ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Since 1999, David Malone has been independently researching Osama bin Laden and publicly advocating the aggressive isolation and destruction of Al Qaeda. David's thesis about Bin Laden's messiah pretension and Al Qaeda's crusader baiting represents a unique assimilation of publicly available information, including thousands of mainstream news articles, scholarly essays, film documentaries and policy documents, and selected books.
This theory about Al Qaeda's war strategy has been proven over and over again by the unfolding events of the 9/11 War, particularly Al Qaeda's success at provoking the Bush Administration to squander America's good will and capital in wars in the Middle East. Similar to the work of famous anti-Al Qaeda activists like the FBI's John O'Neill and the NSC's Richard Clarke, as well as that of lesser known intelligence agents, David's writings have accurately anticipated some of the major events of Bin Laden's war.
David's successful record of war forecasting is based on a trends analysis that attempts to answer the following two questions: 1) What would Al Qaeda's high command do next if its ultimate goal were to portray the megalomaniacal Osama as the awaited millennial Muslim Messiah of the Apocalypse*?, 2) How would the Bush Administration react to Al Qaeda's "crusader-baiting" provocations?
Regarding the most noteworthy of these accurate forecasts, the 9/11 attack, David specifically warned as early as 1999 that Bin Laden would start World War III with a catastrophic terrorist attack on Washington, D.C. and the Wall Street district of New York in 2001. David's trends analysis further anticipated that this unprecedented terrorist attack would provoke the successive American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq (view original prediction in MSWord - Story3.doc (300K)).
The prediction of the 9/11 War was derived primarily from a trends analysis that included (1) Al Qaeda's public statements threatening the seats of American power in NY and Washington following President Clinton's botched cruise missile attack in 1998, (2) Bin Laden's pre-9/11 warpath, including the trend towards an escalating size, sophistication, symbolic importance and directness of attacks on America, as well as the trend towards more audacious attempts to provoke America into invading Afghanistan and Iraq, (3) Bin Laden's millennial Messiah pretension, which requires that he initiate a "righteous" global war to destroy his "Great Satan" adversary at the start of the millennium, in the year 2001, and (4) the belligerent disposition of the neo-conservative Bush Administration toward Iraq.
Currently, David is warning about Al Qaeda's active campaign to provoke the American invasions of Iran and Pakistan. This plot includes a bid to intervene on the eve of the 2008 U.S. presidential election in order to sway Americans into ratifying once again the Bush war doctrine and continuing to facilitate Al Qaeda's "crusader-baiting" grand strategy.
The majority of David's forecasts about Bin Laden's war have come true. This successful record of accurately anticipating the unfolding of Bin Laden's plan most powerfully affirms the credibility of David's trends analysis.
Aside from these more notable accomplishments, David Malone has distinguished himself in scholarly pursuits throughout his life. As a student who was consistently at the top of his class academically in grades K-12, David proceeded to graduate from a prestigious New England preparatory school with Cum Laude status. High scores on Advanced Placement examinations allowed David to begin college with the credit status of a sophomore at the highly regarded University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
David began to prepare for a career in natural resource economics, a study that interested David because of the substantial risk of a global nuclear war arising from the inequitable distribution and development of natural resources, especially oil. David viewed this as the most significant menace to humanity's future, like a meteor on course to hit the Earth in 15 years, compelling an attempt to help save us. Specifically, David hoped to assist the global movement for sustainable human development, as envisioned by the Earth Charter (earthcharter.org).
The rise of Bin Laden in 1998 as the personification of the looming apocalyptic risk shifted David's attention to the study of Al Qaeda, including the possibility of defeating this terrorist empire through a Manhattan-Project-like initiative to solve sustainably the global energy crisis. After having completed a year of college, David left a promising career in natural resource economics to pursue exclusively an independent study of the Al Qaeda threat in 1999. From this point on, David devoted his talents and resources to understanding Al Qaeda and fighting the global war against this menace on the primary battlefield, the ideological front.
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* The millennial Muslim Messiah of the Apocalypse is a mythological Saudi Arabian warlord who makes war against a belligerent "Great Satan" empire at the start of the third millennium He proceeds to defeat this crusading superpower a decade later and begin a reign of world domination, during which he converts humanity to his vision of Islam.
Contact dtmalone2005@yahoo.com