Has Osama given up?

Geopolitical expert: Message to Zarqawi amounts to surrender

Osama bin Laden's recent message to colleague Abu Musab al-Zarqawi asking him to launch attacks on U.S. soil represents the surrender of the terror leader, says a leading geopolitical expert.

In a column on his intelligence website, To the Point, Dr. Jack Wheeler says the war on terrorism may have been won on March 1, when U.S. intelligence announced it had intercepted bin Laden's message to the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.


"The media went into a tizzy, bombarding Homeland Security officials with demands as to how they were going to protect us from this latest threat. And maybe there is a threat. Far more likely it's an announcement of surrender," writes Wheeler.

On his site, dubbed "the oasis for rational conservatives," Wheeler then translates bin Laden's Arabic message "into plain English":

"Dear Abu. I'm afraid I must announce to the world that, as a pitiful schmuck hiding in a mountain cave, I am powerless to organize or conduct any more terrorist attacks on the Great Satan of America. Can you do anything? I know you're being hunted down in every mud-hole in Iraq right now, and it might be a little difficult for you to make your way undetected to the U.S., create your own terrorist network since mine obviously no longer functions, and start your own terrorist war there � but do your best, OK? I am depending on you, since our Islamofascist brothers can no longer depend on me. Yours, Osama."

Wheeler says nearly a year ago he pointed out in a column: "It's entirely possible that the War on Muslim Terrorism could be won quickly," stating that in 1984 he began making speeches predicting the imminent fall of the Soviet Union, which at the time was thought to be a far-off development.

Concludes Wheeler: "Osama's plea to Zarqawi is a signal of hopelessness. It is part of the tectonic shift taking place throughout the Muslim world since the re-election of George W. Bush. The great hope of the terrorists was his defeat. Kerry would have postponed the elections in Iraq, giving hope to Zarqawi that he could win, and perhaps even started negotiating with al-Qaida. Now, despite Zarqawi's lashing out with suicide bombers blowing up Iraqis, the war in Iraq is all but won."