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| Euros struggling to thwart next terrorist attack |
| 2006-05-30 |
| I question a lot of this "no direct links" stuff, incidentally. The group that carried out the 3/11 attack was part of the same North African jihadi network that was involved in the Casablanca attacks and had done a lot of logistics work on the side for mujahideen in Chechnya, Iraq, and Bosnia, to say nothing of their ties to Yarkas and the 9/11 attacks. As for the 7/7 bombings, the UK authorities want to claim there wasn't any direct connection to organized groups as an excuse to keep them from cleaning up Londonistan or going after the LeT. In each case, the governments probably believe that they are delaying action until they're ready and preventing panic, but what they're actually doing, ironically enough, is providing more than ample fodder to anyone who wants to argue that all Muslims are actual if not potential security threats and should be viewed as such by the authorities, though I doubt such thoughts have crossed their minds at this point. European intelligence networks have thrown a blanket of surveillance over a small but fiercely violent cast of Islamic militants, many homegrown with no direct links to al-Qaida, whose fingerprints they expect to find on the Continent's next big terrorist attack. Senior security officials across Europe warned in interviews with The Associated Press that the relative ease and low cost of an attack, combined with the anger and isolation felt by Muslim populations, mean more bloodshed is almost inevitable. The officials painted a picture of a diverse group of militants with competing agendas, vastly different social and educational backgrounds and a litany of gripes that makes it difficult to predict their next move. While they may be motivated by Osama bin Laden's call for worldwide jihad, they mostly operate independently of al-Qaida's leadership, the officials said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 This requires a paradigm change: there is no right to live there for those who wish to undermine the native culture and laws. Those being watched who are in the country illegally should be summarily deported as undesirable aliens, along with their dependents; those there legally on temporary or long term visas as resident aliens, should be summarily returned to their place of origin -- or their estimated place of origin (based on physical appearance, accent, etc) for breaking the terms of their visa, along with their dependents. Those who have taken citizenship under what are obviously false pretenses, should have that citizenship revoked, then be deported to their country of previous citizenship, along with all naturalized dependents and subsequent offspring; native-born spouses should be given a choice to join the deportee in exile, or to remain, with the understanding that there will be no dole beyond the first year, to enable them to make the transition to being self-supporting -- it takes no education or job skills to obtain employment scrubbing floors. Finally, those being watched who are native-born should be jailed for conspiracy to commit terror. Much will be revealed about the terror cells and the overall structure as they scramble to replace those taken from them, on the one hand, and the morale of those remaining will suffer as they think of being cast out of their state-supported Eden on account of their nefarious activities, however noble and Lion of Islam-y they may be. Not that this will happen, either over there or as much as needed on this side of the pond. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-05-30 08:46 |
| #1 The last time I heard we (the Brits) hadn't interrogated the returned Egyptian chemistry PhD student affiliated to the London group... hmmmmn, looks like a 'serious' investigation to me. I hope they blow parliament to tiny bits next time - then something may be done i.e. sensitivities to certain communities being overridden. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2006-05-30 08:03 |