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 Al-Qaida Making MergersPosted on Apr 21, 2007Despite U.S. efforts to quash al-Qaida, the terrorist organization is rebuilding its base in rural Pakistan—and doing some serious networking to connect with other militant groups in Africa and the Middle East, steering them to focus on Western targets on a local and international scale.
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By Douglas Chalmers, April 22, 2007 at 6:17 pm #
Kol Klink - “...none of our sixteen intelligence agencies with their fifty billion dollar budget can find a six foot four inch Saudi Arabian...”
Well, the Arab guy I saw at Halim international airport in Jakarta, Indonesia in the early 1980’s certainly stood out - even though he was there with a number of well-wishers. He didn’t make that height, though, but with his spotless white robes, head-dress and black beard and intelligent eyes he could have very much been the young Osama Bin Laden.
Report thisBy Kol Klink, April 22, 2007 at 7:20 am #
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I find it incredable that none of our sixteen intelligence agencies with their fifty billion dollar budget can find a six foot four inch Saudi Arabian that has a fifty million dollar bounty on his head.
Report thisBin Laden is probably the tallest Saudi in the world so he would tend to stand out one would think.
Perhaps Bin Laden, Zawahiri, and the entire Al Queda organization is a construct of the CIA and MOSSAD? Or, perhaps they really dont want to find these guys and put them on trial because of what they might reveal?
By Spinoza, April 22, 2007 at 7:03 am #
I don’t know if right wingers are more stupid than evil.
Their belief in militarism only begets more violent opposition.
This violence in turn only begets more violence and so on.
That does not mean that peaceful means will work. There are some personalities that meet everything with violence. These are the school yard bullies and those in fraternities that have joy in violent “hazing”. It is quite clear that George Bush, for example, enjoys capital punishment. Actually most people have a violent streak in them but some have a more violent streak than others. No matter how contradictory it seems those with a less violent streak have to stop those with a greater violent streak even if it means killing them. Let us imagine that everyone who supports capital punishment were killed. What would be the net effect on world society? Could you imagine that we would be living in a less violent world? In our culture nice guys finish last. What if we changed such “rules”, turned them around, so that nice guys were winners. Would the world be a better place?
How can we stop the violent prone from being so violent? What methods will work? To my view we need to combine the revolutionary ardor of Che with the revolutionary ardor of Gandhi. Combining opposites might work.
Report thisBy vanjejo, April 22, 2007 at 3:27 am #
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Great -
Now we have given them a bonding factor -
plus we have inflamed most countries that USE to support us and now see our actions as conductive to empowering terrorism.
These sects use to repress each other with their division - now they have a common focus. U.S. Imperialism for oil in the middle east.
Report thisBy QuyTran, April 21, 2007 at 12:23 pm #
Bush/Cheney’s war plans not only lost in Iraq but everywhere in this globe due to their stupidity of using lowest classes of inner circles.
Congratulations !
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, April 21, 2007 at 12:17 pm #
“...It is too early to say whether last weeks attacks were influenced by al-Qaeda central...”
Al Qaeda ‘central’? You’ve got to be joking! That was their whole strength - they never did have a ‘head office’ or a ‘CEO’, not even Bin Laden.
When the USA attacked Afghanistan, they simply ended up using the mountains of the region as a bombing range for target practice. There never were any Al Qaeda bases there - they only killed a few shepherds!
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