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<![CDATA[John Robb’s Weblog: Jamestown on new guerrilla activity in Kuwait.  If there are any immediate lessons to derive from the attacks, they are that the fears of the spillover effect from the conflict in Iraq appear to have been corroborated by the confessions of captives to have reached the Emirate from Fallujah and Ramadi; that […]

<![CDATA[John Robb’s Weblog:
Jamestown on new guerrilla activity in Kuwait.  If there are any immediate lessons to derive from the attacks, they are that the fears of the spillover effect from the conflict in Iraq appear to have been corroborated by the confessions of captives to have reached the Emirate from Fallujah and Ramadi; that the commonly held linkage between lack of democracy and the rise of terrorism is not operative the Kuwaiti system, with an elected parliament and a free press, is representative and responsive to the public mood; and that the common jihadist ideological factor (at present expressed through the slogan to “expel the polytheists from the peninsula”) has the potential to override any obstacles put in the way by national identities in the Gulf region. As this issue’s article on Oman shows, it may even override doctrinal differences. Islamist terrorism looks set to creep down the Gulf coast in waves]]>