"An Islamic Caliphate in Seven Easy Steps"

I found this on Spiegel this morning, hunted it up in English tonight, since you'd rather read the article than my attempts at translation and analysis.

Jordanian journalist Fouad Hussein, former prisonmate and near-confidante of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has done some interviewing in terrorist circles and come up with "al-Qaeda's potential strategy for the next two decades."

"What is interesting is that major attacks against the West are not even mentioned by Fouad Hussein. Terrorism here cannot be ignored -- but it seems these attacks simply supplement the larger aim of setting up an Islamic caliphate. Attacks such as those in New York, Madrid and London would in this case not be ends in themselves, but rather means to a [sic] achieve a larger purpose -- steps in a process of increasing security in the West."

Read the whole article, it's interesting.