More than likely it was prepared for the transition of President Obama to the White House.
A - Campaigns or Waves - (click here)
For the Nation or from the Movement. The truck bomb A ‐ Campaigns or Waves – For the Nation or from the MovementThe truck bomb attack against the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, in August1998 that killed 213 individuals, including twelve American and thirty‐two local employees of the embassy, and injured 4,000 others was undertaken by Sunnijihadi terrorists hailing from Arab countries. They were encouraged and abetted by senior members of al‐Qa’ida, with extensive organizational capacity still resident in Khartoum, Sudan.between Sunni and Shi’a radicalism manifest themselves in Salafi‐jihadistterrorism’s wave‐like ebbs and flow, while Shi’a terrorism appears as campaigns in support of Iranian national objectives or the organizational objectives of Hezbollah.
The Salafi‐Jihadist variant of Sunni terrorism pursues the broad ideological aims of reactionary Sunni Islam. Its orientation is toward a stateless, Sunni Islamic caliphate stretching from Morocco to Indonesia and even the Philippines. Its methods tend to feature boundless violence and terror, while its declared approach since Usama bin Ladin’s 1998 fatwa has been to drive out the western“far enemy” from Muslim lands in order to expose and topple the corrupt “nearenemy” of Islamic state leaders from power....
The report is 75 pages in length. It is plainly obvious the terrorist groups of today post Arab Spring have been around for a very long time.
It is also apparent these groups are transitioning into political groups now that the Arab Spring has occurred.
There are also stark differences between the underlying reasons for Sunni and Shi'ite violence. The Shi'ites seek to defend their land and their right to practice their faith upon it. The Sunnis are definitely more aggressive to other faiths and ethnicities. It is the Sunnis that have yet to prove their are interested in peace and international relationships.
