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Terror Networks
US sees threat from al-Qaeda’s second generation
2004-01-23
A U.S. anti-terrorism envoy said on Thursday that while two-thirds of known al Qaeda leaders had been captured or killed, a new generation of militants was the next area of concern.
Yes. It's the junior varsity...
Ambassador J. Cofer Black, U.S. State Department coordinator for counterterrorism, said the al Qaeda that masterminded the September 11 attacks had been severely weakened by the U.S.-led war on terrorism. "The al Qaeda of the 9/11 period is under catastrophic stress. They are being hunted down," he told the BBC. Repeating comments made by U.S. President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address this week, Black said two-thirds of the al Qaeda leadership had been "arrested, detained or otherwise put out of business".
That means they were zapped.
But he warned that young cannon fodder militants were still being drawn to the network headed by Osama bin Laden. "The next group of concern would be — I would say — a generation younger," he said, adding that the new generation tended "to be long on radicalism compared with short on training". Security analysts say the U.S.-declared war on terror has damaged al Qaeda, but some say it is too soon to proclaim that Washington is winning the struggle.
Why not? It hasn't been too soon to proclaim we've been losing...
But Black said relentless pressure from intelligence agencies was making it more difficult for al Qaeda to strike. "It is an organisation under stress," he said. "They spend more time worrying about their own operational security... which makes them less able to launch attacks."
Posted by:Dan Darling

#8  Al-Aska Paul - QED
Posted by: Frank G   2004-1-23 9:55:53 PM  

#7  The only way to stop the junior jihadis is to stop their indoctrination, and to do that is to shut down the madrassas. To shut down the madrasses, the funding by fundos has to stop, and that path leads back to Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-1-23 3:27:08 PM  

#6  A U.S. anti-terrorism envoy said on Thursday that while two-thirds of known al Qaeda leaders had been captured or killed, a new generation of militants was the next area of concern.

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"The next group of concern would be — I would say — a generation younger," he said, adding that the new generation tended "to be long on radicalism compared with short on training".

No problem, these junior jihadis will have to be wiped out too. Since they have little training, they'll simply be a bit easier to bag.

Rivrdog, such a comment would convince the Islamic world that this is a crusade against them just as Bin Laden says.

Only if ALL Muslims are jihadis. Are they?
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-1-23 2:44:56 PM  

#5  "— a generation younger," he said, adding that the new generation tended "to be long on radicalism compared with short on training".

Until we clean up the madrassas, they will just keep getting younger and less trained until they are just a bunch of 8 year olds throwing rocks and willing to strap on a suicide belt or carry a bomb that anyone disgruntled group/state is willing to finance.
Posted by: B   2004-1-23 10:33:18 AM  

#4  Rivrdog, such a comment would convince the Islamic world that this is a crusade against them just as Bin Laden says.

Better for Phase 3 to be serious pressure on Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to cleanup their act and shut down support and madrasses; Pressure on Syria to pull a Libya; Support for democracy in Iran to overthrow the government.
Posted by: ruprecht   2004-1-23 10:18:25 AM  

#3  Jihadism is fairly recent to Islam

No, it isn't. Mohammed himself led the first jihads, and jihad is what carried Islam into the Iberian peninsula and to India. The only new thing about jihad is the spin that it means "internal struggle"; all of the major schools of Islamic study declare jihad to mean war to spread the faith.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-1-23 7:03:27 AM  

#2  I hope at some point soon Bush makes the final link, and declares ALL Jihadiis to be our enemies. That will present a stark choice for Islam: either disown the Jihadiis or face selective attacks from the US. Personally, since Jihadism is fairly recent to Islam, I think that there is still time for it's followers to reject it and purge their own ranks. Not much time, though, because soon the rest of the world will decide that they, too have failed to act agressively enough in the face of this culture war.
Posted by: Rivrdog   2004-1-23 2:08:46 AM  

#1  Idiots are pissed that the US isn't cooperating with the Jihad. Fucj=k your jihad. And fucj=k mo.
Posted by: Lucky   2004-1-23 1:25:53 AM  

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