In recent communiqués that have received scant attention from Western analysts, the successors of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi at the helm of al-Qaida in Iraq claim to have deployed highly trained explosives teams outside Iraq and state that "good news"? is expected to be forthcoming from these terrorist cells very soon.

The messages, posted in Arabic-language Internet chatrooms frequented by al-Qaida representatives and supporters, suggest that initial terrorist forays into Jordan and Lebanon last year by al-Qaida in Iraq were part of a deliberate and continuing strategy of expanding their jihad into Iraq's susceptible neighbors.

What are these people's goals? Why do they want to spread terror all across the globe? Is it purely religious? Are they that bent on taking out anyone who doesn't think their way? How do you stop that kind of thinking?

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