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
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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.
Pakistan needs to be cleaned out
Unleash India on them. There doesnt seem to be very many moderate people in this hotbed of terrorism. It is headed toward being a failed state with nuclear weapons. I don't think anything the rest of the world does will stop these fanatics from eventually launching a nuclear war. India should have the US come in with special ops forces backed up by bunker buster bombs and take out the underground pakistani bunkers where the atomic weapons are stored. 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.
Where terrorism is headed
Expand the "right-to-carry" and teach law abiding citizens how to defend themselves. The only people bringing weapons to "gun free zones" are terrorists and criminals. Let's grow some cajones.
Pakistan Tribal Areas are not the only threat
Americans are peddled silly myths by the so called experts that the ----tribal areas---- bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan are the source of threat for USA. This is a grave under estimation of the Pakistan problem.
What about the rest of "Pakistan" ? Daniel Pearl was beheaded not in the tribal areas, but in Karachi.
Karachi has been the coordinating city, nerve center for all Pakistani terrorist operations. The terrorist "charity" recently banned by the UN is based out of Punjab province, not in tribal areas. Major terrorist training camps are run throughout Punjab province and in Occupied Kashmir.
Pakis tell the drone attacks by US army are very unpopular in "Pakistan". But let's look at what type of activities are very popular in "Pakistan".
India has just released phone conversations of pakistani terrorists in Mumbai talking to the Pak army handlers in Karachi directing them who to kill, when to kill, etc.
" I have a Singaporean, Chinese and Belgian". Pak army handler at the other end in Karachi says kill them but spare the two muslims.
Think about this. This type of activity is very popular in "Pakistan" unlike the drone attacks. Why should the civilized world put up with this type of nonsense?
Soon afer the Mumbai terrorist attacks, jihadi terrorist outfits met with the Pak army at the GHQ at publicly declared their support for Pak army.
US should stop giving military aid to "Pakistan". Thinking Pak army will fight Taliban is fantasy. It ain't going to happen. It is for the American ppl to decide how much money and lives they want to spend on this drama.
