No fewer than 18 organizations are loosely affiliated with al Qaeda and are conducting terrorist attacks across the world, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday.
| Lemme see, here... That'd be GSPC, Moroccan Salafi Jihad, or whatever they're calling themselves this week, the Taliban, al-Qaeda in Iraq, Jemaah Islamiyah... |
In the war on terrorism, the enemy was not a nation and not even one particular organization, Rumsfeld said at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
| ... al-Tawhid, assuming it's still a distinct organization. That's a half dozen. TNSM, Jaish-e-Mohammad, and Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakland. That's half the list. |
"No fewer than 18 organizations loosely affiliated with al Qaeda are conducting terrorist acts in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Somalia, Algeria, Russia, Indonesia and elsewhere," he said.
| ... al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Chechens, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Ansar al-Sunnah, al-Ittehad, assuming it hasn't fallen apart like the rest of Somalia. There's a separate Qaeda organization in Yemen, descended from the Aden-Abyan Islamic Armmy, and another in Turkey, descended from the Great Eastern Psychopathic Raiders Front. That's 16. |
The defense secretary warned that despite progress made in fighting terrorism, the threat today might be greater than ever before because the weapons available were far more dangerous.
| The Dinnieh group in Lebanon as probably been absorbed into another Zark front, which'd be 17... |
He said the anti-terrorism war, the enemy, while weakened and under great pressure, was still "capable of global reach" and still trying to do kill Americans with increasingly powerful weapons.
| Lashkar-e-Jhangvi makes 18, and SSP would make 19, assuming it's actually a separate organization from LJ, which it really isn't. |
The U.S. strategy was to prevent the enemy from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, improve homeland defense and intelligence gathering and help friendly nations enhance their capabilities to fight terrorism in their own countries, he said.
| Then there's JMB in Bangladesh. That'd be an honest 19, with JMJB added to the list but the number still now growing because they're the same anuses as JMB. Hmmm... They're right. It is only 18 or 19. There are so many false nose and moustache organizations, and so many similar organizations that aren't actually affiliated with al-Qaeda, and so many front organizations and support organizations, that it seems like there's more. |
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