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Former ISI chief says Al Qaeda is a superpower

Lt Gen Asad Durrani, a former ISI chief, has also served as Pakistan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He contends that Al Qaeda is a global superpower at loggerheads with the United States and Pakistan is caught in the cusp between the two.

This is an archived blog post from The Acorn.

And since we do believe that it is the Al-Qaeda that can do damage far and wide, it seems reasonable to admit it as a superpower: amorphous, elusive, almost ethereal; but a superpower all the same. There is also so much common that it has with the United States.

Only these two seem to have a universal agenda. Only they can act unilaterally on the world stage. Both are making us do U-turns. Between them they have changed regimes and are rearing to change some more. Both threaten the rest of us to be with them or else! Being with Al-Qaeda may be dangerous; being a friend of America, according to Henry Kissinger, fatal. [South Asia Tribune/Nation]This reiterates my contention that battle lines across the world are being seen as being drawn between the United States and Al Qaeda.

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