DEBKA: Anti-American Ferment Will Not Abate

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror and intelligence sources draw seven conclusions from nearly a week of surging anti-American violence across the Middle East, South Asia and beyond:

1.  The anti-Islamic video film was not the cause of the upheaval only a pretext. 

2.  The outbreaks were orchestrated by a number of radical Islamic organizations ranging from the ultraconservative Salafis to Al Qaeda terrorists. They took advantage of swelling anti-US sentiment in many Arab and Muslim countries to weaken local governments which maintain ties with the United States, including the Muslim Brotherhood.

3.  It is not yet known how the mechanism coordinating operations among those Islamist extremist groups works, but it has already shown to be faster and more efficient than the American intelligence and counter-terror bodies keeping track of them. Day by day, Washington is caught unawares by fresh outbursts.

4.  After firing up Arab and some Muslim streets, this radical coalition believes its component organizations are gathering enough leverage to start pushing out the “moderate”  
Muslim Brotherhood branches brought to power by the US-backed Arab Spring in order to take their place. The anti-US ferment will therefore not abate, as Washington hopes, until they achieve their goal.

5.  The US has sent two platoons of 50 men each of specially trained Marines to protect its embassies in Libya and Yemen and may send a third to Sudan. Otherwise, the Obama administration dare not send in American troops to prop up the new Arab regimes; any visible US military intervention in those countries would only enhance the radicals’ popularity and weaken the regimes they are fighting to remove.

6.  The new Muslim Brotherhood rulers of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya face a tough strategic dilemma; Lean more heavily on American support to save their regimes, or bow to the Islamist extremists, turn their backs on America and give them a place in government.

7.  Power-sharing with radicals has already begun in some Arab countries, spelling the reversal of Obama’s policies and the goals of the “Arab Spring”

Those policies aimed naively at the removal in the name of democracy of autocratic, secular Arab rulers to make way for “moderate” Muslim Brotherhood regimes elected by the people and ready to work with the United States. This ideal was violently reduced to ashes in the second week of September 2012.

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Debka's right on every point -- but I would say that what appears to be a minor conflict between the Muslim Brotherhood and "more radical" Salafist groups is more apparent than real. All of these guys -- MB, Salafists, Al Qaeda, Hamas, and even the Shi'ite Hezbollah -- are, despite their separate names, essentially one: They're all dedicated to the same ultimate goal -- the establishment of a worldwide caliphate faithful to every detail of Shariah law. In the end -- and, I predict, quite quickly -- they will set aside minor differences and present a solidly united front against the West. The jihad is on the march -- and it will not (cannot) be stopped by servile aplogies or appeasing actions. These people smell blood in the water. We are in for a long and brutal struggle -- unless we choose to surrender and turn ourselves and our children over to a life of dhimmitude. The choice has never been clearer.