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Britain
Al-Qaeda never went away
2009-12-28
How clever of The Times to notice.
While al-QaedaÂ’s structure may have been shaken it has not been destroyed and it is known for its resilience and reinvention. More significantly, its ideology of intolerance and suicidal violence spreads easily via the internet and is embedded in sections of the British Muslim population, notably on many university campuses.

The ideology is today more potent than the organisation and there are still a significant number of people in Britain who want to put it into practice here or overseas. Al-Qaeda and its mindset remain a danger.
Posted by:lotp

#3  So the "Religions of Peace" coinage by Bush and ObamaÂ’s world apology tour didnÂ’t work?
Posted by: Jack Salami   2009-12-28 16:21  

#2  The article's headline reads: Our false sense of security should end here: al-Qaeda never went away
--- What false sense of security? Every morning since 9/11 I turn on the TV to see if there are any banner headlines running of another atrocity. If I am out in the boonies as I was on 7/7, I tune my satellite radio to the news channels.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2009-12-28 15:18  

#1  Seen this before - Clinton treated Al-Qaeda attackes - the '93 WTC bombing, the Khobar Towers, the USS Cole, the Bojinka plot, the embassy bombings as problems for law enforcement. And that led up to 9/11.

Prior to 9/11, that might be excused as naïveté (though I'd call it stupidity). Post 9/11, it smacks of criminal negligence.

Posted by: DMFD   2009-12-28 00:41  

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