Michel's Commentary
by Michel Dresser
TOMORROW’S ENEMIES
12/23/2001 888WebToday Michel Dresser
Khaled Abul-Dahab and Ali Mohammed were both sentenced to jail in 1998. Abul is doing time in Egypt for attempting to overthrow the Egyptian government. Ali, already sentenced in the United States for other terrorist activities, is now being sentenced in New York for his complicity in the African embassy bombings.
The Egyptian government is helping our government to prosecute Ali Mohammed. It has furnished documents to the prosecution that were used in Egypt to put away his pal Abul. The two men have been connected for years through the organization known as the Egyptian Jihad.
Ali was the first to come to the USA from Egypt. He became a citizen and joined the US Army in 1986. He was assigned to the Special Warfare Center at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. We paid for his education into terrorism, through our tax dollars! We supported him while he was in the military as he gained valuable knowledge in becoming a terrorist against the very nation he pledged his allegiance to!
His friend, Abul, also from Egypt, joined Ali in the USA right around this time; and the two of them worked on various Egyptian Jihad projects. These activities brought them into contact with one Osama bin Laden, a young Saudi who had just founded a terrorist organization known as Al Qaida.
The story of Ali and Abul has a number of interesting things to tell us: First, that Muslim terrorists, like the Communist conspirators of the Cold War, are very patient and persevering. Some of them had been burrowing in the bowels of our society for decades. How many haven’t surfaced yet? We don’t know. Secondly, that even friendly nations in the Muslim world produce their own anti American terrorists. Osama and his Al Qaida originated in Saudi Arabia, which claims to be the best friend we have in the entire Middle East region. Our other good friend is the government of Egypt, which is helping us prosecute Ali Mohammed.
Don’t forget that Ali’s friend is doing prison time in Egypt for trying to overthrow that government! Egypt suffers, like most countries in the region, from an unstable government. It could fall into the hands of those friendly to the Egyptian Jihad. Likewise Saudi Arabia – the Riyahd dynasty can go only so far in cracking down its own internal terrorists because of widespread popular support for their goals.
This tells us how complex the “war against terrorism” is likely to become. Our friends are taking a risk in cooperating with us in rooting out the cancer that exists there. Precisely because they are our friends, we must leave the job to them. We cannot invade them to do it ourselves, as in Afghanistan. Worst thought of all – they may not always be our friends. Their governments could fall. And …. today’s friends, can be tomorrow’s enemies.
And those are my thoughts....................
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