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In 1954, President
Eisenhower described what he called the "domino
theory" with regard to Vietnam, saying that if we
didn't defeat Communism there, one country after another
would fall. Now "Der Spiegel" in Germany
reveals that al-Qaeda has a "domino theory" of
its own, starting with Spain.
 Tom
Williams has translated an article by Yassin Musharbash
that says that in December, 2003, in an Arabic language
handbook, al-Qaeda called for attacks against Spain in
order to force Spanish troops to withdraw from Iraq. On
page 33, the handbook says, "We believe that the
Spanish government cannot take more than two, at the
most three blows before it pulls troops out of Iraq due
to the great pressure from the population."
It describes Spain as the
"first domino," and Poland and Italy are
identified as the next two. The booklet says, "We
can describe the international system…as a spider's
web. And even though everything is connected like in a
spider's web, it takes only a light breeze to tear apart
this web…In this phase…we will attack the U.S.
forces on a daily basis, which will lead to a weakening
of their practical capabilities and their morale…We
believe…that the Iraqi resistance is capable of
driving the costs for the U.S.A. into the region that
represents the upper limit for them…namely 400 billion
US dollars."
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