Iraq, where some 6,000 of its soldiers, and many of its allies’ soldiers, have lost their lives in grinding wars of attrition. -- The Economist http://newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndWest_1.aspx?ArticleID=5434