1. “Blowback” or “Clash of Civilizations”?
Islamic Jihad
“Blowback” or “Clash of Civilizations”?

2. What are the causes of Islamic Terror?
Since September 11th 2001, there have been 107 incidents of Islamic terrorism worldwide claiming 2000 more victims

3. Why Jihad? Poverty and lack of opportunity in the Muslim World
The Presence of foreign troops in the Middle East, in particular the Holy cities
The intractable Israeli-Palestinian dispute
U.S. Foreign Policy towards Islamic states
“Blowback”
Clash of civilizations

4. How can we fight terrorism?
Eradicate Poverty
Peace in Palestine
Prevention of continued recruitment of Jihadists

5. Clash of Civilizations
Samuel P. Huntington “Clash of Civilizations” Foreign Affairs 1993
The Book appeared in 1998

6. The History of Warfare since 1648
The wars between princes and monarchs
Wars between nations and peoples
Conflicts of ideologies & the Cold War

7. Huntington’s Civilizations

8. Why Civilizations Will Clash
Divisions are basic & Real
The World is becoming smaller
Globalization separates people from local identities

9. Why Civilizations Will Clash
The current global power of western civilization
Cultural differences are less mutable
Economic regionalism is growing

10. The West Versus Islam US support for Israel
Desert Shield - Desert Storm
Initial failure to protect Bosnia
Russian destruction of Chechnya

11. The West Versus Islam Iranian Nuclear ambitions Iraq War II
Pope Benedict’s comments
The Cartoon Furor
Ethiopia/Somalia
The recent London car bombings

12. The Rise of Jihad 600 The Sunni-Shia Split
1300 Ibn Tamiyyah justifies revolt against Ottoman rulers
1700 Muhammed ibn Abd al-Wahab condemns Shiites, founds Wahabism
1916 British and French division of the Ottoman Empire
1928 Egyptian activist found “Muslim brotherhood”

13. The Rise of Jihad 1948 Founding of Israel approved by UN
1952 Col. Nasser coup in Egypt
1966 Nasser executes Sayyid Qutb and outlaws Muslim Brotherhood
1967 Israel crushes Arab armies in the Six-Day War
1973 Arab Oil embargo finances Islamic missionary campaign

14. The Rise of Jihad
1979 Islamic Revolution replaces Shah in Iran with Ayatollah Khomeini
1979 Jihad begins against Soviet occupied Afghanistan financed by US
1981 Jihadist soldiers assassinate Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for 1979 peace treaty with Israel
1985 exiled Saudi construction millionaire Osama bin Laden lay groundwork for al Qaeda in Afghanistan

15. The Rise of Jihad 1993 1st World Trade Center Bombing by Ramsi Yousef
1998 Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri issue fatwa calling on followers to kill Americans
1998 Al Qaeda bombing of embassies in Tanzania and Kenya
2000 Al Qaeda bombing of USS Cole in Yemen

16. The Rise of Jihad
2001 9/11 kills nearly 3000 in New York, at the Pentagon, and in rural Pennsylvania
2002 Car bombs linked to Jemaah Islamiya kill 202 in Bali
2003 Khalid Sheik Mohammed, mastermind of 9/11 arrested in Pakistan
2004 Madrid train bombings kill 191
2005 London bombs kill 52 commuters
2006 al-Zarqawi killed in Iraq
2006 Mumbai Train bombings, 7 bombs kill 209

17. The Rise of Jihad
2007 Qahtaniya bombings kill 800 member of Iraq’s Yazidi sect
2008 Ahmedabad bombings in India, 21 bombs kill 56
2008 Mumbai coordinated attacks kill 174 at hotel, synagogue and train station attacks
2009 Two suicide vehicles kill 155 in and around Green Zone in Baghdad.
2009 Jordanian double agent kills 9 at Camp Chapman in Afghanistan including 7 CIA agenst

18. What Can/Did We Do? Homeland Security Patriot Act Airport Security
Invade Iraq
Invade Afghanistan
Intelligence Sharing

19. Obama got Osama The GWOT is over
SEAL Team Six attack in Abbottabad May 2nd 2011 killed Osama bin Laden
Withdrawal from Iraq December 2011
Taliban don’t have international agenda
Arab Spring
Osama demonstrated the “divine mandate” of Jihad: morale will suffer

20. Obama got Osama The GWOT is not over
The threat remains viable -Ayman al Zawahiri
Al Qaeda still operates openly in FATA/Waziristan region of Pakistan
Osama’s leadership was only symbolic
Haqqani network is more dangerous to the US than Osama
LeT, Jem, JaI provide similar threat

21. The End of History