“Islam will defeat al Qaeda, we won’t,”
said Peter Bergen, a scholar with the New America Foundation and noted
writer on al Qaeda.
Don’t believe him? Consider, Bergen
says, al Qaeda’s strategic errors: the bombings in Indonesia in 2002
and 2005, which killed about 222 and wounded 338; the bombings in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2003, which killed about 35 and wounded more
than 160; the hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan, in 2005, which killed
about 60 and wounded 115; and, of course, Sept. 11, which killed nearly
3,000.… more