” ‘The waves of the fierce crusader campaign against the Islamic world have broken on the rock of the mujahideen and have reached a dead end in Iraq and Afghanistan,’ a spokesman for the newly proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq said on November 29, 2006. ‘For the first time since the fall of the Ottoman caliphate in the past century, the region is witnessing the revival of Islamic caliphates.’ “
– Foreign Affairs, The U.S. vs. al Qaeda, Page 193