http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/05/exploiting_alqaidas_weaknesses...
May 02, 2007
Exploiting Al-Qaida's Weaknesses
By Austin Bay
In February 2004, Iraqi and coalition intelligence intercepted a message
to al-Qaida's "senior leaders." Written by al-Qaida's Iraqi commander, the
now-deceased Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the letter outlined al-Qaida's last
ditch "surge" plan for defeating democracy in Iraq and avoiding what it
saw as a looming, devastating defeat for its totalitarian theology.
Zarqawi's letter lamented al-Qaida's "failure to enlist support" in Iraq
and "to scare the Americans into leaving." After Iraqis run their own
government, Zarqawi wrote, "the sons of this land will be the authority.
... This is the democracy. We will have no pretexts."