Friday, November 27, 2009

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Where the Terrorism Threat From al Qaeda Is Headed

The deadly assault in Mumbai was a chilling reminder of just how effective low-tech attacks can be

Posted January 12, 2009

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JL of CA: "Tell Pakistani people in a US generated broadcast that if they so much as touch another country again, it will be nuclear war and they will ALL die."

Comments like that make you a one-person ad campaign for the importance of restricting the right to vote. "One man, one vote" is fatal to a nation if half the population is ignorant.

What have we learned about al Queda and international terrorism?

Al Queda bombed the WTC in 1996, crashed jets into WTC in 2001 and have been behind other incidents of international terrorism. What have we learned? We have learned they are resilient and their popularity is growing as they adapt techology to spread their extremist violent views as recruitment tools in the Islamic world. And we haven't figured out how to counter that. Do we have any significant propaganda program with outreach to the world's Islamic youth to offer them positive alternatives to wanting to kill Americans and Jews? If so, what are the websites? And if we have websites, do they look like western pro-American sites (thus anti-Islamic in their view) or do they look like Islamic sites that send counter-terrorism messages of hope and not destruction? What have we learned from history, and why don't our plans seem to work very well, neither the War in Afghanistan or in cyberspace or on the ground with mullahs and schools seem to carry a positive message of peace and not weapons. What's wrong here?

Al Qaeda

Why would anyone attack us now ? OBAMA is our president and the whole world loves us , RIGHT, all we had to do was get rid of that mean ole BUSH. Everyone Loves us now and flowers are falling from the sky.

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