In the disagreement over whether al-Qaeda's objectives are religious or political, Mark Sedgwick describes al-Qaeda's strategy as political in the immediate term but with ultimate aims that are religious. On March 11, 2005, Al-Quds Al-Arabi published extracts from Saif al-Adel's document "Al Qaeda's Strategy to the Year 2020". Abdel Bari Atwan summarizes this strategy as comprising five stages to rid the Ummah from all forms of oppression: Provoke the United States and the West into invading a Muslim country by staging a massive attack or string of attacks on US soil that results in massive civilian casualties. Incite local resistance to occupying forces. Expand the conflict to neighboring countries and engage the US and its allies in a long war of attrition. Convert al-Qaeda into an ideology and set of operating principles that can be loosely franchised in other countries without requiring direct command and control, and via these franchises incite attacks against the US and countries allied with the US until they withdraw from the conflict, as happened with the 2004 Madrid train bombings, but which did not have the same effect with the July 7, 2005 London bombings. The US economy will finally collapse by 2020, under the strain of multiple engagements in numerous places. This will lead to a collapse in the worldwide economic system, and lead to global political instability. This will lead to a global jihad led by al-Qaeda, and a Wahhabi Caliphate will then be installed across the world.
in the disagreement over whether al-qaeda's objectives are religious or political mark sedgwick describes al-qaeda's strategy as political in the immediate term but with ultimate aims that are religious on march 11 2005 al-quds al-arabi published extracts from saif al-adel's document "al qaeda's strategy to the year 2020" abdel bari atwan summarizes this strategy as comprising five stages to rid the ummah from all forms of oppression provoke the united states and the west into invading a muslim country by staging a massive attack or string of attacks on us soil that results in massive civilian casualties incite local resistance to occupying forces expand the conflict to neighboring countries and engage the us and its allies in a long war of attrition convert al-qaeda into an ideology and set of operating principles that can be loosely franchised in other countries without requiring direct command and control and via these franchises incite attacks against the us and countries allied with the us until they withdraw from the conflict as happened with the 2004 madrid train bombings but which did not have the same effect with the july 7 2005 london bombings the us economy will finally collapse by 2020 under the strain of multiple engagements in numerous places this will lead to a collapse in the worldwide economic system and lead to global political instability this will lead to a global jihad led by al-qaeda and a wahhabi caliphate will then be installed across the world