H. Thomas Hayden was formerly the President and CEO of First Communications Company (FCC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a joint venture between Raytheon and a Saudi Company involved in Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Systems for the Ministry of Defense and Aviation, Saudi Arabian National Guard and Ministry of Interior. Before retiring from the US Marine Corps, assignments included Commanding Officer (CO), Headquarters and Service Bn, 1st Force Service Support Group, which deployed to the Gulf War, CO Brigade Service Support Group – 9, which deployed to Somalia and CO MAU Service Support Group – 33, which deployed to The Philippines and Korea. He was Branch Head, Headquarters Marine Corps, Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC), and Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for SO/LIC with assignments to Central America. He has participated in combat operations or contingency operations in the Republic of Vietnam, Central America, Gulf War, Somalia, and Columbia. Tom has a MBA, MA in International Relations, and a PhD candidate in Business Management. He is the author of two books and is currently writing a third: SHADOW WAR: Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict; WARFIGHTING: Maneuver Warfare in the US Marine Corps. He has published over 40 articles and has been awarded the Navy League’s Alfred Thayer Mahan award for literary achievement.
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Many may not realize it but the United States is engaged in our fourth world war. There was World War I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), World War III (The Cold War: 1950-1990), and now World War IV, which started 9-11-01 and expanded with the invasion of Iraq and is now spreading all over the world.
Some are calling it a clash of civilizations.
Due to the lack of experienced military personnel in the White House and the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, it is most likely that those who are trusted with the responsibility to lead the defense of the United States know not what they do.
There have been two colossal Intelligence failures in the last year:
1. Saddam Hussein and his alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the alleged threat to the region and vital U.S. national security interest.
2. The total lack of understanding of the Arab Muslim culture, psyche, and eagerness for martyrdom.
While I believe that Saddam would need to be removed if the U.N. would not do it, I did NOT support the half-baked concept of operation, the inept and misguided "occupation" mentality, the void created by the low number of "occupation" troops, the disbanding of the Iraqi army, and the firing of the entire governing apparatus. The invasion should have been done swiftly and with overwhelming force.
It is the second failure of ALL the U.S. intelligence agencies to fully appraise the uneducated and totally unprepared National Command Authorities on basic Arab Muslim culture. This brings on the utmost concern for the future.
Anyone with half a brain or who has ever lived in any part of a strict Muslim Arab country could explain the psyche of the macho Arab Muslim male and could have predicted the fight that is being seen throughout Iraq.
Now the Homeland Defense Agency tells us to prepare for the war that is to come to the very steps of every city hall in America.
Unfortunately, the liberal dominated news media, and the highly gullible, liberal representatives, both Democrat and Republican, would give all the rights and freedoms needed by the mujahadin jihadist to totally destroy the United States of America.
The first strike in World War IV came on 9-11-01. Now we have a written declaration of war.
"The Mujahidin's Roadmap," distributed by the Abu-Hafs al-Masri Brigades (Al Qaeda) and translated by FBIS on July 1, 2004, lists their aims in the coming stage:
1. To enlarge the circle of the struggle by distributing the operations all over the world.
2. Undermine the investor's confidence in the U.S. economy.
3. Expose the Crusader-Zionist scheme.
4. Scatter and exhaust the enemy.
After these steps comes the role of the anticipated strike by the mujahidin that will make the United States yield or break its will and leave its agents so that the mujahidin can settle accounts with the allies of the United States, both in the West and the "peaceful" Muslim countries.
"The brothers (Muslim) from the victorious community are required:
1. To be sincere in your devotion to Allah the Exalted and know that victory is at the doors...
2. To form small organizations under different names, like Monotheism and Jihad Group, the Abu-Hafs al-Masri Brigades, etc. This will make it difficult for the enemy to discover and hunt them down and will scatter the security organs' efforts.
3. To learn jihad on the basis of the Shari'ah (Muslim law).
4. To undergo physical and military training, and to spread this among the sons, relatives, clans those who will come next because the battle will be long.
5. To learn modern skills like computers, the Internet, and anything that is of use...
6. To ignite a psychological war against the enemy."
The nation (Islam) is required to pray for the mujahidin and support them morally and financially. They are required to establish small cells inside and outside the cities and shelter them. They say: "Therefore, when ye meet the unbelievers [in fight], smite them at their necks; at length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly [on them] thereafter [is the time] either generosity or ransom."
A message to Sheik Usama bin Laden and those with him:
"…along the course we are continuing, determined to fight, and wishing [to meet] our Allah. It is perseverance until death, Allah willing."
A message to the martyrs:
"Among the believers are men who have been true to their covenant with Allah… Your chaste bodies pave the road of jihad… Our dead are in paradise and their dead are in hell."
The strategy with the enemy (U.S.A.) is:
"Allah the Exalted and Sublime says: 'O ye who believe, persevere in patience and constancy; vie in such perseverance; strengthen each other; and fear Allah; that ye may prosper.'"
Summary:
"The Americans, Jews, and the Crusader West are our enemies, and they are combatants. They must be killed wherever they are caught. Arabs and Muslims who support them are considered to be like them and must be killed because they are apostates."
From the sayings of mujahid Sheik Abdallah Azzam: "O preachers of Islam, seek death and [everlasting] life will be given to you."
A final translation by FBIS:
"Let Muslims be assured that the strike is coming to the United States like the morning dawn, but at the proper place and time for the mujahidin. We will obtain victory..."
