From: George Sherwood 

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:44:27 -0800, Tony Williams wrote:

> John Cuccia wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:11:27 +0100, "Phil Payne"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"Dave Ings"  wrote in message
>>>news:43d14bf5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>
>>>
>>>>As far as I can tell their basic objective is to re-establish the
>>>
>>>caliphate,
>>>
>>>>but that they would probably settle for the cessation of
Western influence
>>>>in the Middle East (although the details of what that would mean are
>>>
>>>fuzzy).
>>>
>>>Foreign troops out of Saudi Arabia.
>>
>>
>> I think that's been extended to foreign troops out of "Muslim
lands"
>> and an end to Israel.
>
> Thanks all. If you just read the regular news reports it's amazing how
> AQ's actual demands are never mentioned - we're left to assume that they
> want to destroy western civilisation and send the world back to the dark
> ages.
>
> Troops out of Saudi, huh. So why not? It's about time we weaned
> ourselves off the oil addiction anyway.

What you got was so simplified to be worthless.  It is much more then US
out of Saudi Arabia.  We are pretty much there.  Once Saddam was out of
power there really wasn't any reason to keep a large number of troops in
Saudi.  Although I am sure the numbers are around what was there in the
mid-80's.  They want a Middle East made up of governments similar to the
Taliban in Afghanistan. It is countries that will support terrorism to
reach any of their goals.  Take away the freedom of their people to
practice the religion they want or even go to school if you are a woman. 
They want all countries of the world to convert to Islam for their religion
and Government.  Silly answers here. Way over simplified.

George

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